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Aarian Marshall Business Sep 23, 2023 4:17 PM California’s Governor Vetoes State Ban on Driverless Trucks California lawmakers, egged on by unions, voted to require a human onboard autonomous trucks over fears about safety and job losses. Governor Gavin Newsom was having none of it. Photograph: Wally Skalij/Getty Images Save …

Following some unfortunate incidents, questions have been raised about how safe autonomous vehicles are at this stage in their development, and what regulations would be required before they can fully use city streets. Robotaxis are on San Francisco’s streets, but other cities taking cautious approach Liz Lindqwister describes the first …

A Swiss Academy of Sciences panel is reporting a dramatic acceleration of glacier melt in the Alpine country, which has lost 10 per cent of its ice volume in the past two years. Switzerland has already lost up to 1,000 small glaciers, monitoring team says A Swiss Academy of Sciences …

Caitlin Harrington Business Sep 22, 2023 7:00 AM Workers Demand Job Security in the Autonomous, Electrified Future of Transport Truck drivers, auto workers, and others are fighting for the greener, smarter era of transportation to also include better pay and more protections for humans. The United Auto Workers union just …

Paresh Dave Business Sep 21, 2023 6:44 PM Google Mourns Veteran Engineer Luiz André Barroso, Who Invented the Modern Data Center Brazilian engineer Luiz André Barroso, who ripped up the rule book at Google, has died. His radical ideas for data centers laid the foundations for cloud computing. Visitors stand …

Will Knight Business Sep 21, 2023 12:00 PM Enough Talk, ChatGPT—My New Chatbot Friend Can Get Things Done An experimental AI assistant called Auto-GPT can use the web to solve problems. When the automated helper works, it can feel like the future. Photograph: Yaroslav Kushta/Getty Images Save this story Save …

New research suggests an Ottawa-area freshwater turtle is under threat of extinction within the next few years due to the mass urban growth near its habitat in Kanata’s South March Highlands. Urban sprawl and inadequate relief measures likely to blame, researchers say New research suggests an Ottawa-area freshwater turtle is …

Canada has lost more trees to wildfires this year than in any other year on record. It’s led some tree planters to question if their methods of the past have contributed to the fires of today. 'It was hard to think that I might have contributed to that smoke in …

We all know an apple will fall down because of the Earth’s gravity. But what about an “anti-apple”? For the first time, scientists have “dropped” antimatter, and found that it, too, feels the downward pull of the Earth’s gravity. Antimatter is influenced by gravity just like matter, ALPHA-g experiment finds …

Aarian Marshall Business Sep 21, 2023 7:00 AM How Elon Musk and Tesla Helped Spark the Auto Strikes Tesla isn't involved in the strike at Detroit’s Big Three automakers. But the EV maker and its irrepressible CEO had plenty to do with why the walkouts happened. United Auto Workers members …