Published on: 2025-06-04 09:39:00
Tesla has filed trademark applications for the term “Tesla Robotaxi,” after the company’s previous attempts to secure trademarks for its planned self-driving vehicle service hit roadblocks. The company originally applied in October 2024 for the trademark of the words “Robotaxi” and “Cybercab.” The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) told the company last month it needed more detail in order to allow a trademark for “Robotaxi,” a term that is used by a number of other companies lik
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Outrage in Kenya over detention of software developer Mass protests broke out last year after the government proposed tax hikes, forcing President William Ruto to withdraw the 2024 finance bill. Police and the government have not yet commented on the detention of the mother of two. Rose Njeri was detained on Friday after police raided her home in the capital, Nairobi, and seized electronic devises, activists said. Kenyans have expressed outrage over the detention of a software developer who
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It’s been a long time coming for Tesla’s robotaxi, but it looks like the company’s first truly driverless vehicle may be ready for a road test. According to Bloomberg, Tesla is set to reveal its robotaxi as soon as June 12, which—if you have a calendar and/or a cursory concept of time and space—you may note is pretty damn soon. While that reveal may be around the corner, the journey for Tesla’s robotaxi to become a real thing you can plant your butt in has been long and winding. Elon Musk—and th
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US green energy firms brace for federal funding cuts 57 minutes ago Share Save Zoe Corbyn Technology Reporter Reporting from San Francisco Share Save Getty Images President Trump has described windfarms as "disgusting" and "ugly" US green fuel company HIF Global has a big vision for Texas's Matagorda County: a $7bn (£5.2bn) commercial scale e-methanol factory to supply the world market. The plant, which it claims would be the largest to date anywhere, would make e-methanol from captured carbo
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is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. In dribs and drabs, we’re starting to get a better idea of what Tesla’s robotaxi service will look like when it launches in Austin, Texas, in just a few weeks. But it’s not nearly enough given what’s at stake. The company is considering June 12th as a possible date to launch its robotaxi service in Austin, Bloomberg report
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Tesla's robotaxi service has started testing in Austin without drivers in advance of its promised June launch, according to the company. "For the past several days, Tesla has been testing self-driving Model Y cars (no on in driver's seat) on Austin public streets with no incidents," CEO Elon Musk posted on X. "A month ahead of schedule." Earlier this year, Tesla promised to launch its robotaxi service sometime in June, using an internal fleet of 10 to 20 Model Ys operating in a limited, geo-fen
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 14:00:26
The Amazon-owned robotaxi company Zoox has issued its second recall in a month following a collision that occurred in San Francisco. It has already submitted a voluntary software recall notice to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) after an internal review of the incident and has already deployed the software update to its fleet of 270 vehicles. According to the company's announcement, an unoccupied Zoox robotaxi was struck by an electric scooter after braking at an inters
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 09:00:00
This story originally appeared Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For the last two decades, homeowners have been able to claim thousands of dollars in federal tax credits to help offset the high up-front costs of going solar. Things were supposed to stay that way through 2034. But, this week, the US House of Representatives proposed abruptly ending the incentives at the end of the year. If this idea survives the House and passes the Senate, it could upend the economic calculus
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Amazon 's Zoox robotaxi unit issued a voluntary recall of its software for the second time in a month following a recent crash in San Francisco. On May 8, an unoccupied Zoox robotaxi was turning at low speed when it was struck by an electric scooter rider after braking to yield at an intersection. The person on the scooter declined medical attention after sustaining minor injuries as a result of the collision, Zoox said. "The Zoox vehicle was stopped at the time of contact," the company said i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 17:25:32
is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Once Donald Trump won office for a second time, the writing was on the wall. Trump ran on many messages, most of them confusing and contradictory, but one of his loudest and clearest messages was to end President Joe Biden’s “EV mandate.” It made no difference there never was a mandate, just a series of policies designed t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 09:27:04
