Uber launches robotaxi support project to aid AV partners

Uber is moving aggressively into robotaxis, striking deals with new partners and promising big investments to support future fleets – basically everything it can do except design and build the vehicles itself. (It tried that once, unsuccessfully.) Now, the ridehail giant is launching a new initiative to support its third-party robotaxi partners called Uber […]
Nothing couldn’t wait to show off the Phone 4A

The Phone 4A’s Glyph Bar can be seen here as a line of seven squares to the right of the camera island. | Image: Nothing After teasing the upcoming launch of its midrange Phone 4A last week, Nothing has now revealed what the rear of the device looks like. An official render of the […]
How many AIs does it take to read a PDF?

Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge Last November, the House Oversight Committee had just released 20,000 pages of documents from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein, and Luke Igel and some friends were clicking around, trying to follow the threads of conversation through garbled email threads and a PDF viewer that was, frankly, “gross.” In […]
Taara Beam provides 25Gbps connectivity over invisible beams of light

Taara Beam mounted to a pole for line of sight connectivity. | Image: Taara Light-based internet provider Taara, which spun out of Alphabet’s “moonshot” incubator last year, just launched Taara Beam to provide 25Gbps connectivity within cities over invisible beams of light – line of sight permitting. Unlike last year’s Taara Lightbridge, which connects […]
