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Waymo Recalls Robotaxis After Cars Drive Into Construction Zones Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, Waymo has recalled its entire fleet of vehicles after some of its driverless cars were caught speeding into freeway construction zones. The voluntary recall on June 13 of the California-based tech company’s 3,871 vehicles is to fix its 5th-generation Automated Driving System (ADS) software so that it will recognize and avoid construction zones. “Waymo’s mission is to be the world’s most trusted driver, and the data shows that we’re making roads safer in the communities in...

It Was All A Mirage: 2.5 Million Native-Born US Workers Were Just Revised Away One of Donald Trump's core pre-election promises (along with cracking down on immigration and no more foreign wars) was to boost employment for local-born Americans at the expense of the record employment for foreign-born, mostly illegal, workers. And for a while it worked: four months ago, when discussing the September jobs report, we said that while the broader report was generally mixed, it was "indisputably strong when it comes to one thing: the rotation from foreign...

Seattle Mayor Targets 'Surveillance Pricing' At Grocery Stores Seattle leaders are moving forward with a first-of-its-kind proposal aimed at preventing grocery retailers from using consumers' personal data to charge different prices for the same products. The ordinance, backed by Mayor Katie Wilson and City Councilmembers Alexis Mercedes Rinck and Dionne Foster, would prohibit large grocery chains from using information such as browsing history, social media activity, employment status, race, gender, or chatbot interactions to personalize prices, according to Wilson's website.  Instead, retailers would be required to publicly display uniform prices while still...