Cruise never planned to make its own silicon. But in the quest to commercialize robotaxis — and make money doing it — those never planned pursuits can suddenly seem a lot more appealing. Cruise realized that the price of chips from suppliers was too high, the parts were too big and the reliability of the…
Healthcare has finally begun to embrace digital transformation after years as a stubborn holdout.The coronavirus pandemic has only accelerated adoption of technologies such as telehealth and remote patient monitoring.Insider Intelligence covers these topics and more each morning in our Digital Health Briefing email newsletter. Healthcare has been through quite the journey in the last few…
Footage of a US-made HIMARS published by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry in July. Ukraine Ministry of Defense Russian forces have struggled to counter Ukraine’s use of US-made HIMARS rockets. Some Russians have an explanation: HIMARS has a secret feature that makes it harder to target them. That’s probably bluster meant to distract from Russian military…
It’s finally happening. A decade on from the last full Silent Hill game, the survival horror franchise is making a long-awaited comback. The future of the Silent Hill series will be unveiled this week – on Wednesday at 10pm here in the UK. “In your restless dreams, do you see that town?” the official Silent…
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JADE GAO/AFP via Getty Images Workers who make clothes sold on Shein get as little as 4 cents for each item they make, according to a new investigation. They often work 18-hour days with one day off per month, Channel 4 and The i newspaper reported. Some workers even wash their hair on their lunch…
A New York Times article from the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis. JFK Library The ongoing war in Ukraine and increasingly escalatory rhetoric from Russia has raised fears of nuclear war. These developments have led to comparisons with the Cuban Missile Crisis, a 13-day standoff between the US and the Soviet Union that could…
Independent Senate candidate Evan McMullin. AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, file Evan McMullin reaffirmed that he wouldn’t caucus with either party if elected to the Senate as an Independent. While on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” McMullin said he wanted to play a key role in crafting legislation. McMullin contrasted his independence with Mike Lee, his Republican general…
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google may soon start letting you pick from cast devices when using the audio output switcher on Android 13, according to Esper’s Mishaal Rahman. The output switcher, which was first introduced in Android 11, currently only lets you swap between media playback sessions on paired Bluetooth devices,…
At a glance, this might look like a clumsy astronomer smudged a new deep space photo with a fingerprint. Those ridges are actually all part of a new image from the James Webb Space Telescope, the premier observatory in the sky. Astronomers are studying the dust rings wrapped around a duet of stars 5,000 light-years…