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A Tesla robotaxi drives on the street along South Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas, U.S., June 22, 2025. Joel Angel Juarez | ReutersTesla is recruiting test drivers in New York to operate cars with “automated driving systems,” but the company hasn’t applied for the permits it would need to test autonomous vehicles in the nation’s largest city.A job opening on Tesla’s website says the company is looking to hire vehicle operators in the borough of Queens. The hires will be “responsible for driving an engineering vehicle for extended periods, conducting dynamic audio and camera data collection for testing and training…

Listen to article The United States and China on Monday extended a tariff truce for another 90 days, staving off triple-digit duties on each other’s goods as US retailers get ready to ramp up inventories ahead of the critical end-of-year holiday season. US President Donald Trump announced on his Truth Social platform that he had signed an executive order suspending the imposition of higher tariffs until 12:01am EST (0501 GMT) on November 10, with all other elements of the truce to remain in place. China’s Commerce Ministry issued a parallel pause on extra tariffs early on Tuesday, also postponing for 90 days…

Nikoli’s president, Yoshinao Anpuku, poses for a photo at Nikoli headquarters in Tokyo on March 19, 2025. LinkedIn worked with Nikoli and Sudoku champion Thomas Snyder to launch its Mini Sudoku game.NikoliLinkedIn on Tuesday released a new game for the professional social networking app’s 1.2 billion users. It’s a miniature version of Sudoku, an old game with a rich history.The new Mini Sudoku is LinkedIn’s sixth game. It’s scaled down from the traditional 9-by-9 grid and meant to be completed in two or three minutes.”We don’t want to have a puzzle on LinkedIn that takes 20 minutes to solve, right?”…

U.S. President Donald Trump, joined by Republican lawmakers, signs the One, Big Beautiful Bill Act into law during an Independence Day military family picnic on the South Lawn of the White House on July 04, 2025 in Washington, DC.Samuel Corum | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump’s tax and spending law will result in less income for the poorest Americans while sending money to the richest, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office reported Monday.The CBO estimates that the 10% of poorest Americans will lose roughly $1,200 a year as they experience restrictions on government programs like Medicaid and food…

A Spirit Airlines Airbus A320 taxis at Los Angeles International Airport after arriving from Boston on September 1, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. Kevin Carter | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesSpirit Airlines has warned it might not be able to survive as a going concern if it doesn’t raise more cash, five months after the budget-travel icon emerged from bankruptcy.After cutting its debt during restructuring, Spirit has tried to attract bookings by marketing more upscale products and looking for new ways to cut costs. Late last month, the airline announced plans to furlough 270 more pilots this fall.”However, the Company…

Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of artificial intelligence startup Anthropic.Chesnot | Getty ImagesAnthropic on Tuesday announced it will offer Claude for Enterprise and Claude for Government to all three branches of the U.S. government for $1 per agency for a year.It’s the latest example of how major artificial intelligence companies have been looking to deepen their ties to policymakers and regulators in recent months. Anthropic’s competitor OpenAI announced earlier this month it will give its ChatGPT Enterprise product to U.S. federal agencies for $1 through the next year.Anthropic said it partnered with the U.S. General Services Administration to bring its technology to participating agencies…

Children interact with a fruit-picking robot during the 2025 World Robot Conference (WRC) in Beijing, capital of China, Aug. 11, 2025. The WRC 2025 showcases rapidly advancing embodied intelligence technology, with humanoid robots as the highlight, demonstrating significant progress achieved globally and particularly in China, while the event also serves to illuminate a wide range of future commercial application scenarios.Themed “Making Robots Smarter, Making Embodied Agents More Intelligent,” the five-day conference that opened on Friday features forums, exhibitions, competitions and networking events — with over 200 robotics companies from around the world presenting their latest innovations. (Xinhua/Ju Huanzong)A robot competes…

Listen to article PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) issued a stay order on Tuesday, halting the appointment of new opposition leaders in the National Assembly and Senate following the disqualification of PTI’s Omar Ayub and Shibli Faraz. The court issued notices to the National Assembly speaker, Senate chairperson, and other relevant officials, directing them to submit responses by August 15. On August 5, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had disqualified Ayub and Faraz, along with other opposition MNAs and MPAs, following their convictions in three cases related to the May 9, 2023 riots. Subsequently, on August 8, both leaders were…

Robust backing from the government and a desire to stage big-ticket events make India a strong candidate to host the 2030 Commonwealth Games, a top Indian Olympic Association (IOA) official told Reuters. The world’s most populous nation is bidding for the 2030 edition of the Commonwealth Games in Ahmedabad to boost its bigger dream of hosting the 2036 Olympic Games at the western Indian city. A Commonwealth Sports delegation visited Ahmedabad last week to share their experience from the previous Games and help the Indian organisers prepare a comprehensive bid to be submitted by the August 31 deadline. “First and…

People wait to attend a birthday celebration for giant panda Dingding at the Moscow Zoo in Moscow, Russia, on July 30, 2025. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr/Xinhua)by Xinhua writers Wu Qiong and Yu LiCHENGDU, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) — In the lush enclosures of the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, 50-year-old researcher James Edward Ayala leans in to observe 2-year-old panda cub Rong Shuo, whose name translates to “Shining Chengdu.” With gentle precision, he measures the cub’s paw size, part of a study tracking male pandas’ development.”I love working with him…it’s kind of symbolic of my relationship with the…