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For years, Waymo has been claiming that its driverless vehicles have the potential to be safer than humans. Now the company says it has the data to back it up.

Waymo analyzed 7.13 million fully driverless miles in three cities — Phoenix, Los Angeles, and San Francisco — and compared the data to human driving benchmarks to

• While living in Germany, my daughter went to a kindergarten where her teacher only spoke German.
• My daughter, immersed in the language, became my translator. 
• It made me think about how different education is in the US because my daughter excelled in German.

We would live

• Russia is forcing Ukrainians in occupied towns to join the army, a watchdog organization reports.
• Human Rights Watch found that both civilians and individuals in detention centers have been threatened and pressured.
• Russia has said before that it is sending

• The Senate has confirmed every single military promotion previously held up by Sen. Tommy Tuberville.
• Tuberville conceded earlier in the month that nothing came out of his months-long hold.
• A GOP senator continues to block a handful of officers from promotion for their views on diversity.

With the

• A Tesla owner walked away with a $14,000 repair bill from a day-one issue with his Model Y.
• The Model Y's suspension broke with only 115 miles on the odometer, according to a report.
• Reuters found that Tesla has faced thousands of complaints over suspension and steering issues.

Former Tesla owner Shreyansh Jain was hit with a $14,000 repair bill from an issue he

If you ever enrolled in the Apple Family Sharing with a family member between 2015 and 2019, you may entitled to a cut from the $25 million legal settlement Apple agreed to pay. MacRumors did some math and claims you could get between $30 to $50 if you qualify.

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How immersive technologies and the enterprise metaverse could positively transform the way we think about agile project execution.   

If you find yourself in the metaverse with PwC, you might be having a meeting on Mars. Imagine: You're at home, having just had breakfast. You grab your VR headset and in an instant, you're no longer in your kitchen, but in a virtual meeting space set

• A Ukrainian sea-drone operator took out a Russian patrol ship, per The New York Times.
• His "whole" team was "filled with emotion" when he struck it in September, he told the newspaper.
• Sea drones have the potential to end Russia's "reign" over the Black Sea, he suggested.

A Ukrainian sea-drone operator

Jim Browning is a software engineer and an expert on scam call centers. His YouTube channel baits scammers by gaining access to their computers, observing them through CCTV, and hacking into their networks. He then conveys this information to law enforcement.

Scam call centers operate by manipulating victims into disclosing personal and financial information over the phone. These centers typically

The best sci-fi movie of 2023 is already making an early play for the best sci-fi movie of 2024 on a technicality. After its unprecedented international success, Godzilla Minus One is returning to Japanese theaters for a special release in black and white.

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• The Cybertruck is the first Tesla vehicle with "wade mode."
• The feature allows the truck to drive through around 30 inches of water.
• Turning on wade mode "raises ride height and pressurizes battery when driving through water."

While the Cybertruck isn't able to cross lakes and seas like Musk once promised, it does have something called "wade mode" that

Grown exclusively in the Mie Prefecture in Japan, Matsusaka cattle are raised so their fat achieves the lowest melting point possible. The finest cuts of Matsusaka wagyu have a melting point of 12 degrees Celsius, 8 degrees lower than Kobe. These cows are so valuable that in 2002, one fetched 50 million yen, over $330,000, at auction.

These high prices are not about just how the cows live, but how