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California will allow Cruise to give rides in driverless test vehicles
Cruise Origin driverless shuttlecruiseCruise, the majority-owned General Motors autonomous vehicle company, may soon offer driverless test vehicle rides to California passengers.The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) announced…
Microsoft will require vaccines for US workers, vendors, visitors
Satya Nadella, CEO of MicrosoftSean Gallup | Getty ImagesMicrosoft announced on Tuesday that employees would have to be vaccinated against the coronavirus from September in order to be able to enter its US offices. The software company…
Darktrace plans to go public in London despite Deliveroo IPO flop
A demonstration of Darktrace cybersecurity software shows how a global problem can start with just one workstation for one employee.Michael S. Williamson | The Washington Post | Getty ImagesLONDON - The UK cybersecurity startup announced…
What Ever Happened to IBM’s Watson?
IBM insists its revamped AI strategy - a pared-back, less world-changing goal - works. The job of resurrecting growth was entrusted to Arvind Krishna, a computer scientist who became chief executive last year after leading the recent…
100 Days Without Trump on Twitter: A Nation Scrolls More Calmly
But how strong is the noise? Many Republicans still seem to hold onto every word Mr. Trump said. But others say his voice nearly passed out without Twitter or the presidency, much like Alpha, the terrible Doberman pinscher in the movie…
Irish Hospitals Hit by Cyberattacks, Forcing an I.T. Shutdown
Health network officials have described the attack as "sophisticated," claiming that attackers used an undetected bug in software known as zero-day to compromise their systems. They did not name the affected software or provide any…