Wheels: Self-driving Cars Might Need Standards, But Whose?

Musk took the stage at Cannes Lions to hold court and sell X as an ad platform. When Elon Musk was on stage at the Dealbook conference last November, he had a message for advertisers who had left ​​his X platform (formerly Twitter) after he clattered out a number of antisemitic posts. 

Climate change also made the heat waves 35 times more likely to happen. Human-caused climate change dialed up the thermostat and turbocharged the odds of this month’s killer heat that has been baking the Southwestern United States, Mexico and Central America, a new flash study found. Sizzling daytime temperatures that triggered cases of heat stroke in parts of the United States were 35 times more likely and 2.5 degrees hotter (1.4 degrees Celsius) because of the warming from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas, World Weather Attribution, a collection of scientists that run rapid and non-peer reviewed climate attribution studies, calculated Thursday.“It’s an oven here; you can’t stay here,” 82-year-old Magarita Salazar Pérez of Veracruz, Mexico, said in her home with no air conditioning.

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Future Forward USA is backed by tech giants like Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz and LinkedIn founder Reed Hoffman. U. S. President Joe Biden’s main re-election Super PAC is raising millions of dollars to try to solve a problem vexing Democrats: how to compete with Republican Donald Trump’s social media machine that spits out a wall of viral videos.

Few things are more demoralizing than to not get credit for your original ideas. That’s why a culture of recognition is key to a healthier workplace environment, this equity advocate says. Have you ever been in a meeting and shared an idea . . . and then later in the meeting someone else repeated it and got credit for it?

The families said the Justice Department could suspend a large portion of the fine if the funds are devoted to safety improvements. Relatives of the victims of two fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes asked the Justice Department on Wednesday to seek a fine against the planemaker of up to $24.78 billion and move forward with a criminal prosecution.