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2024-11-12 18:32:37| Engadget

Waymo has announced expanded availability of its driverless rideshare service throughout Los Angeles. Thats right. Waymo One is now available to all customers anywhere in LA county, which is 80 square miles. The company has dropped the waitlist for area residents. Now LA residents will get to experience sitting in endless traffic with a series of cameras and navigational algos leading the way instead of a person. This expanded service starts today and it offers fully autonomous rides at any time of the day or night. Lets hear it for some drunken late night bonding with an algorithm. Waymo also says itll further expand the service area in the future. After all, Los Angeles comprises five counties.  Its been offering driverless rides to LA customers for a while now, but with a mandatory waitlist. Waymo One also started small in San Francisco and Phoenix before announcing similar expansions. The service will be coming to Austin and Atlanta in the near future. All told, the company says over 300,000 Los Angeles residents have joined the waitlist for the service and Waymo One has completed hundreds of thousands of paid trips across the city. Waymo says these driverless rides are also highly rated, with an average rating of 4.7 stars out of five. A recent survey indicated that 98 percent of customers are satisfied with the service.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/transportation/waymos-driverless-cars-in-la-county-are-now-available-to-everyone-173237519.html?src=rss


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2024-11-12 18:09:20| Engadget

If you use Chrome on your iPhone, youre about to see some features sliding over from the Android version. Google Lens will let you add text to your image searches, and you can save files and pictures directly to Google Drive and Photos. You can get Shopping Insights for products youre browsing. Chrome for iOS now lets you add words to your Google Lens visual searches, allowing you to add nuance to your query or perform more complex and specific searches, as Chrome Product Manager Katia Muradyan wrote in a blog post. After activating Lens by tapping the camera icon in the Chrome search bar, you can ask questions about the object youre snapping a pic of, and it will produce corresponding results. Google says AI Overviews will also appear for some of these search results. The feature shares some common ground with an Apple Intelligence feature for iPhone 16 owners in iOS 18.2, which is currently in beta. Visual Intelligence lets you point your camera at something and get info about it, including asking ChatGPT questions about it or searching for it on Google. Chrome for iPhone now has a feature that lets you save a file directly to Google Drive or Google Photos, sparing you from using your phones internal storage. When saving files from Chrome, youll see a new option to save the file to Drive. Similarly, when browsing a photo you want to save, long-press on it, and youll see a new Save in Google Photos option in the context menu. Of course, the feature requires you to be signed into a Google account. Chrome for iOS also adds a feature that pops up a mini-map when you click on an address. Look for an underlined link to specific addresses; clicking on it will take you to the mini-map without leaving the browser. Finally, Google is adding Shopping Insights for US users. The company frames it as a way to help you find great prices on items youre shopping for, but its hard to imagine this feature exists strictly from the kindness of Google's heart. Regardless, youll soon see a Good Deal Now alert in Chromes address bar when browsing for products for which its available. Youll see details like price history / tracking and buying options if you tap it.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/chrome-for-ios-now-lets-you-add-text-to-google-lens-visual-searches-170920556.html?src=rss


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2024-11-12 17:55:43| Engadget

Climate activists won against Shell in 2021 when a Dutch court commanded the oil giant to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by the end of 2030. Three years later, Shell managed to win its appeal against this ruling. In the court's view, Shell doesnt have a social standard of care to curtail emissions, the BBC reports. The 2021 ruling was noteworthy, as it was the first time a court made a private company obey the 2015 Paris Agreement in addition to Dutch law. However, the appeals court judge said that while Shell had an obligation to reduce emissions, a 45 percent cut could not be established as there is no universally accepted amount. Shells statement says its planning to reduce its products carbon intensity by a comparatively paltry 15 to 20 percent by 2030 compared to a 2016 baseline. The 2021 ruling would only be effective in the Netherlands as well. Shell wouldnt have been legally obligated to follow the lower court's ruling for its operations outside Dutch territory. Now even that small gain is off the table for now. The activists, who are largely associated with Milieudefensie (the Dutch branch of Friends of the Earth), issued a statement promising to continue the fight against climate change. Large polluters are powerful. But united, we as people have the power to change them, said Donald Pols, Director of Milieudefensie. Theyre now trying to take the case to the Supreme Court, but getting a final verdict will likely take years.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/science/shell-wins-appeal-in-dutch-court-after-three-year-battle-against-green-groups-165543894.html?src=rss


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