Month: March 2022
Waymo says fully driverless rides are coming to San Francisco
Waymo plans to start offering rides in its fully autonomous vehicles — without human safety drivers behind the wheel — in San Francisco. The Google spinoff says its driverless vehicles will only be available to employees at first but will soon grow to include members of the company’s “Trusted Tester”…
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Hidden Google Docs feature will turn you into a productivity machine
Audio player loading… Google has announced it is adding Markdown support to Google Docs, a big win for the community of people that absolutely love the popular markup language. For those unfamiliar, Markdown, created by John Gruber, is a lightweight language specifically designed to make marking up (adding formatting elements)…
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Etsy sellers will go on strike in April and want customers to boycott
In February, Etsy CEO Josh Silverman had good news to share with investors: sales and revenue were at an all-time high, sending Etsy stock soaring. At the same time, Silverman had less welcome news for sellers, delivered via email: transaction fees were going up, from 5 percent to 6.5 percent,…
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FedEx will test autonomous cargo flights next year
FedEx plans to test a different method of moving goods between depots starting next year, which could speed up the delivery process. The company has teamed up with Elroy Air, which is developing a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) cargo drone, to transport packages between sorting centers via autonomous flights.…
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BT puts the brakes on digital landline switchover – here’s what that means for you
Audio player loading… BT has paused the migration of landline users from the old analogue phone system after admitting that it needed to take additional measures to reassure customers of the quality and reliability of the new digital voice service. Digital voice services use a fibre network rather than a…
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Upcoming Windows 11 update could improve how you copy and paste
Audio player loading… Windows 11 looks like it could offer some smart new tricks with copying and pasting in the future, including intelligently determining what you’re cutting or copying, then offering to open a relevant app to paste into. Windows Latest uncovered clues pertaining to a Smart Clipboard and Smart…
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