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At a vast complex in Warren, Michigan, General Motors' hopes for the future of its driverless cars come to fruition in a virtual reality headset offered to visitors.In one video, the electric, autonomous car drives itself. Wirelessly connected to traffic lights and surrounding roads, the car avoids collisions and reduces congestion, part of what GM calls its “0-0-0” vision – “zero accidents, zero emissions, zero congestion.”At least, that's the plan. GM's driverless future seems much further away today than it did a year ago, when Cruise, GM's driverless car subsidiary, was engaged in an aggressive expansion of its robot taxi services, testing in 15 cities across 10 states .On October 2, a Cruise driverless car hit and dragged a pedestrian 20 feet on a San Francisco stree...

Seeking to capitalize on outrage over Sunday's Israeli attack that set fire to an encampment and killed at least 45 displaced Palestinians, including children, many U.N. Security Council diplomats this week are backing a new resolution that would call for a halt immediate fire and the halt to Israeli military operations in the city of Rafah.But they will have to overcome objections from the United States, which has veto power over the Council and has signaled it will not support the resolution in its current form.Algeria, the only Arab representative in the current composition of the Security Council, drafted and circulated the one-page resolution, which states that “Israel, the occupying Power, will immediately stop its military offensive and any other actions in Rafah." We call for ...

Sue Johnson, a British-born Canadian clinical psychologist and best-selling author who developed a new method of couple therapy based on emotional attachment, challenging what had been the dominant behavioral approach – the idea that behaviors they are learned and therefore can be modified. on April 23 in Victoria, British Columbia. She was 76 years old.Her death, in hospital, was caused by a rare form of melanoma, said her husband, John Douglas.As divorce rates increased in the 1970s, couples therapy flourished. Drawing from traditional psychotherapeutic practices, therapists focused primarily on helping troubled couples communicate more effectively, deepen their education, and “negotiate and bargain,” as Dr. Johnson puts it, over contentious issues like parenting , sex and household c...

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken suggested on Wednesday that the Biden administration might be willing to tolerate attacks by the Ukrainian military inside Russia using American-made weapons, saying the United States will “adapt and adapt” the their position based on changing conditions in the country. the battlefield.Blinken said the United States neither encouraged nor allowed such attacks. But he said Ukrainians must make their own decisions about how to best defend themselves — a position he has stated before — and that the U.S. government has “adapted and adjusted as needed” as the war has evolved.When a reporter asked him if his words “adapt and adapt” meant that the United States might support Ukraine's attacks with American-made weapons inside Russia, he replied: “Adapt a...

A dozen years ago, John Mark Dougan, a former deputy sheriff in Palm Beach County, Fla., sent voters an email posing as a county commissioner, urging them to oppose the re-election of the county’s sheriff.He later masqueraded online as a Russian tech worker with a pseudonym, BadVolf, to leak confidential information in violation of state law, fooling officials in Florida who thought they were dealing with a foreigner.He also posed as a fictional New York City heiress he called Jessica, tricking an adviser to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office into divulging improper conduct by the department.“And boy, did he ever spill ALL of the beans,” Mr. Dougan said in a written response to questions for this article, in which he confirmed his role in these episodes.Those subterfuges in the United ...

The Israeli military said Wednesday evening it had taken "tactical control" over the Philadelphia Corridor - a sensitive strip of Gaza along the border with Egypt - in a move that could further strain Israel's already strained ties with Cairo.Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, an Israeli military spokesman, said the area was "Hamas's oxygen pipe" and had been used by the Palestinian armed group to "regularly smuggle ammunition into Gaza territory." He said Hamas had also built tunnels near the Egyptian border, calculating that Israel would not dare strike so close to Egyptian territory.Israeli officials said seizing the narrow area, about 9 miles long, is crucial to preventing Hamas from rearming itself through cross-border smuggling. “It must be in our hands; it must be closed,” Israe...

Think for a minute about the little bumps on your tongue. You probably saw a diagram of those taste bud arrangements once in a biology textbook: sweet sensors on the tip, salty on both sides, sour in the back, bitter in the back.But the idea that specific tastes are confined to certain areas of the tongue is a myth that "persists in the collective consciousness despite decades of research debunking it," according to an article published this month in the New England Journal of Medicine. The concept that taste is limited to the mouth is also wrong.The old diagram, used in many textbooks over the years, originated in a study published by David Hanig, a German scientist, in 1901. But the scientist wasn't suggesting that the various tastes are separated on the tongue. He was actually me...

When the small town of Valentina in Russia came under heavy shelling in March by Ukrainian forces, her daughter Alla, who lives a short distance across the border near Kharkiv, texted her mother to make sure she was okay .Now that Kharkiv and the surrounding region are under heavy attack from Russia, it is Valentina who is consulting with her daughter to make sure everything goes well. Regular checks continued as fighting intensified on the new front opened by Russia this month.“So he calls me and asks, 'Mom, how's it going there? It's so loud in here. I think there's something heading your way from our direction. Mom, be careful!'” said Valentina, a dual Russian-Ukrainian citizen who did not want to give her full name for fear of repercussions for both her and her ...

Few debates have raged longer and more controversially in the computing industry than one: Is “open source” better than “closed” when it comes to software development?This debate was revived as companies like Google, Meta, OpenAI, and Microsoft differed on how to compete for supremacy in artificial intelligence systems. Some choose a closed model while others embrace an open approach.Here's what to know.What does open source software mean?Source code is the underlying building blocks of the apps you use. Developers can write tens of thousands of lines of source code to create programs that will run on a computer.Open source software is any computer code that can be freely distributed, copied, or modified for the developer's purposes. The nonprofit Open Source Initiative, an indu...