Bill to use AI to vet consumer product safety moves to Senate

The U.S. House of Representatives this week approved and sent to the Senate a bill intended to form a pilot initiative to use artificial intelligence…

Aston Martin Luxury Apartments Are One Way to Take Back Manhattan

Aston Martin has already debuted Aston-branded luxury condos in Miami and Los Angeles, and now it's opening a limited number of freshly designed dwellings in a high-rise in Manhattan's Financial District.Each of the five Aston units comes…

Climate watchdog says Britain lacks a strategy to meet its goals.

An influential watchdog group said on Thursday that the British government was doing far too little to carry out the ambitious pledges it had made on tackling climate change.Although the government has promised to cut its greenhouse emissions…

AWS acquires encrypted messaging app Wickr

(Image: file photo)Amazon Web Services is acquiring the encrypted messaging app Wickr, the company announced Friday. Financial terms of the deal…

Here Are All the Promises Carmakers Have Made about Electric Cars

Volkswagen In the decade since the Nissan Leaf became the first contemporary, mass-produced electric vehicle, plenty of automakers have jumped on the EV bandwagon with their…

Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal Omits Big Climate Measures

“Those two things must go hand in hand for it to have my support,” she said.Some Democratic strategists are skeptical about the budget reconciliation route. Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia and Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona,…

Cloud ‘sticker shock’ explored: we’re spending way too much, some venture capitalists say

Cloud computing is probably the biggest business around these days -- it has become a $100-billion-a-year industry. And there's a chance companies…

INEOS Grenadier SUV to Do Land Mine Clearing in Global War Zones

The INEOS Grenadier SUV will be sent to Kosovo for land-mine-clearing work with the weapons-disposal charity Halo Trust in a testing phase.The automaker intends to build special Grenadiers for demining work once production starts. They'll…

Biden Administration Backs Oil Sands Pipeline Project

The Biden administration has defended a contentious pipeline project that would carry hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil through Minnesota’s delicate watersheds, urging in a court brief that a challenge brought by local tribes and…

Will your PC run Windows 11? Even Microsoft can’t say for sure

June 25, 2:15 PM Pacific: This post has been updated multiple times since its initial publication to reflect Microsoft's scrambling to clean up…