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GM-owned robot taxis will be on the roads again with human safety drivers following a pedestrian-dragging accident and a $1B budget cut

General Motors’ troubled Cruise autonomous vehicle unit said Monday it will start testing robotaxis in Arizona this week with human…

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Oregon residents were deprived of rare bourbons, including Pappy Van Winkle’s 23-year-old whiskey, by alcohol agency staff

Criminal charges are not warranted in the rare liquor probe that shook Oregon’s alcohol agency last year and forced its…

1 year ago

What this tech exec wants you to know about infertility and work

Becca Chambers wishes she had someone to talk to at work while navigating infertility treatments. Instead, she kept it to…

1 year ago

Social media and mental health: CVS-Morning Consult survey shows pros, cons

A larger proportion of Americans are worried about their mental health now than at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic,…

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Bumble fumbles anti-celibacy ads, kickstarting social-media debacle

Dating app Bumble is in a scramble to remove a series of ads arguing that celibacy is not the solution…

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Chinese-backed crypto firm must sell Wyoming land plot and get rid of equipment possibly capable of ‘espionage activities,’ says President Biden

President Joe Biden on Monday issued an order blocking a Chinese-backed cryptocurrency mining firm from owning land near a Wyoming…

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Collapsed Baltimore bridge is demolished as explosives clear steel section from Dali

Crews set off a network of linked explosives Monday to break down the largest remaining span of the collapsed Francis Scott…

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Shein vowed in 2022 that it would improve working conditions and hours at suppliers, but a new study claims that nothing has changed

Fast fashion retailer Shein said in late 2022 that it would make changes after probes revealed that Chinese workers at…

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Alabama follows Florida in banning lab-grown meat

The culture wars have a new scapegoat, the only difference is this red meat for the GOP base is quite…

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GameStop stock short sellers see gains flip to $1.4 billion loss

Skeptics betting against video-game retailer GameStop Corp. are facing a more than $1 billion loss after the company’s share price…

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