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LOS ANGELES -- Waymo, the self-driving car division of Alphabet, first began offering its autonomous rideshare service on the streets of San Francisco earlier this year. Now the company is expanding, recently launching in Los Angeles. Waym...
A heat map taken during a heatwave in Prague shows water and green spaces can cool cities (Credit: European Space Agency) A heat map shows land surface temperatures in Paris during a heatwave in June 2022 (Credit: European Space Agency)...
OpenAI released the latest version ofChatGPT, the artificial intelligence language model making significant waves in the tech industry, on Tuesday. GPT-4, the latest model, can understand images as input, meaning it can look at a photo and giv...
It’s more than two millennia since the philosopher Socrates argued that humility is the greatest of all virtues. His timeless observation was that the wisest people are the first to admit how little they really know. Science...
Following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention'snew recommendationthat Americans wear cloth face masks in public, especially in areas with significantCOVID-19spread, many are asking which materials offer the best pro...
Cleaning your phone can be a solid coronavirus-prevention practice but how much is too much? What products are OK to use? WSJ’s Joanna Stern got answers by scrubbing a brand new iPhone 8 with everything from disinfecting wipes to acidic toilet-...
London could feel as hot as Barcelona by 2050, with Edinburgh's climate more like Paris, Leeds feeling like Melbourne and Cardiff like Montevideo. That's from a study looking at how a 2C temperature increase could change the world's 520 majo...
Huawei has delayed the launch of the Mate X folding handset until September, having originally planned to launch it this summer. The firm said it wanted to conduct extra tests following screen problems reported by early reviewers of Samsung's Galax...
Paris has come top of a ranking of the world's most expensive cities, alongside Hong Kong and Singapore. It's the first time three cities have shared the top spot in the 30-year history of the annual Economist Intelligence Unit survey, which...
Amazon to split new headquarters between 2 cities...
Samsung has unveiled a folding handset at an event in San Francisco. It described its Infinity Flex Display as "the foundation of the smartphone of tomorrow" and said it intended to start production within months. When unfolded, t...
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On Toronto's Eastern waterfront, a new digital city is being built by Sidewalk Labs - a firm owned by Google's parent Alphabet. It hopes the project will become a model for 21st-Century urbanism. But the deal has been controversial, representing on...
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One of China's largest tech companies has taken its "flirtatious secretary" virtual assistant offline, following a suggestion that it objectified women. The avatar, called Vivi, was designed to be built-in on a new virtual reality ...
Bill Gates wants to build a futuristic community in Arizona. A group associated with a Gates investment company has invested $80 million in a high-tech planned development outside Phoenix. The community in Belmont will be designed around ...
How to protect your smartphone from fake apps...
As you might have noticed earlier this month if you dared to venture outside, tourism is a pretty big thing here in China, and, for better or worse, it only promises to get bigger. A report by the World Travel and To...
After two years teaching English on the island of Taiwan, Alan McIvor was ready to start a new career. He’d moved to Asia because a dearth of jobs in Britain and had fallen into teaching English. But, he wanted more out of his work life...