Uber is joining forces with two companies, China’s Pony AI and Croatia’s Verne, to launch what it claims will be Europe’s first commercially available robotaxi service. The vehicles are already being tested in Zagreb, Croatia, where Verne is headquartered, and will soon be available to customers on Uber’s ridehail network. The announcement is the latest…
Today, the Prince and Princess of Wales will attend the installation of the new Archbishop of Canterbury. Ahead of that moment, the British media has been talking a lot about Prince William’s faith or lack thereof. One of William’s senior aides even tried to thread the needle by admitting that William basically has no use…
Former major league umpire Richie Garcia is worried about the impact that robot officials will have on their human counterparts. Major League Baseball has introduced the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System for regular-season play in 2026, starting with the New York Yankees’ opener at San Francisco on Wednesday night. Teams will have a chance to appeal…
Hours before a call between President Trump and India’s prime minister, American officials urged India to focus on shared goals and ignore differences.
During my years working with astronauts, it was routine to hear about returning crew being carried from their re-entry capsules on stretchers. Even last year, we saw this when NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore finally came home after their unexpectedly long nine-month stint on the International Space Station. Despite the top-notch health and…
Enterprise data teams moving agentic AI into production are hitting a consistent failure point at the data tier. Agents built across a vector store, a relational database, a graph store and a lakehouse require sync pipelines to keep context current. Under production load, that context goes stale. Oracle, whose database infrastructure runs the transaction systems…
With his new single ‘SKITTLES’, Matt Terry has served up a delicious dose of pop that is impossible to resist. The vibrant track, which is bursting with energy, is candy to the ears and it knows exactly how to hit the sweet spot. Matt crafted ‘SKITTLES’ as a playful way to reflect on his first…
European politicians risk angering their voters if they join America’s war. Yet they could also face domestic upheaval if they take no action to reopen shipping routes that Iran has blocked and ease an energy crisis.
In spite of a brave effort, Manchester United Women fell to defeat in the first leg of their Champions League tie. The Red Devils fought back twice but finally succumbed to a 2-3 defeat to Bayern Munich at Old Trafford. Advertisement Maya Le Tissier and Swede Hanna Lundkvist both managed to score for United, but…
Latto, real name Alyssa Stephens, never thought she would be welcoming her first child at the same time as an album release. “I always thought when I got pregnant one day, I was gonna fall back and be out the way,” she said in a new interview with Paper magazine. Latto first showed off her…
