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Waymo’s robotaxis are now open to anyone in San Francisco
Waymo is now available for anyone in San Francisco to fire up the app and hail a robotaxi. The Alphabet-owned company has had government approval to operate paid...
The Tech World’s Greatest Living Novelist, Robin Sloan, Goes Meta
So, inevitably, we talk a lot more, and meta-ly, about language, words, meaning—though Sloan doesn’t think it was inevitable that language would be the breakthrough AI technology. Could’ve...
10 best disaster movies of all time, ranked | Tech Reader
Chaos and catastrophes have often been the subject of some of the most thrilling films ever made, with the disaster subgenre producing iconic blockbusters that had cinemas packed...
Nintendo is finally opening a second US store
It's taken Nintendo two decades, but the company is finally ready to open a second store in the US. The new location in San Francisco’s Union Square is...
5 Years After San Francisco Banned Face Recognition, Voters Ask for More Surveillance
San Francisco made history in 2019 when its Board of Supervisors voted to ban city agencies including the police department from using face recognition. About two dozen other...
Waymo robotaxi attacked and set on fire in San Francisco | Tech Reader
A Waymo self-driving car was set upon by vandals in San Francisco on Saturday evening.
According to footage and eyewitness reports of the incident, the attackers graffitied the car...
