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Waymo’s robotaxis are better than some San Francisco drivers

Waymo’s robotaxis are better than some San Francisco drivers

Waymo, Alphabet's autonomous taxi cab company, is now available to the public in San Francisco — a culmination of more than a decade of testing and wading through regulatory hoops.About 300 cars are operating in the city. The company has about 700 robotaxis in total — most in SF and Phoenix — but Waymo's spokesperson told Business Insider there are plans to expand access to the public in Los Angeles and Austin.I took two rides on June 27 to and from the Financial District of SF during peak morning commute hours.My verdict? Waymo's autonomous driver is pretty damn smart, and…
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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore says his faith in Biden hasn’t wavered. Here’s why.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore says his faith in Biden hasn’t wavered. Here’s why.

Last week, the nation's Democratic governors met with President Joe Biden as he sought to reassure them that his candidacy remained viable after a debate that has imperiled his reelection bid.It was one of the most critical moments in Biden's decades-long political career, as he rallied support for a campaign that several Democratic lawmakers and a sizable bloc of voters believe he should forgo in favor of another candidate.But for Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, who was at the White House meeting, his decision is clear. He told Business Insider that he's standing with Biden.However, Moore was also blunt in assessing…
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See inside a historic 50,000-square-foot mansion on New York’s Gold Coast that’s featured in ‘The Gilded Age’

See inside a historic 50,000-square-foot mansion on New York’s Gold Coast that’s featured in ‘The Gilded Age’

The North Shore of Long Island is known as the Gold Coast thanks to its collection of lavish mansions, which date back to the early 1900s. Many of these homes are thought to have inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald's West Egg in "The Great Gatsby."One such mansion is Hempstead House, which is located in Sands Point Preserve, a 216-acre park about 30 miles outside New York City.The entire estate was once owned by Howard Gould, a financier. He sold the land to Daniel and Florence Guggenheim in 1917, according to the preserve's history.The Guggenheims lived in Hempstead House together until 1930,…
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Beijing’s ‘monster ship,’ the world’s largest coastguard vessel, dropped anchor in the South China Sea

Beijing’s ‘monster ship,’ the world’s largest coastguard vessel, dropped anchor in the South China Sea

The world's largest coastguard ship dropped anchor in Manila's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the South China Sea earlier this week, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said.Jay Tarriela, a spokesperson for the PCG, wrote on X that the authority had successfully tracked the movements of the China Coast Guard's (CCG) "165-meter monster ship" by "using Canada's Dark Vessel Detection technology.""On July 1st, the ship departed from Hainan and entered the Philippines' Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) on the following day," he wrote.The 12,000-ton CCG 5901 was later "radio challenged" by the PCG, which asked it to confirm its intentions and to…
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I’m a dietitian, and my husband is a personal trainer. Here are 14 things we’re buying at Trader Joe’s right now.

I’m a dietitian, and my husband is a personal trainer. Here are 14 things we’re buying at Trader Joe’s right now.

Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. download the app By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. You can opt-out at any time by visiting our Preferences page or by clicking "unsubscribe" at the bottom of the email. Trader Joe's may feel like a kitschy neighborhood grocery store, but it's actually a multibillion-dollar chain with well over 500 locations across the US.Luckily, despite its business successes, it's still an affordable place to pick up organic, nutrient-rich staples.As a dietitian who married a personal trainer,…
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Ukraine says it fooled Russia into striking fake planes and air defense systems with Iskander-M ballistic missiles

Ukraine says it fooled Russia into striking fake planes and air defense systems with Iskander-M ballistic missiles

Ukrainian forces say they duped Russia into striking dummy models of aircraft and air defense systems with Iskander-M missiles.He shared footage that he claimed showed recent enemy strikes with Iskander-Ms on the mock-ups, which he said were placed at an airfield close to the city of Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine and the Yuzhne area, near the Black Sea port of Odesa.He said the footage was captured by Russian reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicles."The Air Force personnel successfully conducted passive defense measures!" Oleshchuk wrote in the post."Thank you to everyone who helps with high-quality models of aircraft and air defense systems.…
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Trump’s hush-money sentencing will still happen in September despite his new immunity superpowers, New York legal experts predict

Trump’s hush-money sentencing will still happen in September despite his new immunity superpowers, New York legal experts predict

"No harm, no foul" isn't just for streetball. It could help former President Donald Trump's hush-money conviction survive the US Supreme Court immunity opinion.Thanks to a legal doctrine called "harmless error," Trump's September 18 sentencing is virtually guaranteed to proceed as planned, former New York judges and prosecutors predicted in conversations with Business Insider.And no amount of jumping up and down and screaming "SCOTUS" can stop it, they said.That's because even if Trump's trial judge, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, finds that presidential immunity retroactively invalidates some evidence used at trial, he'll likely also find that this amounts…
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The Words That Give Away Generative AI Text

The Words That Give Away Generative AI Text

Thus far, even AI companies have had trouble coming up with tools that can reliably detect when a piece of writing was generated using a large language model. Now, a group of researchers has established a novel method for estimating LLM usage across a large set of scientific writing by measuring which "excess words" started showing up much more frequently during the LLM era (i.e., 2023 and 2024). The results "suggest that at least 10 percent of 2024 abstracts were processed with LLMs," according to the researchers.In a preprint paper posted earlier this month, four researchers from Germany's University of…
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