There is a new accounting software in town, coming in with a fresh $17.2 million raise and a desire to shake things up. The company, Filed, hopes to automate the grunt work. “The tax industry is facing a genuine crisis,” Leroy Kerry, Filed’s co-founder CEO, told TechCrunch. Many CPAs are approaching retirement while a dwindling number of students are entering the field, he said, citing much-quoted research from a 2021 report on the topic from the Association of International Certified Professio
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is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Renewable energy has driven a manufacturing boom in the US, but that’s all at stake as Congress weighs cuts to Biden-era tax incentives. Solar, wind, and battery companies have announced plans to either create or expand 250 manufacturing facilities since August 2022. That’s w
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-26 05:47:00
Waymo and Uber will start offering robotaxi rides in Atlanta to select customers who earlier this year signed onto a waitlist. The move comes ahead of the companies’ public robotaxi launch this summer. Customers selected for early access will be notified in the Uber app and via email. Those who opt for the robotaxi rides will be encouraged to provide feedback during and after the ride. As an extra incentive, riders will receive $10 worth of Uber credits after their first Waymo ride. Atlanta is
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We're absolutely shocked. Failure to Launch As Tesla prepares for the slated June launch of its robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, there's a pretty big elephant in the room: that its autonomous driving services leave a lot to be desired. As Forbes reports, the serious safety concerns surrounding Tesla's so-called "Full Self-Driving" may result in CEO Elon Musk's robotaxi service being dead on arrival. "It's going to fail for sure," billionaire and longtime Tesla critic Dan O'Dowd told Forbes
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-28 08:53:51
This year would be the last for a 30% tax credit for home solar panels and a $7,500 credit for electric vehicles under a budget proposal introduced this week in the US House of Representatives. It's still early in what could be a lengthy and contentious process for the federal budget. The big issue is how President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers will find enough spending cuts to continue the tax cuts first passed in 2017. Under language added to the budget proposal by the House Ways and
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 01:45:40
For the last two decades, homeowners have been able to claim thousands of dollars in federal tax credits to help offset the high upfront costs of going solar. Things were supposed to stay that way through 2034. But, this week, the U.S. House of Representatives proposed abruptly ending the incentives at the end of the year. If this idea survives the House and passes the Senate, it could upend the economic calculus of powering your home with the sun. “It would put solar out of reach for millions
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Archer has been selected as the official air taxi provider for the 2028 LA Olympic and Paralympic Games. If everything falls into place (a very big "if"), the company's Midnight eVTOL aircraft will transport VIPs, fans and stakeholders to and from key venues, while also providing support for emergency services and security, Archer wrote in a press release. Archer is one of the more serious players in the fledgling air taxi arena, being one of just two companies along with Joby Aviation to recei
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Tesla has reportedly yet to start testing its robotaxi service in Austin without a safety driver behind the wheel – just weeks before the planned launch. For months now, Tesla and CEO Elon Musk have been hyping the launch of “Tesla Robotaxi”, a Uber-like ride-hailing service powered by autonomous Tesla vehicles, starting with a launch in Austin, Texas in June. We have extensively reported that this launch is disappointing compared to what Tesla promised for years: that all its consumer vehicle
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-03 08:41:18
Direct File allows taxpayers to file their returns directly to the agency for free. IRS/CNET IRS Direct File has been in the crosshairs of the second Trump administration for the past few months, but the latest details of the GOP's budget proposal have made its potential demise a lot more concrete. Direct File is an online program offered by the IRS that lets you file your income tax returns directly to the agency for free, instead of paying for an accountant or paid tax service like H&R Block
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Waymo issued a software recall on 1,200 self-driving vehicles after some of its robotaxis were involved in minor collisions with gates, chains, and other gate-like roadway objects. The software update, which was first reported by Reuters, was conducted late last year, according to documents filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The Alphabet-owned company said in the document that Waymo’s Safety Board decided to conduct a recall to that specific version of driverless sof
