GM’s Cruise Rethinks Its Robotaxi Strategy After Admitting a Software Fault in Gruesome Crash

In August 2016, WIRED visited the San Francisco offices of a young startup recently snapped up by a surprising buyer. General Motors acquired three-year-old Cruise for a reported $1 billion in hopes the straitlaced Detroit automaker could coopt the self-driving technology tipped to disrupt the auto industry. Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt—a scrappy Twitch cofounder who … Read more

A bus carrying dozens of schoolchildren overturns in northwest England, seriously injuring 1 person

A bus carrying dozens of school children has overturned on a highway near Liverpool on Friday ByThe Associated Press September 29, 2023, 8:23 AM LONDON — A bus carrying dozens of schoolchildren overturned on a highway near Liverpool on Friday, seriously injuring one person and causing a local hospital to declare a major incident as … Read more

The Cities With the World’s Fastest and Slowest Traffic

A nine-mile trip from the airport in Dhaka, the bustling capital of Bangladesh, to Justice Shahabuddin Ahmed Park, near downtown, can take as long as 55 minutes, according to Google Maps. A trip of the same distance in Flint, Michigan, from the airport to the Sloan Museum of Discovery, takes about nine minutes. While we … Read more

Police militias used to fight Brazil’s gangs. Now they extort, traffic and kill, too.

Comment on this storyComment NOVA IGUAÇU, Brazil — For years, police in Rio de Janeiro state have waged a bloody and expensive campaign against the gangs that dominate many of its impoverished favelas. But all the violence and effort, prosecutors and analysts say, has missed the most pressing security challenge confronting this notoriously turbulent region: … Read more

London’s Gatwick Airport limits flights this week due to staff illness, including COVID-19

Gatwick Airport, London’s second-busiest, is limiting flights this week, partly because of an outbreak of COVID-19 within air traffic control ByThe Associated Press September 26, 2023, 7:07 AM FILE – Passengers walk into the Departures entrance at the North Terminal of Gatwick Airport near Crawley, just south of London, Wednesday, July 22, 2020. Gatwick Airport, … Read more

‘Petty’ Prince William ‘stopping traffic’: ‘Game, set, match’

‘Petty jealousies’ Prince William ‘stopping traffic’: ‘Game, set, match’ Experts have just referenced Prince William’s ability to stop traffic in spite of Prince Harry’s attempts to paint a worse picture. Insights into this have been brought to light by royal commentator Daniela Elser. She weighed in on all these things, in a piece for News.com.au. … Read more

Netflix ends a three-year authorized dispute over Squid Sport visitors

The lawsuits began as a result of SK Broadband needed Netflix to assist cowl the expense of partially Squid Sport-induced will increase in streaming visitors in South Korea. A South Korean court docket stated Netflix is obligated to pay for the elevated community calls for. SK estimated the favored present had price it an additional … Read more

UK flights resume after air visitors management ‘technical challenge’ causes vacation delays

Virgin Atlantic Airways Airbus A350-1000 plane seen taxiing in entrance of the air visitors management tower at London Heathrow airport in U.Okay. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Photographs The U.Okay.’s air visitors management supplier stated Monday that it had “recognized and remedied” an earlier technical challenge which noticed flights throughout the nation disrupted. In a … Read more

Russia reviews intercepting a missile over annexed Crimea and briefly halts visitors on key bridge

Russian-installed authorities within the Crimean peninsula on Sunday reported capturing down a cruise missile close to town of Kerch and briefly suspending visitors on the Kerch bridge that hyperlinks the annexed territory to Russia. The Moscow-appointed governor of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, mentioned the interception of the missile by Russian air defenses did not end in … Read more