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Waymo continues to expand its reach, with the robo-taxi company announcing Friday that it is “officially cleared for full self-driving in more areas of the Golden State.” Waymo already has operations in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Los Angeles (as well as outside California in Atlanta, Austin, and Phoenix). But maps published by the California Department of Transportation show that the company can now test and deploy self-driving cars in a much larger area of both the Bay Area and Southern California. In the Bay Area, Waymo’s approved operating area includes most of the East Bay and North Bay (including…
Cambridge Dictionary has chosen ‘parasocial’ as the word of the year for 2025.Francesco Carta Moment | Getty ImagesAI chatbots, Taylor Swift, and social media influencers all contributed to Cambridge Dictionary’s 2025 Word of the Year: ‘Parasocial’. Parasocial, revealed as the word of the year by the World Dictionary on Tuesday, refers to the connection people feel to online personalities, from celebrities to podcasters and even artificial intelligence. “Parasocial relationships are when we think we know someone, or feel very close to someone we’ve never actually met, such as a celebrity, an influencer, or someone who has become famous for some…
Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund and special envoy of the Russian president for economic cooperation with foreign countries, talks with U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkov during talks in St. Petersburg, Russia, April 11, 2025.Vyacheslav Prokofiev | via ReutersU.S. officials and lawmakers are increasingly concerned about Trump administration representatives meeting last month with Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev, who is under U.S. sanctions, to draft a plan to end the war in Ukraine, multiple sources said.The meeting took place in Miami at the end of October and was attended by Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, President…
Lando Norris says he is still willing to take a risk in his anticipated battle with Max Verstappen at the Las Vegas Grand Prix, despite a huge chance to win his first F1 world title.Norris completed a hat-trick of pole positions in wet conditions after a last-gasp effort to wrest the top spot from Verstappen, while championship challenger and McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri remained in fifth place. The British driver is 24 points clear of Piastri and 49 points clear of Verstappen in the drivers’ championship, with three races and one sprint remaining. A win for Norris on Sunday would…
(This is the Warren Buffett Watch newsletter, news and analysis about Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. Sign up here to receive it in your inbox every Friday night.)Just a week after Berkshire Hathaway disclosed last Friday that it had purchased 17.8 million shares of Google’s parent company’s Class A stock. alphabetin the third quarter (July-September), the market value of that position increased by $415 million to almost $5.35 billion.GOOGL is up 8.4% this week, while its biggest technology rival has fallen significantly. Nvidia’s Despite strong financial results, concerns about an “AI bubble” could not be overcome.Arrow pointing outside zoom in…
US President Donald Trump has given Ukraine less than a week to accept a plan widely seen to favor Russia to end the war, as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the country was facing “one of the most difficult moments” in its history. “We’ve had a lot of deadlines, and if things are going well, we tend to extend them. But Thursday is the deadline,” the president said in a radio interview with Fox News. Trump’s 28-point plan puts pressure on Kiev to cede territory, limit the size of its military and commit to not joining NATO in exchange for an…
When you walk into an intimidating environment expecting success, it goes spectacularly and spectacularly wrong.No, we’re not referring to Monty Panesar’s appearance on Celebrity Mastermind in 2019. The show featured a surprise appearance by the former England international spinner in the turbulent Ashes reinforcements as he was embroiled in an altercation with current Australian international batsman Steve Smith. Instead, we are talking about England’s fate in the first Test. As you can probably tell by now, that game didn’t end well for them. It was a poor start for them too (172 all out, 33 overs on the first day),…
Daniel Gray and her husband Douglas and their dog.Provided by: Daniel GrayOn October 23, the day after Daniel Gray’s 56th birthday, he received an email that seemed like a dream come true. The U.S. Department of Education would forgive his student loan balance of more than $170,000.”I couldn’t believe it,” Gray said. “This is the first time I’ve been debt-free since I turned 18.”But this sense of relief wasn’t all that surprising. Gray began repaying her student loans in the 1990s and was eligible for loan cancellation under the terms of an income-driven repayment plan. IDR plans erase the loan…
Reuters — A Nigerian court on Thursday convicted separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu on all seven terrorism-related charges after a decade-long trial that stoked tensions in the country’s southeast. Judge James Omotosho said the prosecution, which sought the death penalty for Kanu, had proven that his now-banned broadcasts and orders to the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) group incited deadly attacks on security forces and civilians. The violence was part of his push for an independent state of Biafra in the Igbo-controlled region, which sought to break away as the Republic of Biafra in 1967, sparking a three-year civil war that…
Nottingham Forest earned a deserved 3-0 win at Anfield, while Liverpool suffered a sixth defeat in their last seven Premier League games, but not without controversy.Two weeks after VAR intervened to invalidate Virgil van Dijk’s equalizer against Manchester City, which he had scored in similar circumstances, the technique failed when Murillo plucked past Alisson from a corner kick, leaving Dan Ndoye in an offside position. The Premier League Match Center announced that even though Ndoye was standing right in front of Alisson, “Ndoye was out of Alisson’s field of vision.” Forest could and probably should have taken a two-goal lead…