Google Maps is one of the company’s core products, which means it hasn’t escaped the shift to Gemini. There will be more opportunities to converse with a robot in Google Maps starting today, but there’s also a new navigation experience on the way. The revamped navigation isn’t as explicitly focused on the AI revolution, but Google stresses Gemini is still key to making it work.
The latest AI shift in Maps is called Ask Maps, and you can probably guess what it does just from its title. Ask Maps is a Gemini-powered conversational system that can plan trips and answer complex questions about locations across the app’s millions of cataloged points of interest.
Ask Maps, Reservation
The new chatbot will be accessible via a button up near the search bar. You can ask it anything you’re likely to find in Google Maps without jumping into another app. You can ask for directions, of course, but it can also plan out road trips and vacations from a single prompt. Ask Maps works like a chatbot, so it accepts follow-up prompts to refine and expand on its suggestions.
Your home has a style, but that style was decided for you long before you went into a store. Those decisions were made by buyers who attend shows like The Inspired Home Show, where popular brands from around the world showcase their latest housewares to retailers, who then stock those products in the stores we shop. As a new homeowner myself, I wanted to see what’s coming to stores, so I planned to attend The Inspired Home Show in Chicago from March 10-12. Suffice it to say, there’s a lot to see.
What is The Inspired Home Show?
The Inspired Home Show is organized by the International Housewares Association, a nonprofit trade organization committed to “maximizing the success of the home and housewares industry.” They host the show annually in March, with over 2,000 brands in attendance to showcase their products, network with buyers and tastemakers, and share the latest housewares trends and innovations. The trade show is broken into four categories: “Clean + Contain,” “Dine + Decor,” “Wired + Well,” and International Sourcing.
How attending a housewares expo changed the way I’ll shop
When I bought my first home in November, I began to realize how much discoverability played a role in what I put into my home. Much like how the tables at my local bookstore or the first page of search results that determine what I read, the stock at retailers like Walmart, Home Depot, or Target often shapes the possibilities for my kitchen’s function, the organization in my linen closet, and the appliances on my counter long before the thought crosses my mind. Admittedly, I don’t often care about those things—I rarely find the shelves of big-box stores lacking in options, let alone online shopping as a whole—but I chose to approach the expo with the imagination of a fantasy draft night. Stores are making picks, but what if I don’t like their choices? Being more aware of brands and their products allows me to make my own.
Being aware of brands, products, and sales is generally part of my job, but as a tech-focused brand, my attention leans far more toward Apple, Google, and Microsoft than toward Dreo, Carote, and Vacane. The prevalence of online shopping for tech makes my options for the best tablets, fitness trackers, and digital notebooks feel meaningful. But since becoming a homeowner, I’ve come to realize the prevalence of housewares and home tech is just as broad, only its options are much less known. The more I learned to view housewares, tools, and home tech as a spectrum of countless brands, the more I want to be able to separate the wheat from the chaff.
The housewares market is full of cheap, low-quality crap, and for most of my life, I furnished my apartments with kitchenware, appliances, and cleaning tools as inexpensively as possible. Much of that was due to financial constraints, which I understand only too well. I rolled my eyes when I was told that “there’s nothing more expensive than cheap shoes” when cheap shoes were all I could afford. But my habit of buying cheap housewares persisted for two reasons: a resistance to consumer manipulation (I still remember the first infomercial product I bought as a teen that turned out to be junk), and the belief that housewares brands were all the same.
The first of those reasons remains. I religiously use ad blockers online, snooze algorithmic suggestions on social media, and block brands on Instagram. To date, I have nearly 10,000 accounts blocked on Instagram alone, where I manually block every account that tries to sell me a product I don’t need.
Credit: Jordan Calhoun
But the belief that all housewares brands are the same has fallen apart, and walking the showroom floor at a convention dedicated to the industry’s evolution reminds me just how much thought goes into an industry I once easily ignored.
