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Tech Billionaires Release Map of Utopian City They Want to Build in California
California Forever, the quixotic, billionaire-backed project to build a new city in the Bay Area, is chugging along. Despite the fact that locals seem to hate it, the Silicon Valley dreamers behind the project remain undeterred. The team planning the city released more details about its proposed development, including a map of what the hypothetical…
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Why Are Live-Action Remakes So Annoying?
Until studios get out of their own way, it’s hard to be excited about anything jumping from cartoons to live-action.
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Waymo Wants to Drive You Around Without A Steering Wheel
When there are countless ride-hailing apps out there, there are only so many ways for newcomers to distinguish themselves from the Ubers and Lyfts of the world. Well, leave it to Alphabet’s self-driving car branch, Waymo, to do exactly that: on Wednesday, the company announced a new kind of ride-hailing vehicle without pedals, a steering…
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If Waymo Can’t Do It Then I Wonder If Anyone Can
Self-driving cars are not close to being a real thing, not even a little bit close, but the smart money in the ecosystem of companies that are trying to make self-driving cars real things has always been on Waymo, which has seemed furthest ahead for years. Except according to a new report, they might not…