2+ hour, 29+ min ago   (351+ words) Waymo is owned by Google's parent company, Alphabet Lyft and Uber drivers staged a protest in San Francisco on Friday, demanding stricter regulation of Waymo's self-driving taxis. The demonstration, held outside the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) offices, called for…...

13+ hour, 18+ min ago   (580+ words) Storm Goretti will ease away on Friday, but it won't be long until the UK sees snowfall again Parts of the UK are buried under heavy snow and ice after what officials say could be the "worst snowfall in a…...

17+ hour, 51+ min ago   (511+ words) Lenovo, Asus and HP will be rolling out Windows laptops boasting the new Snapdragon X2 chips later this year I'm a MacBook devotee. Every time I've switched to a Windows laptop for testing purposes, I've come away feeling even less convinced....

18+ hour, 33+ min ago   (342+ words) Drivers for Lyft and Uber protested self-driving Waymo taxis in San Francisco on Friday, urging state regulators to exercise greater oversight of autonomous vehicles, given recent events in which the cars killed pets and blocked traffic. About two dozen drivers…...

19+ hour, 51+ min ago   (372+ words) Project Ava is one of the most unnerving things I've seen at CES We've all got pretty used to typing to AI chatbots over the last couple of years. Some people have even formed romantic relationships with AI bots. So,…...

21+ hour, 45+ min ago   (315+ words) Three Lego Star Wars sets can be pre-ordered now, and will launch in March One of the most unexpected announcements at CES 2026 is arguably the biggest change Lego has made to its bricks in decades. Adding a whole new dimension…...

22+ hour, 28+ min ago   (207+ words) Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Another earthquake rattles city plagued by relentless "swarms" of quakes - San Ramon in California has been rattled by a series…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (561+ words) Western automakers are under pressure to keep up with China's push in the adoption of autonomous driving The short history of the self-driving car industry has been littered with expensive failures and endless delays, but tech suppliers, chipmakers including Nvidia…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (86+ words) Luke Reevey | Friday 09 January 2026 18:00 GMT X users are generating sexual images of children as young as 13, an AI watchdog has said. Elon Musk's platform's AI bot, Grok, has been used to make sexualised fake images, including explicit non-consensual depictions of…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (129+ words) Camille Chorley | Friday 09 January 2026 15:56 GMT Residents in and around Birmingham were left baffled on Thursday evening (8 January) as the sky turned neon pink during severe winter weather caused by Storm Goretti. As the colour spread across the sky, many residents…...