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Waymo posted on X today that it has opened fully autonomous rides on LA freeways to its employees. The company noted that this is a preliminary step toward bringing its vehicle fleet onto highways for all passengers in the city. Freeways are an intrinsic part of the LA experience. To better serve our expansive 79-square-mile … Read more
If you own a Garmin GPS watch, you may want to power it down for a while. Users on Reddit and Garmin’s forums (via The Verge) report that a botched software update is leaving the wearables in a “blue triangle” boot loop, putting them out of commission until further notice. A pinned message from the … Read more
Ooni, the Scottish company known for its innovative outdoor pizza ovens, is expanding into a new product category — without sacrificing the brand’s pizza theme. The Halo Pro is a $799 mixer that tries to do the same for pizza dough as the company did for pizza ovens: bring restaurant-quality baking to the home kitchen. … Read more
A majority of workers at a Whole Foods location in Philadelphia have voted to unionize, as reported by Reuters. This makes the Pennsylvania store the first to unionize under Amazon’s ownership, and the second time overall. Workers voted 130 to 100 for representation, according to the National Labor Relations Board, which translates to nearly 60 … Read more
It seems that X is getting ready to finally roll out the payments app the company’s leaders have long been promising The company will introduce X Money later this year with Visa as partner, CEO Linda Yaccarino announced. According to Yaccarino, X Money will support person-to-person payments via users’ debit cards with the ability to … Read more
Heads up, Animal Crossing fans: if you haven’t yet bought the paid version of Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp and plan to do so, it might be a good idea to snap it up in the next day or so. The mobile game is currently $10, but the price will double to $20 after 1AM ET … Read more
Boom, the startup developing a new generation of supersonic aircraft, has achieved a major milestone after its test plane broke the sound barrier for the first time. The XB-1 “Baby Boom” piloted by Tristan “Gepetto” Brandenburg, flew through the Bell X-1 Supersonic Corridor over the Mojave Desert. XB-1 reached a speed of Mach 1.1 at … Read more
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has announced its preliminary findings that the cloud services market “is not working as well as it could be.” That relatively vague statement follows a 16-month investigation into the UK’s cloud services market, especially its two largest providers, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft. Both companies hold between … Read more
Sens. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) are re-introducing a bill that aims to ban social media platforms from knowingly letting kids aged under 13 from using them. The bipartisan Kids Off Social Media Act (KOSMA) was introduced last year, but it didn’t progress beyond the committee stage. However, KOSMA may pick up more … Read more
You’ll only need to remember the name Incention for the brief moment you’re reading this post, because you’ll likely never have to think about it again. As Variety reports, it’s a new platform for building new Hollywood IP using the combined power of AI tools, fan contributions and the blockchain. Incention describes itself as “a … Read more