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This year would be the last for a 30% tax credit for home solar panels and a $7,500 credit for electric vehicles if a proposal introduced in the US House of Representatives this week passes. It's still early in what could be a lengthy and contentious process for the federal budget. The big issue is how President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers will find enough spending cuts to continue the tax cuts first passed in 2017. Under language added to the budget proposal by the House Ways and Me
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More than 70% of Baidu Apollo Go robotaxi rides in Wuhan were fully driverless as of April, and the company said in May it expected 100% of the rides to be completely autonomous in coming quarters. BEIJING — Chinese tech company Baidu 's Apollo Go robotaxi business plans to expand to Europe this year, according to a source familiar with the matter. Over the coming months, Apollo Go plans to open an entity in Switzerland and launch operations locally and in Turkey, said the source, who could on
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This year would be the last for a 30% tax credit for home solar panels and a $7,500 credit for electric vehicles if a proposal introduced in the US House of Representatives this week passes. It's still early in what could be a lengthy and contentious process for the federal budget. The big issue is how President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers will find enough spending to cut to continue the tax cuts first passed in 2017. Several tax credits created or expanded in the 2022 Inflation Redu
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Republican leadership in the Ways and Means committee of the U.S. House of Representatives released Monday night a draft of a reconciliation bill that seeks to undo much of the Inflation Reduction Act. The landmark 2022 law implemented a range of incentives that spurred the production of clean energy, electric vehicles, carbon capture, and battery storage. Since the IRA was enacted, the law has spurred more than $275 billion in private investment in the United States. House Republicans’ axe ha
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Federal safety investigators have sent Tesla a detailed list of questions on its upcoming robotaxi service as part of an investigation into how the company’s “Full Self-Driving (Supervised)” software operates in low-visibility conditions. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Office of Defects Investigation wants the additional information about Full Self-Driving (Supervised) — or “FSD” — in order to “understand how Tesla plans to evaluate its vehicles and driving automation tech
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-10 03:09:45
Here’s the elephant in the room: Sorbet’s syntax is ugly. When people start complaining about Sorbet’s syntax, I have to spend a lot of time deflecting or even defending it, which is annoying: I’m right there with you, the syntax is ugly! It’s verbose. It’s foreign. It doesn’t resemble any typed language, nor does it complement Ruby’s unique style. My counter is that when it comes to language design, semantics—what the types mean—are easily 10 times more important than syntax. This is what I w
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Here’s the elephant in the room: Sorbet’s syntax is ugly. When people start complaining about Sorbet’s syntax, I have to spend a lot of time deflecting or even defending it, which is annoying: I’m right there with you, the syntax is ugly! It’s verbose. It’s foreign. It doesn’t resemble any typed language, nor does it complement Ruby’s unique style. My counter is that when it comes to language design, semantics—what the types mean—are easily 10 times more important than syntax. This is what I w
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The US Patent and Trademark Office has refused one of Tesla's initial attempts to trademark the term "Robotaxi" because it believes the name is generic and already in use by other companies, according to a filing spotted by TechCrunch. Tesla was hoping to trademark the term in connection to its planned self-driving car service, but now it'll have to reply with more evidence to change the office's mind. The main issue outlined in the USPTO decision is that "Robotaxi" is "merely descriptive," as
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 09:12:14
is a news writer fond of the electric vehicle lifestyle and things that plug in via USB-C. He spent over 15 years in IT support before joining The Verge. Amazon-owned Zoox says it issued a software recall for all 270 of its vehicles after an unoccupied robotaxi in Las Vegas crashed into a passenger vehicle on April 8th, Reuters reports. The update rolled out between April 16th and 17th to address a risky situation that could arise when the vehicle operating at over 40mph closed in on another ve
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is a senior tech and policy editor focused on VR, online platforms, and free expression. Adi has covered video games, biohacking, and more for The Verge since 2011. President Donald Trump says his administration will institute high tariffs on movies that fit the nebulous category of “produced in foreign lands,” a definition that could include anything from anime to the latest Marvel films. In a Sunday evening Truth Social post, Trump claimed that “Other Countries are offering all sorts of ince
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