Los AngelesCounty is choosing to continue with the \\"care first, jails last\\" approach when addressing the more than 75,000 individuals experiencing homelessness in the county, despite recent pressure from California's Gov. Gavin Newsom...
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Tech billionaire Elon Musk has claimed his Neuralink company has successfully implanted one of its wireless brain chips in a human. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, he said "promising" brain activity had been detected after the...
Federal prosecutors are investigating General Motors' driverless car unit over its handling of an accident involving one of its driverless cars. Cruise acknowledged the probe, as it released findings from its review of the Octob...
Torrential rains and unabated construction are frequently triggering disasters in India's Himalayan region. But an unusual increase in rainfall is making the terrain even more dangerous. Landslides and flash floods have already k...
Warnings over the safety of OceanGate's Titan submersible were repeatedly dismissed by the CEO of the company, email exchanges with a leading deep sea exploration specialist show. In messages seen by the BBC, Rob McCallum told OceanGate C...
The UK is set to enter recession this year but it will be shorter and less severe than previously thought, according to the Bank of England. The slump is now expected to last just over a year rather than almost two as energy bills fall an...
Driverless taxis, or “robotaxis”, have been rolled out on the streets of San Francisco, and BBC technology show Click has been to see how they work. The vehicles are capable of getting passengers from A to B across the city, but there is...
People catching Omicron are 50% to 70% less likely to need hospital care compared with previous variants, a major analysis says. The UK Health Security Agency says its early findings are "encouraging" but the variant co...
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Mastering 'active rest' is far harder than it looks, but there are good reasons why we should keep working at it. ...
Something is keeping movie star Tom Cruise up at night: motion smoothing. In an impassioned video posted to Twitter on Tuesday, the Mission Impossible star warned that a default setting on many high-end televisions "makes most movies lo...
It was a wedding under the Texas sky that one guest described as a \\"fairy tale,\\" but a young couple's married life together ended in tragedy when a helicopter whisking them away from their reception crashed into a hillside, killing them and...
Q. What question can you never answer "Yes" to? A. What does "N-O" spell?...
Q. What five-letter word becomes shorter if you add two letters to it？ A. "Short" (add + "er")!...
When you're sitting in the driver's seat at 60mph on a rain-lashed motorway, covering your eyes would normally be a dangerous, if not downright suicidal move. Putting on a virtual reality headset, obscuring the view of the road altogether, m...
Designer tweaks famous logos to use less ink ...
The UK has slipped down the list of preferred destinations for Chinese millionaires considering moving overseas, a report suggests. While the US remains the favourite place to settle, Canada now ranks second pushing Britain into third spot. ...
A demonstration of driverless cars in Nuneaton will be followed later this year by trials on public roads. Autodrive - a collaboration between Jaguar Land Rover, Ford and Tata Motors - showed off how autonomous cars can talk to each other. ...
What’s the point of your job? If you spend your days in wasteful meetings, or send emails that create yet more worthless emails in an endless loop, you’ve likely asked yourself that very question. People from all walks of life h...