Check out the 2026 Global Innovation Awards winners
Of course, not everyone can attend trade shows, especially ones closed to the public. And while your own brand opinions may come from personal trial and error, word of mouth, YouTubers, or online forums, I hope to include more home-related expos and conventions in the mix. Only when we know what’s available can we make more informed choices of our own, directly from the companies we trust, rather than limiting ourselves to store shelves. To that end, take a look at the winners of the International Housewares Association’s 2026 Global Innovation Awards. You can also check out my experience at the Inventors Corner, where 32 smaller brands share their niche houseware innovations that they hope catch on. Finally, you can stay tuned for the coolest brands I saw at The Home Innovation Show by subscribing to our Home & Garden newsletter, Smarter Home & Living.
In recent weeks, Google has been busy adding AI features to all of its most popular apps. Following Gmail and Chrome, Maps is now the latest service to get a Gemini makeover, with a redesign of the driving experience headlining the update.
Google is billing the new “Immersive Navigation” mode as the most significant update to driving directions in Maps in about a decade. Now instead of displaying a 2D map of the area around your car, Maps will render the surroundings in 3D. Google believes this transformation will make it easier for drivers to orient themselves, with the new view giving greater depth to nearby landmarks like buildings and overpasses.
Behind the scenes, the company’s Gemini models power the experience, deciding how to render elements to remove distractions. Pulling information from Google’s Street View database and aerial photos, Google says its models are also smart enough to know when to highlight road elements like crosswalks, traffic lights and stop signs to ensure you don’t miss an off ramp or important turn. At the same time, Google has made the voice guidance in Maps sound more natural. For instance, when you’re driving along the highway, looking for where you need to get off, the voice assistant will say something along the lines of “go past this exit and take the next one.” I imagine this will be especially helpful when driving in a foreign country with unfamiliar road names.
The new intelligence Google has built into the redesigned navigation experience extends to alternative routes. Now, when the app suggests taking a different way of getting somewhere, it will detail the associated tradeoffs with that route. For example, it might tell you it might take longer to travel but you’ll encounter less traffic along the way. Before you start your journey, Maps will now also provide a Street View preview of your destination and recommend where to park.
This being a new release in Google’s self-proclaimed Gemini era, the company has naturally found a way to add its chatbot to Maps. Inside the app, you’ll find a new icon labelled Ask Maps. Tap the icon, write a natural language prompt and Gemini will use all the information contained within Maps to craft a response.
Google is pitching the feature as a way to get information no traditional map can provide. For example, you could ask Gemini to find you a place where you can charge your phone and grab a cup of coffee, all without having to wait a long time in line. Google suggests finding the answer to a specific question like that would have previously required sifting through countless reviews. Not so anymore. The results Gemini produces through Ask Maps will contain personalized results based on places you searched for and saved in the past. You can also act on any recommendations Gemini surfaces, making it easy to book restaurants, save locations and more.
Google is starting to roll out the new immersive driving experience today in the US, with availability to expand over the coming months to Android and iOS devices, as well as CarPlay, Android Auto and cars with Google built-in. Ask Maps, meanwhile, is rolling out to Android and iOS devices in the US and India, with desktop support coming soon.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/google-maps-brings-a-3d-map-to-your-driving-directions-123000843.html?src=rss
Mesa 26.0.2 is now available as the latest bi-weekly stable point release for this set of open-source graphics drivers predominantly used on Linux systems…
JBL just released two new pairs of headphones in its pre-existing Live line. There’s the over-ear Live 780NC and the on-ear Live 680NC.
Both sets of headphones have similar specs, despite the difference in design. The biggest news here is likely the battery life. They max out at 80 hours per charge with regular use, which is a fantastic metric. This shrinks to 50 hours when using ANC, but that’s still fairly remarkable. We truly live in a golden age of wireless headphone batteries.
JBL’s new headphones can also fully charge in just two hours, which is nice. They also offer the option for multi-point connections. There are two dedicated microphones for phone calls, with clarity assisted by an AI algorithm.
JBL
Both can stream high resolution audio via Bluetooth or a wired connection. The models even look similar, with availability in the same seven colorways. The 680NC, however, is slightly lighter.
