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Waymo finally let a reporter ride in a fully driverless car

It's been almost two years since Waymo first announced that it was testing fully autonomous vehicles on public roads. Not long afterwards, the...

White House backing off efficiency standard it’s suing over, report says

The White House is apparently blinking in a contentious lawsuit over fuel efficiency standards, leaving a number of major automakers that had backed...

Blizzard president gives vague apology for Hong Kong protest response

Before launching into the weekend-long celebration of Blizzard games that is Blizzcon, company President J. Allen Brack offered a vague on-stage apology for...

At NASA’s request, Boeing will livestream key Starliner test

On Monday, Boeing will perform a consequential test of its Starliner spacecraft's launch abort system in New Mexico. And thanks to NASA chief...

Rats love driving tiny cars, even when they don’t get treats

Rats that learn to drive are more able to cope with stress. That might sound like the fever-dream of a former scientist-turned-car...

Google buys Fitbit for $2.1 billion

It's official, Google is buying Fitbit. The company announced the move in a blog post this morning, and reports say the deal...

No, a genetic study didn’t pinpoint the ancestral homeland of all humans

A study published in the prestigious scientific journal Nature earlier this week supposedly determined that a particular region of southern Africa gave rise...

Sizing up the contenders for NASA’s lunar-lander program

For the first time in a dog's age, NASA's human spaceflight program seems to be in a hurry. Although few in the aerospace...

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