Germany has recently implemented legislation that involves “driverless” vehicles. The policy will take effect on public roads next year. Moreover, the country has already set out its plans in collaboration with the tech companies which will be assigned for the deployment of robotaxis, as well as the delivery services across the region. Even though the idea of autonomous vehicle driving is already allowed in the country, there is nothing safer than a human companion who will supervise behind driverless vehicles along the highway. Germany Targets Level 4 Autonomy Vehicles in the ‘Driverless Vehicle’ Bill (Photo : Florida Trend (@FloridaTrend) from…
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President Joe Biden marks the anniversary Tuesday of the police murder of George Floyd by hosting the African American man’s family — but without being able to celebrate hoped-for national police reform.Floyd’s daughter Gianna, his mother, sister and brothers will be among those attending private talks with Biden at the White House, Press Secretary Jen Psaki said.”The courage and grace of his family, and especially his daughter Gianna, has really stuck with the president,” she told reporters. “He’s eager to listen to their perspectives.”The choking to death of Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25 last year and subsequent conviction of…
Urian B., Tech Times 24 May 2021, 09:05 pm (Photo : Screenshot From dairtv1 YouTube) ‘Charlie Bit My Finger’ Viral YouTube Video to be Deleted Forever After $760K NFT Sale “Charlie Bit My Finger” one of the most viral YouTube videos that ever made its way throughout the internet initially gaining over 880 million views, was finally sold as an NFT following after “Disaster Girl” and other memes started selling online for a massive amount of money. NFT or non-fungible tokens are commonly known for being about art but what people don’t know is that it can also contain videos…
Amazon would soon complete its acquisition of MGM Studios, otherwise known as Metro-Goldwyn Mayer, in a $9 billion buyout, the second-largest acquisition of the e-commerce company next to Whole Foods. Amazon and Jeff Bezos are growing their company and are taking a popular American media and productions company under their wing, possibly joining Prime Video. (Photo : Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)STOCKTON-ON-TEES, ENGLAND – NOVEMBER 25: A cardboard figure of actor Timothy Dalton is displayed during a James Bond memorabilia auction on November 25, 2015 in Stockton-on-Tees, England. Around 700 lots of collectables spanning every James Bond film produced to date were…
President Joe Biden on Monday said the forced diversion by Belarus of a commercial passenger jet so it could arrest an opposition journalist was “a direct affront to international norms” and condemned the action as an “outrageous incident.”Biden made the statement — and joined calls for an international investigation — as the European Union imposed sanctions against Belarus, including banning its airlines from using the airspace and airports in the 27-nation bloc in reaction to Sunday’s forced diversion of the Lithuania-bound Ryanair flight. The flight had originated from Greece, but was forced to land in Minsk.Also Read: EU to impose…
Pressure was building Monday for a tough international response to Belarus’s forced landing of a European airliner so it could arrest an opposition activist.The Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius carrying dissident journalist Roman Protasevich was diverted while in Belarusian airspace on Sunday over a supposed bomb threat.Accompanied by a Belarusian fighter jet on the orders of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, the plane landed in the capital Minsk where Protasevich, a 26-year-old who had been living in Lithuania, was arrested along with his Russian girlfriend.The move sparked an international outcry, with Western leaders accusing Belarusian authorities of essentially hijacking a…
The US Capitol stood unprotected by National Guard troops for the first time in nearly five months Monday as concerns about right-wing extremist threats have diminished since the January 6 attacks.The last 2,149 of what had been nearly 26,000 troops in an extraordinary deployment in Washington departed over the weekend as their mission to protect Congress formally ended.The troops were mobilized after hundreds of supporters of then-president Donald Trump stormed the Capitol, halting the joint session of Congress to confirm Trump’s rival Joe Biden as winner of the presidential election.Some broke into lawmakers’ offices, and called for the killing of…
Gordon Sondland, the Trump administration’s ambassador to the European Union and a pivotal witness in 2019 impeachment proceedings, sued former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday in an effort to recover $1.8 million he racked up in legal expenses.Sondland alleges in the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, that Pompeo had committed to reimburse his legal expenses after he was subpoenaed by House Democrats to testify in an impeachment case that accused then-President Donald Trump of withholding military aid from Ukraine while demanding an investigation into political rival Joe Biden and his son Hunter.Instead, Sondland says, Pompeo “reneged…
The European Union agreed Monday to impose sanctions on Belarus, including banning its airlines from using the airspace and airports of the 27-nation bloc, amid fury over the forced diversion of a passenger jet to arrest an opposition journalist.Reacting to what EU leaders called a brazen “hijacking” of the Ryanair jetliner flying from Greece to Lithuania on Sunday, they also demanded the immediate release of the journalist, Raman Pratasevich, a key foe of authoritarian Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.“We won’t tolerate that one can try to play Russian roulette with the lives of innocent civilians,” said EU Council chief Charles Michel,…
Elon Musk has invited people to help develop Dogecoin and submit their ideas via GitHub or Reddit’s r/dogecoin, alongside announcing his recent conversation with Bitcoin’s North American miners. The NA region that mines Bitcoin (BTC) has already committed to going renewable with its energy consumption, hinting that it still holds on to the cryptocurrency. (Photo : Robyn Beck-Pool/Getty Images)HAWTHORNE, CA – DECEMBER 18: Elon Musk, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Tesla Inc., speaks at an unveiling event for The Boring Company Hawthorne test tunnel December 18, 2018 in Hawthorne, California. On Tuesday night, The Boring Company will officially open…