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Carry On (autonomous) Cabby (1/2) - saddling up with Pony AI’s Robotaxi

First, a confession - I have never ridden in a driverless car, and aging Luddite that I am, I have no burning desire to do so. But it’s impossible to deny that I’m driving on the wrong side of the road here and there is a significant direction of travel towards more and more autonomous vehicles, even if that does seem to coming more from the sell side than the user side at present.

Two leading proponents of such an autonomous future are China’s Pony AI and, of course, Uber Technologies, and comparison of their respective strategic ambitions and achievements to date make for insightful reading into assessing just how far off the day of the mainstream ‘robo-taxi’ really is.

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First fare goes to Pony AI, the firm was founded in California in 2016 by Tiancheng Lou - now CTO - and James Peng, currently CEO, but headquartered...

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The County Prosecutors Who Became ICE Informants

This story was produced in partnership with Injustice Watch, a nonprofit newsroom in Chicago focused on the court system. Rolando Perez Samayoa had come to the US in 2023 seeking safety. Fleeing violence in Mexico, he’d first planned to make a life in Alabama but had been told that

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Greenworks’ MaximusZ electric riding mower has five motors and a few compromises

The current EV market is flush with variety. I’ve driven single-motor economy-minded machines, dual-motor EVs with all-wheel drive, tri-motor vehicles that dial up the performance stakes, and even wild quad-motor performance cars, like the Rimac Nevera. But this is the first time I’ve ever driven a five-motor EV,

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Defining the MVC: Recover faster from cyberattacks by restoring what matters most

Most organizations in UK and across Europe don’t struggle to recover from cyberattacks such as ransomware because they lack backups. They struggle because they try to restore everything at once. VP for UK&I at Cohesity. In the aftermath of a major cyber incident, the instinct is to

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Microsoft Teams administrators finally get the option to block external bots from meetings

* Microsoft used to tell you when a bot was in the lobby, now you can automatically block it * Watch out, because legitimate add-ons like AI assistants could end up being blocked * More protections are coming to Teams soon, too Microsoft is rolling out an important new security policy for Teams,

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The County Prosecutors Who Became ICE Informants

Greenworks’ MaximusZ electric riding mower has five motors and a few compromises

Defining the MVC: Recover faster from cyberattacks by restoring what matters most

Microsoft Teams administrators finally get the option to block external bots from meetings