Author: Liam Porter

Waymo partners with Uber to bring robotaxi service to Atlanta and Austin.Uber Technologies Inc.Uber and Alphabet’s Waymo are now offering robotaxi rides to the public in Atlanta, as the companies continue expansion of their partnership.The Waymo robotaxis available through the Uber app will cover approximately 65 square miles around Atlanta, but will not yet travel on highways or to the airport. The vehicles feature Waymo’s driverless technology, known as the Waymo Driver, integrated into battery electric Jaguar I-PACE SUVs.The companies said in September that they would be jointly bringing Waymo One to Austin, Texas, and to Atlanta. Rides became available in Austin…

“We are not our governments,” says Israel’s Guy Nattiv, who co-directed the politically charged sports thriller “Tatami” with Iran’s Zar Amir. Originally premiering at Venice in 2023, the film opened in American movie theaters on June 13 as Israel attacked Iran, starting a war — also involving the U.S. — that now appears to have been halted by a fragile truce. Amir, who won the Cannes best actress award in 2022 for “Holy Spider,” stars in “Tatami” as the coach of an Iranian judo athlete named Leila (played by Arienne Mandi). The Iranian regime gives her an ultimatum, demanding that…

Ready to carry on camping this summer? I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that a good collapsible camping chair can change your life. If you’ve never used one before, you’ll be astonished at how comfy a folding chair is, letting you sit off the cold ground when you’re cooking, eating, or just chilling out around the fire, and making every evening at camp a social occasion.The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more.There’s a folding camping chair out there to suit everyone, including wild campers who only…

Drs Chris and Xand van Tulleken discuss how to find something when you lose it.

Major League Baseball’s season is at the midway point and the 2025 amateur draft is just a matter of weeks away. If you ask us here at CBS Sports, that makes this the opportune time to rank some minor-league prospects.Below, you’ll find my updated rating of the top 25 prospects left in the minors. “In the minors” is a key phrase because, for the sake of this exercise, I’ve excluded any player with MLB experience (Chase Burns doesn’t take the mound for his major-league debut until tonight, so he still qualifies). I’m always willing to experiment with the format of these…

French police have detained twelve suspects after 145 people reported being pricked with syringes during the country’s annual street music festival, officials said. Millions of people took to the streets across France on Saturday evening for the Fete de la Musique, with authorities reporting “unprecedented crowds” in Paris. Before the party, posts on social media had called for women to be targeted during the festivities.

Much has been made of the power of habit. We’re encouraged to make healthy choices our default and to understand the way that the brain sets certain tasks, such as our morning commute, on autopilot to improve our efficiency.But what about our more intentional, conscious day-to-day choices? The decisions we ponder—over seconds or lengthy deliberation—rely in part on the value system, which weighs in on the subjective evaluations we make, tipping the scales toward one choice over another. “When we understand how the value system works, we can recognize many possible paths to our goals,” says Emily Falk, a neuroscientist…

A commitment to international law “goes absolutely to the heart” of Sir Keir Starmer’s government and its approach to foreign policy, the attorney general has told the BBC.In his first broadcast interview, Lord Richard Hermer, who is the Cabinet’s chief legal adviser, said that the government was determined to “lead on international law issues” globally.He argued that this has enabled the UK to strike economic deals with the US, India and the EU in recent months. The attorney general also defended Starmer’s decision to seek a “warm” relationship with President Trump even at the expense of “short-term political gain”.Lord Hermer’s…

U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell walks after attending a press conference following the issuance of the Federal Open Market Committee’s statement on interest rate policy in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 18, 2025.Kevin Mohatt | ReutersFederal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Tuesday emphasized the central bank’s commitment to keeping inflation in check, saying he expects policymakers to stay on hold until they have a better handle on the impact tariffs will have on prices.In remarks to be delivered to two congressional committees this week, Powell characterized economic growth as strong and the labor market to be around full employment.However, he…

When she heard that Jeff Bezos was getting married in Venice this June, Heather Jane Johnson felt worse than she had in her entire life. Twenty-five years ago, she ceased trading as a bookseller in Boston, Massachusetts. “I lost a lot because of Bezos and the complicity of Americans in the making of Amazon,” the 53-year-old says. “A big reason I moved to Italy is because I felt betrayed by my countrypeople.”So when posters went up calling a public meeting in the city she now calls home, she went, and she has been to every meeting of anti-Bezos activists since,…