Prince Harry and his former actress wife, Meghan, fled the UK earlier this year and are searching for a home in Los Angeles. Stanley Johnson took a swipe in the Saga Magazine.

An couple from Hobart, Indiana allegedly drove a pair of twin teenage boys off a road they were bicycling along with flags in support of President Donald Trump, according to local police.

Ryan Giggs says Tom Lawrence should be able to 'get on with his career' while he awaits his fate in his drink-drive case. Lawrence has been selected for Wales' European qualifiers.

In this edition we look at the implications of the recent amendent to the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ), the performance of the present government which completed one year in the office, the poor menstrual hygiene effecting our older school-going girls, the sad state of sanitary conditions in the slums of Assam, how Muslim women are stepping out to set up businesses in Kashmir while in Uttar Pradesh they suffer as their husbands are being branded a terrorist, the review of Harsh Mander's latest book, and much more.

Despite notoriously variable and low earnings, close to 30% of the male population in Bilaspur's Chingrajpara slum are cycle-rickshaw pullers. Third in the SLUM DIARIES series, Ashima Sood cuts across boundaries to chronicle the forces impinging on the pullers' livelihoods.

Our government and the National Security Adviser are promoting 'defensive offence' as India's Pakistan strategy. Firdaus Ahmed explains why that's not the case and that our strategy is more 'offensive-compellence' than 'defensive offence'.

With private car ownership in the large cities outpacing population growth, the central government is waking up to the need to introduce traffic restraint schemes in the metros, writes Darryl D'Monte.

Red Bull's Verstappen has gained a reputation as an aggressive driver prepared to take risks in Formula One.

US is currently weighing punitive actions against China over its early handling of the global health emergency.

For those of you who don’t know, LiDAR stands for Light Detection and Ranging. It emits millions of pulses of laser light to create a 3D map of its surroundings.

The Tata Nexon EV driving range is expected to increase with future updates made to the compact-SUV. Future updates are also expected to improve Nexon EV's performance as well.

After being sidelined as a non-essential business, some self-driving car companies can put their vehicles back on the roads to make food and other deliveries - a win-win scenario that allows them to continue testing their nascent technology.

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If Uber is going to make its dreams of self-driving ridesharing cars a reality, it is going to need a lot of expertise in artificial intelligence... and it is taking big steps to make that happen. The company has created Uber AI Labs to fuel its research, and it is getting the team started by acquiring AI startup Geometric Intelligence.

This is also a preemptive strike against the competition. The company tells the NYT that there is a fierce battle for AI talent -- acquiring Geometric Intelligence prevents Uber from losing out to Lyft, Google and others hoping to put machine learning to work on the road.

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Last week, the APA released a study finding that Americans were experiencing the first statistically significant stress increase in the surveys 10-year history. In January, 57 percent of respondents of all political stripes said the U.S. political climate was a very or somewhat significant source of stress, up from 52 percent who said the same thing in August.

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Due to popular demand, I'm sharing instructions for setting the email preferences on the LibraryWestStaff wiki. PBwiki seems to default to hourly updates of changes. With all of the shift trading on Ask A, the InfoPoint and the Reference Assistance Desk, this can result in quite a few emails during the day. Luckily you can reset your wiki preferences to no email, or only a daily email. Here is how:

1. Sign on to the LibraryWestStaff wiki in PBwiki.
2. Navigate to the My PBwiki page. (If you are not at this page, click on your email address at the top right to get to it.)
3. Look for the Preferences pulldown, in the middle of the page. Set your email preferences to "never," or whatever time interval suits you.

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Udacity CEO and co-founder Sebastian Thrun explains why self-driving cars are the future and Holy Grail for road safety. In this World Economic Forum discussion, the engineer and innovator describes how the auto-cruising vehicles will transform society and save lives.

Google's self-driving car may look and sound like a giant Roomba but they may also be part of the future of automobile transportation.

We hop behind the wheel of the resurrected Revero—formerly known as the Fisker Karma—to see if the electric car can make its second chance at life a success.

