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Waymo can now test its self-driving vehicles in New York City
Waymo can now test its self-driving cars in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams has announced. Local authorities have granted the company the permit needed to be able...
NYC proposes 5 percent raise for rideshare drivers in a bid to appease Uber and Lyft
New York City's Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) have settled on new minimum-wage rules for rideshare drivers, Bloomberg reports. Drivers will receive a five percent raise under the...
Waymo will start testing its autonomous cars in New York again
Waymo's autonomous cars are heading back to New York City in July, the company announced today. Cars will be manually driven for now, not unlike the mapping tests...
Brad Holland, Subversive Artist Who Reinvented American Illustration, Dies at 81
Brad Holland, an idiosyncratic artist who upended American illustration in the 1970s with his startling imagery for Playboy magazine and The New York Times’s opinion page, spawning a...
Rick Levine, Who Gave Commercials Cinematic Flair, Dies at 94
Rick Levine, an award-winning television commercial director who brought a big-screen sensibility to the small screen with widely celebrated spots, like a Diet Pepsi Super Bowl ad from...
Tom Johnson, Minimalist Composer and Village Voice Critic, Dies at 85
Tom Johnson, a composer and critic whose Village Voice columns documented the renaissance of avant-garde music in downtown New York during the 1970s, and whose own compositions embraced...