There is one major difference between the two. The 780NC includes six microphones for ANC, while the 680NC features four. This likely means that ANC performance will be better with the former, which will be assisted by the design itself. Over-ear headphones offer passive noise isolation.
Those extra microphones do boost the price up a bit. The JBL 780NC headphones cost $250, while the JBL 680NC headphones cost $160. Both are available for purchase right now, with shipments going out by March 15.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/audio/headphones/jbls-two-new-live-headphones-offer-80-hours-of-battery-each-120044416.html?src=rss
As an online publisher, a great deal of our traffic comes from your Google searches. But in recent years, Google’s search result pages have become more competitive – and crowded – places. This is due largely to an increase in shopping results, sponsored results and, most recently, AI Overviews.
This means our reviews, advice, news coverage and features can be buried among paid-for links, e-commerce sites and synthesised information that no human has written.
We’re not alone in worrying about the impact of AI results on our website traffic – and what that means for the future of journalism (gulp) – but, ultimately, that’s something for us to grapple with.
What it means for you is that our independent testing – which no brand ever pays for – can be harder to see, as can the kind of in-depth cycling tech coverage you can expect from us at races such as the Tour de France.
The good news is Google seems to be aware that people want a way to cut through the noise. It recently made it easier to control what you see in your search results via its new Preferred Sources feature.
What is Google Preferred Sources?
Google Preferred Sources is a new feature that enables you to choose which sites appear in your search results.
When you search for a topic, Google shows a Top Stories carousel near the top of the page. Preferred Sources puts you in control of which publishers appear there, so the sites you trust show up more often.
And you can add BikeRadar to that list.
How to add us to your Preferred Sources on Google
The quickest way to add BikeRadar to your Preferred Sources is to follow this link.
Or you can do it through a search:
Search for any topic on Google and find the Top Stories carousel in the results
Tap the star icon next to the ‘Top stories’ label to open the Preferred Sources panel
Type ‘BikeRadar’ into the search box and tick the box next to our name
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Let me introduce you to your good friend, sweat. Ignore the gross feel and the potential for B.O. for the moment, and think about what it does for you: When your body gets too hot, threatening to raise your core temperature over what’s healthy, little glands in your skin squeeze drops of moisture onto its surface. As soon as a breeze hits those droplets, they evaporate, taking some of your body heat away with them.
This is true even during exercise. It’s not the exercise that makes you sweat; exercise just raises your body heat, and it’s the heat that makes you sweat. That’s why you sweat without exercising on a hot day, and why you can sometimes exercise without sweating in a cold environment. In other words, sweat means a lot less than you might think. Sweating doesn’t mean you’re getting a good workout, doesn’t mean you’re losing weight, and it doesn’t tell you much about your fitness level. Let me explain.
You can get a great workout even if you don’t sweat very much
At the same ambient temperature, a harder workout might result in more body heat, so we’ve built up an association between sweating and working hard. It’s deceptive, though.
If you go for an hour-long run in the heat, you’ll sweat buckets. Run an hour on a treadmill at room temperature, and you may not sweat quite as much, but you’ll still be dripping. Go and run an hour in the winter, though, and you’ll barely be damp. That’s because your body doesn’t have to worry about cooling itself down.
Besides the ambient temperature, there’s another factor here: Not all workouts raise your body temperature equally. A heavy strength training workout, with plenty of rest time, may not raise your body temperature enough to make you sweat very much. That doesn’t make it a less-intense workout than, say, an easy jog. So don’t read too much into the amount you sweat.
Why do some people sweat more than others?
One of the biggest differences between people who sweat a lot and those who sweat less is body size. And by “size” I literally mean that—it doesn’t matter whether you’re fat, muscular, tall, or some combination thereof. The more of you there is, the harder your skin has to work to cool you down, and thus the more you sweat.
And then there’s the relationship between surface area and volume. The more skin you have relative to your body size, the more efficiently sweat can cool you. That means smaller people, including children, have a higher surface-area-to-volume ratio, so they can cool down with less sweat. If you lose a substantial amount of weight, you may end up sweating (slightly) less for these reasons. You have less body mass, and your surface-to-volume ratio improves a bit.
