Arcane has officially ended its second season, but many fans (me included) are still in denial. There were so many memorable moments that fitting them into a list would be astronomically hard.

Image: Uber Uber launched a robotaxi service with its partner WeRide in Abu Dhabi, its first international effort to make a wide number of autonomous vehicles from different operators available on its platform. Customers who use Uber to book a ride will be presented with the option to hail an autonomous vehicle from WeRide. Fares will be upfront and equal to UberX and Uber Comfort prices. The vehicles will include safety drivers, so it won’t be a fully autonomous service at launch. But Uber and WeRide said they aim to offer driverless vehicles to passengers in 2025. The vehicles will include safety drivers Uber first announced its partnership with WeRide, a startup based in Guangzhou, China, last September. WeRide holds driverless operation permits in the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, China, and the US — though Uber has said it isn’t currently considering extending the partnership beyond the UAE. WeRide’s autonomous vehicles in Abu Dhabi have been available to customers through the TXAI app. The company was first granted a permit to test and operate AVs on public roads in the country in July 2023. WeRide was planning on listing its shares in the US at a valuation of $5 billion, but its initial public offering has been delayed, with the company citing a need to complete all the documentation. The company also develops self-driving technology that powers shuttle buses and freight equipment. It first launched in Silicon Valley in 2017 and subsequently was incorporated in the Cayman Islands. Since ending its own efforts to develop self-driving cars in 2020, Uber has sought to become a clearinghouse for any company operating autonomous vehicles in the world. In addition to WeRide, Uber has deals with Cruise, Waymo, Motional, and Avride for self-driving cars and Serve, Cartken, and Nuro for delivery robots.

I stopped using Google Search as my main search engine right in time for the AI revolution. That means I've hardly been exposed to the Search experiments that ultimately grew into AI Overviews. I'm yet to see the latter atop any Search results I might still perform, as they haven't been available in the EU for that long. Overall, I've also stopped experiencing the regular Google Search results. The one thing I miss about it is available to me in Google Maps. I couldn't be happier with my decision, and I see no reason for returning to Google Search, especially since ChatGPT is my default genAI chatbot and not Gemini. Sundar Pichai's recent comments that Google Search will change dramaticalluy next year leave me unexcited given that. I can't help but wonder how Google can make Google Search better, considering one very obvious roadblock it has to deal with, the antitrust loss in a case the US government successfully tried this year. But my curiosity has nothing to do with actually wanting to use Google Search regularly again. It's just that, curiosity about a product that seems unlikely to get better. Continue reading... The post Google Search will change ‘profoundly’ in 2025, Sundar Pichai teases appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Early Black Friday deals: $159 AirPods Pro 2, $99 Ninja blender, $998 Sony 85-inch TV, $199 Bose soundbar, more Sonos has 10 Black Friday deals that are all at record-low prices Best Apple deals for December 2024 Cyber Week deals: $180 iPhone SE 3, $199 Bose QC headphones, $29 Roku Stick 4K, $279 Google Nest WiFi Pro, more

New surveillance video released Thursday showed the alleged killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson leaving a Manhattan subway station roughly 30 minutes before the shooting, the New York Post reported.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom stressed the importance of trade with Mexico and immigrant labor at a press conference near the border on Thursday, striking a contrast with President-elect Donald Trump's threat of tariffs and mass deportations.Newsom, a Democrat, portrayed the...

Boston's City Council on Wednesday voted unanimously to uphold its sanctuary city status ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House, reports the Baltimore Herald.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison defended his party's commitment to racial equity Thursday, drawing on his own identity as a Black man to push back against critics who say Democrats need to abandon "identity politics."

A foreign adversary was most likely behind some incidents of Havana syndrome suffered by more than 300 U.S. national security officials since 2016, a House Intelligence subcommittee revealed Thursday.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta doubled-down on the state's "unwavering commitment" to providing irreversible gender transitioning treatments for minors in the wake of arguments before the Supreme Court regarding Tennessee's ban on such measures.

South Korea's ruling party chief demanded Friday that President Yoon Suk Yeol stand down over his martial law attempt, warning he posed a great danger to the country. The stunning comments from Han Dong-hoon, the head of Yoon's People Power Party, almost guarantees enough ...