Exploring everything from the radars and camera to the Mario Kart easter egg, our roadtrip shows Tesla’s autopilot works well—but it's no self-driving wunderkind.

The ride-sharing giant is in Pittsburgh for its latest big move: the country’s first autonomous taxi service. Select Uber users can now ride in self-driving cars, with humans at the wheel for an emergency.

By this point, self driving cars are a common sight in Silicon Valley and Google’s fleet of nearly 60 autonomous cars hit a milestone: They have now clocked more than two million miles of driving on public streets.

WIRED guest editor President Barack Obama, WIRED editor in chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito discuss ethical concerns around artificial intelligence used in self-driving cars.

A truck carrying 50,000 beers spent two hours driving itself down a Colorado highway.

Google is getting serious about self-driving cars. So serious that it put a legally blind man in one that drove him around safely on his own. The successful trip means that the tech giant can now launch its own self-driving car company, which it's calling Waymo.

2016 was the year that self-driving vehicles really took off. WIRED looks back at how much transportation is being changed by autonomous cars, trucks, and drones.

WIRED predicts the biggest trends for the year ahead. In this segment Alex Davies lays out the five biggest disruptions coming to the world of transport.

Self-driving cars will totally eliminate traffic deaths, right? Nope. In fact, on rare occasions they'll choose to kill.

Cadillac's new self-driving car isn't just watching the road, it's watching the driver. The system it calls "super cruise" is designed to crack the so-called "hand-off" problem.

A man dressed as a car seat to fool pedestrians and drivers into believing his van was driving itself. It's hilarious, but it's all in the name of autonomous vehicle research.

Explore the tech moments that redefine what's possible with Designer Thomas Meyerhoffer, from the birth of the Internet to tomorrow's cutting-edge innovations.

A decade ago, the idea of self-driving cars on American city streets was almost unthinkable. But a series of contests spurred the development of software and hardware that have brought us to dawn of the next automotive revolution.

Ride hailing company Uber took to the streets of Pittsburgh in late 2016 with self-driving cars. Here's what riders and the company learned from letting robots take the wheel.

Also known as the spinning thing atop self-driving cars, lidar is the technology that could unlock autonomy for everybody.

Starsky heat up the competition for driverless trucks with its first closed road test of a completely driverless car.

On Sunday evening, a self-driving Uber struck and killed a woman crossing the street in Tempe, Arizona. The crash appears to be the first time a self-driving vehicle has killed someone, and it could alter the course of the burgeoning autonomous driving industry.

Produced by WIRED Brand Lab for AT&T Self-driving cars are close to becoming a universal reality and connectivity plays a vital part in their operation. The more data a self-driving car can access, the better it can learn to operate safely and efficiently. Learn how AT&T's new mobile 5g network will provide the support necessary for self-driving cars to take the next step from concept to commonplace.

Wyatt Knox, Special Projects Director at the Team O'Neil Rally School, is a true technician behind the steering wheel. Wyatt explains the different techniques he teaches to special operations personnel, including the pit maneuver, driving in reverse at high speeds, and taking over when the driver goes down.

Wyatt Knox, Special Projects Director at the Team O'Neil Rally School, takes a look at driving scenes from a variety of television shows and movies and breaks down how accurate they really are.

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This week, new estimates for the depths of the world’s lakes, a video game that could help kids be safer bike riders, and teaching autonomous cars to read road signs with Online News Editor David Grimm. And Ariana Orvell joins Sarah Crespi to discuss her study of how the word “you” is used when people recount meaningful experiences. Listen to previous podcasts. Download the show transcript. Transcripts courtesy of Scribie.com. [Image: VisualCommunications/iStockphoto; Music: Jeffrey Cook]

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Moovit will remain independent while its technology and the data it collects from more than 800 million users in 102 countries will be integrated into Intel's autonomous car unit Mobileye

Two persons died and four of their friends were injured in a road accident on Wednesday evening at Shankarpalli. The person driving the car, Satish, was allegedly in a drunken state and lost control over the car, following which it landed in an agricultural field.