A robot taxi being tested killed a dog that ran out from behind a parked car. The company said that the car's computers recognized the dog but could not stop the car in time.

So-called "autonomous" cars are not really autonomous, because they are "connected", and that is an injustice to the passengers and perhaps also the passersby. It should be illegal to operate a taxi unless it (1) can be called by anonymous passengers, (2) accepts payment in anonymous cash, and (3) keeps no biometric information about them or about people outside the taxi.

Robert Reich: Licht's idea of moving CNN to the "political center" was doomed from the start because the US has no such center. American is now divided between fascists and democrats.

Empires that are declining often exalt militarism. The US is doing so, at scales ranging from the neighborhood to the globe.

The Professional Golfers Association has merged with Crown Prince Bone Saw's competing golf tournament series.

Doesn't that violate European competition law?

Reportedly some European intelligence agency informed the US that Ukraine had made a plan to blow up the Nord Stream pipelines, a few months before the actual bombing.

The pipelines belonged to Russia, so as I understand it that made it legitimate for Ukraine, already at war with Russia, to attack them.