Waymo announced that Washington, DC will be its next robotaxi city. The company aims to launch its Waymo One ridehailing service in the nation’s capitol in 2026 — though it acknowledged that it will first need to change the city law prohibiting fully autonomous vehicles without safety drivers. Currently, companies that want to test autonomous vehicles in DC are required to have a human driver behind the steering wheel in case something goes wrong. Tech advocates have been pressing the city council to loosen the restrictions to allow fully autonomous vehicles on public roads. A spokesperson for the DC transportation department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.The Alphabet-owned company’s manually driven vehicles have been spotted around DC since last year. A Waymo product manager told a local news outlet that the company was primarily focused on neighborhoods like Dupont Circle, Foggy Bottom, and Penn Quarter. Waymo has not commented on the size of its service area nor which neighborhoods it is targeting if it launches next year. The Alphabet-owned company’s manually driven vehicles have been spotted around DC since last year.Launching a robotaxi service in the heart of the federal government is a risky move. The feds have largely taken a back seat in regulating autonomous vehicles, leaving it to the states to develop their own rulebooks for safe deployment. Legislation that would dramatically increase the number of AVs on the road has been stalled in Congress for over seven years, with lawmakers at odds over a range of issues, including safety, liability, and the right number of exemptions from federal motor vehicle safety standards. But beyond that, DC is its own city with its own transportation challenges. It has some of the worst traffic congestion in the US thanks to an ever-expanding population and stagnate infrastructure. Waymo hasn’t said how many vehicles it intends to bring to DC. Waymo currently operates its driverless ridehailing vehicles in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix. It recently launched a partnership with Uber in Austin, and it plans to expand that deal to Atlanta later this year. It also plans to operate robotaxis in Silicon Valley and Miami. In DC, customers will use the company’s ridehail app, Waymo One, to summon driverless vehicles. Waymo currently provides 200,000 passenger trips a week using the app. DC has seen some autonomous testing before. Cruise, General Motors’ now-defunct AV subsidiary, tested several of its vehicles there. Another defunct company, Ford-backed Argo AI, has also previously tested autonomous vehicles in the district. Waymo markets itself as a safer option than human-driven vehicles. The company has released insurance data that shows its vehicles cause less property damage and fewer bodily injuries when they crash than human drivers.

Have you been thinking about upgrading your laptop or desktop PC with more storage? Well, this Seagate 1TB Gen4 M.2 SSD might just be the thing you need if you're looking to get a quality SSD for less. For a limited time, Newegg is offering a substantial discount on this drive as it drops to one of its lowest prices to date at just $67. You can grab this discount by applying the discount code "SEGTESSD246" during the checkout process.

The Microsoft Photos app may not be as popular as some of the company's productivity tools, but it offers advanced features like OCR support to enhance your workflows. What's even better is that Microsoft keeps pushing updates to the Photos app so that Windows users don't have to look elsewhere for light photo editing work. Continuing the trend, the company has just released another update to its Photos app, both for Windows 11 and 10 devices.

Like many, I initially approached Docker with a mix of curiosity and enthusiasm. The promise of consistent environments and simplified deployments seemed too good to be true. However, after experimenting with a variety of containers, I have become a true believer. Now, I’m at the point where I can’t imagine working without them. These containers aren't just tools; they've become essential components of my workflow and home lab.

The note-taking app frontier is chock-full of unique tools, each offering its own unique facilities. For coding enthusiasts, you’ve got SilverBullet, while Google Keep is great for minimalism-loving users who prefer Google’s application suite. On the to-do list builder front, you’ve got Todoist and its self-hosted alternative, Vikunja. Then there’s Obsidian, an all-rounder tool that’s favored by the entire note-taking community.

When you’re working remotely, you need a couple of essential tools to increase your productivity and keep up with your work. The must-have tools have to cover basic needs such as seamless communication, task management, automation, note-taking, and more. I prepared a list of productivity tools to get you started right away.

Among all the components involved in a PC build, the CPU cooler might be among the trickiest ones to install. Whether utilizing liquid or air, coolers tend to be large, cumbersome pieces of hardware that can be difficult to work around. Whether you're tackling your first PC build or it's just been a few years since you've gone under the hood, it might be useful to have a refresher on what mistakes to avoid.

The big draw about 3D printers is that you can feed it something to print, leave it to its own devices, and it'll automatically create a model for you. However, there are times when you need to apply some manual tweaks to get the job done properly. One avid 3D printer hobbyist found a way to wire up the manual actions to an NES controller, so it really feels like you're "playing" the printer.

Nvidia’s G-Assist was originally an April Fools’ prank in 2017 before becoming a real tech demo last year and a functioning AI assistant for RTX GPU owners today. Project G-Assist is now available inside the Nvidia app, and will help to optimize game and system settings, measure frame rates, and even change the lighting on connected devices.G-Assist works as an AI assistant through voice or text prompts, so you can ask questions like “How does DLSS Frame Generation work?” and the assistant will give you a ChatGPT-like output. Where it gets a lot more interesting is the ability to ask G-Assist to optimize games for the best performance or image quality, or have it control the lighting of supported devices from Logitech, Corsair, MSI, and Nanoleaf.You can even ask G-Assist to analyze and optimize your entire PC, so it will detect if a game has a frame rate limiter, whether performance of your GPU is limited, and what you can do to improve overall performance. It can even detect if refresh rates aren’t maxed out on a display and recommend options like overclocking a GPU or lowering in-game resolutions to hit a desired frame rate.G-Assist uses a local small language model that requires nearly 10GB of space for the assistant functions and voice capabilities. The AI assistant works on a variety of RTX 30-, 40-, and 50-series desktop GPUs, but you’ll need a card with at least 12GB of VRAM.G-Assist is available as an optional part of an update to the Nvidia app that also includes new DLSS override options and the ability to adjust display scaling and color settings. You can download Nvidia’s app right here.

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There's nothing more pleasing than the smell of warm electronics exhaust. If you don't believe me, just ask Steam Deck users who were so into breathing in the fumes from the ventilation that Valve had to step in and tell people to stop huffing the handheld. Well, now everyone has an excuse to push their nose up against the back grills of their PCs, as an AMD card manufacturer is creating GPUs that emit a pleasant scent.

Notion integrations offer powerful connections for the productivity platform, but when looking for self-hosted services, many popular apps are noticeably missing. This doesn't mean that integrations with Notion aren't possible, however, especially since the platform allows custom integrations with its API.