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Washington β Top executives at Tesla and Waymo made the case for the safety of their vehicles before a Senate committee on Wednesday, insisting their driving systems are safer than human drivers, despite recent incidents.Β Congress is considering how to move forward with legislation to create uniform safety regulations to govern self-driving vehicles, which are…
A wealth platform which targets professionals whose finances are becoming increasingly complex is raising nearly Β£8m from a syndicate of investors. Sky News understands that Sidekick, which was founded in 2022, will announce on Friday that it has secured the backing in a Series A round led by Eos Ventures and the Development Bank of…
Book Review If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Two figures will always haunt the human imagination: the woman in ecstasy, and the woman in madness. This enduring fascination may stem as much from the paper-thin line that separates the two…
By my reckoning, yesterday will be remembered as perhaps the most difficult of Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership yet, with even close allies telling me they are not sure where it will end. His admission at Prime Minister’s Questions that he knew of the friendship between Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein when he appointed him as…
Los Angeles Archbishop JosΓ© H. Gomez celebrated what he called a βMass for Peaceβ at Our Lady of the Angels on Wednesday, stopping just short of a direct appeal to the Trump administration to draw down its aggressive immigration enforcement efforts as protesters gathered blocks away. βWe are united with everybody in our country praying…
MILANΒ βΒ Amber Glenn achieved a lifelong goal, sealing her Olympic bid by winning her third consecutive U.S. championship last month. Her first celebration came with her opponents. βWe all deserve it,β Glenn said with her arms wrapped around national silver medalist Alysa Liu and bronze medalist Isabeau Levito. The spirit of collaboration has brought U.S. figure…
Pinterest said it fired two engineers who built an internal tool to track which employees had been laid off following aΒ recent round of job cutsΒ at the social media company. The firings come about a week after the lifestyle app said it was cutting 15% of its staff as it invests in artificial intelligence. Pinterest, which…
The London-listed company which wants to extract one of the world’s largest tungsten deposits from a site in Devon is in talks with investors to raise tens of millions of pounds from a share sale. Sky News has learnt that Tungsten West is close to finalising the terms of an equity-raise aimed at providing additional…
Shaboozey has responded to the backlash over remarks he made at the 2026 Grammy Awards. In a statement posted on the social media site X Monday, the country singer-songwriter said he wanted to βacknowledge the conversationβ spurred by his heartfelt speech after his historic Grammy win for country duo/group performance. After sharing that his mother,…
The government says it wants to recruit 10,000 more foster carers by the end of the next parliament, launching what ministers describe as a major drive to reverse a long-term decline in support for vulnerable children. Backed by Β£88m in funding, the plan promises to open fostering up to younger and more diverse households, sweep…
