After a closely watched vote, driverless cars, once a Silicon Valley fantasy, have become a 24-hour-a-day reality in San Francisco. Are autonomous vehicles an interesting and safe transportation alternative? Or are they a nuisance and a traffic-blocking disaster waiting to happen?
Cade Metz, who covers technology for The Times, describes the unique challeng ... Show More
Yesterday
Chosen by War: The Rise of Iran’s New Supreme Leader
At the heart of the Iranian regime’s defiant stance toward the United States and Israel in the war is Mojtaba Khamenei, the new supreme leader and a son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the regime’s longtime ruler. Farnaz Fassihi, who covers Iran for The New York Times, discusses the e ... Show More
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Mar 16
A War Within the War: Israel’s Bombardment of Lebanon
With the world’s attention on the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, a second front in the conflict has opened in Lebanon. Israel has pummeled an area in the southern outskirts of Beirut where Hezbollah holds sway, as well as southern Lebanon, with airstrikes, displacing almost one mill ... Show More
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Dec 2016
Super Mario Run, Uber's self-driving cars, and Apple's new TV app
Everyone was in New York this week, so we had a jam-packed studio with Nilay, Dieter, and Paul, along with culture reporter Megan Farokhmanesh and transportation reporter Andrew Hawkins. Megan joins us on Vergecast for the first time to talk about what dominates the site this wee ... Show More
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Feb 2024
Así suena un viaje en un coche sin conductor
<p>Un coche autónomo es un coche sin conductor. Es decir, un taxi que va a recogerte y te lleva donde tú quieras, sin nadie al volante. Se conduce solo. El futuro, que ya es presente en varias ciudades del mundo. En algunos lugares de Estados Unidos la llegada de los coches sin c ... Show More
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Sep 2021
San Francisco and the American nightmare
<p>Since the internet boom in the mid-90s, San Francisco has become a tech superpower, overtaking Silicon Valley. The city has more billionaires per square mile than anywhere in the US, but it also has more homeless people. Danny Fortson meets the residents of its tent citie ... Show More
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May 2022
Accident mortel d'une Tesla à Paris : erreur humaine ou bug technique ?
<p>Le soir du samedi 11 décembre 2021, une Tesla accélère brutalement sur l’avenue d’Ivry, dans le XIIIe arrondissement de Paris. En quelques secondes, ce <a href="https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x867zzi" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">véhicule électrique haut de gam ... Show More
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