In some San Francisco neighborhoods, vehicles with no driver behind the wheel have turn out to be a standard sight. Most of the metropolis’s ghostly driverless vehicles are business robotaxis, instantly competing with taxis and ride-hailing firms.Â
I spent the previous 12 months overlaying robotaxis for the San Francisco Examiner and have taken practically a dozen rides in Cruise driverless vehicles over the previous few months. Throughout my reporting, I’ve been struck by the shortage of urgency within the public discourse about robotaxis. It’s excessive time for the general public and its elected representatives to play a extra energetic position in shaping the way forward for this new expertise. Prefer it or not, robotaxis are right here.Â
Now comes the troublesome work of deciding what to do about them. Learn the total story.
The chip patterning machines that can form computing’s subsequent act
After we discuss computing as of late, we have a tendency to speak about software program and the engineers who write it. However with out the {hardware} and the bodily sciences that enabled their creation—disciplines like optics, supplies science, and mechanical engineering—fashionable computing would have been not possible.
Semiconductor lithography, the manufacturing course of accountable for producing laptop chips, stands on the heart of a geopolitical competitors to manage the way forward for computing energy. And the pace at which new lithography programs and parts are developed will form not solely the pace of computing progress but additionally the steadiness of energy and earnings throughout the tech business. Learn the total story.
—Chris Miller