On the flip side, the fitter you are, the more you might sweat, as research suggests runners’ bodies turn on the sweat glands sooner than sedentary people, and that they sweat more during the same workout. So sweating more doesn’t mean you’re out of shape; it can mean you’re actually fitter and better adapted to the heat than people who sweat less.
Finally, if you feel like you’re the biggest sweater in your friend group, look at whether you’re actually doing appropriate comparisons. If you’re dripping when you run in the noonday sun and you see your friend post a selfie from the air-conditioned gym, you shouldn’t expect the two of you to sweat the same amount.
What’s the connection between sweat and weight loss?
Sweating a lot during a workout does not mean you’re losing fat, so let’s bust that myth right there. Sweating a lot can make you lose water weight, though, which is only temporary.
Our bodies contain a certain amount of water in our blood and in the various cells and compartments we’re made of. We can lose a little bit of it, become slightly dehydrated, and barely notice. Or we can drink a ton of water and become very hydrated, and have to pee a lot to get back to a normal level. In extreme cases, we can get so dehydrated it threatens our health, but that’s rare with normal activities.
When you sweat, and that sweat evaporates or gets rubbed off (you mop your brow with a towel, let’s say), that’s water leaving your body. You can actually weigh yourself before and after a workout and notice a change in weight if you sweat enough. Every pound of weight you lose is two cups (16 ounces) of water that has left your body. So technically you “lost weight,” but it wasn’t fat. You’re just due to drink two cups of water, and then you’ll be hydrated and happy again.
I recently took on the project of building out Zwift Insider’s route info data by adding lap leaderboard segments to our route pages. This meant doing a fair amount of legwork to learn which laps in Zwift award leader jerseys, and which routes include those laps.
In the end, after publishing a page listing all of Zwift’s lap segments and linking all the lap segments to routes that contained them, I was left a bit surprised by how few Zwift routes encompass full lap segments.
This is particularly true in Watopia, which has no less than 8 lap leaderboards: the Hilly, Volcano, Jarvis, and Jungle laps, in both directions. It seemed only right to create a route that hit all of these laps, allowing a strong rider (in theory at least) to top all 8 lap leaderboards in one ride. Now that would be impressive!
In the end, I actually created two routes. The first, “Lap It Up”, just covers the laps close to downtown Watopia: Hilly, Volcano, and Jarvis. Then I created an extended afterparty version, titled “Lap It Up + Jungle Afterparty”, which takes you out to the Jungle for forward/reverse laps.
Both routes are described below. Enjoy!
About Rebel Routes
“Rebel Routes” are Zwift rides not available on Zwift’s routes list, thus requiring manual navigation.
The reward for your rebel ride? Exploring a new route, knowing you’ve gone where few Zwifters have gone before. And a Strava segment rank in the tens or hundreds instead of the thousands! Rebel Routes are also included as a separate category on our Veloviewer Route Hunter leaderboard.
Route Description
Our basic ride plan is to hit the reverse versions of the three lap segments close to Watopia proper, then hit their forward versions, then head to the Jungle for an afterparty to do a forward and reverse lap.
A complete turn-by-turn tour of this route would be too much, so I’ll summarize it instead.
You can set yourself up easily by selecting the Figure 8 Reverse route. This puts you at the route’s start point, riding through the downtown Watopia lap arch, heading toward The Esses.
Note: you may feel like you’re doing lots of laps of the Volcano and Jarvis today, because the lap start line locations mean you have to ride a partial lap to get to the start of the full lap. You will also end up riding a partial lap after your lap is complete!
An orange jersey, in the Volcano!
After your Volcano lap, you’ll head to Jarvis for a clockwise lap, which is officially the “reverse” direction for Jarvis. Finish that full lap (which requires riding two laps of the loop), then we head to the Volcano as a way to “turn around” so we can hit Jarvis in the other direction.
Jarvis lap arch, forward direction
Now it’s time for our forward laps! Jarvis first, replicating “The Classic” (again, two laps), then to the Volcano for a clockwise “Volcano Circuit” lap (which requires 2.5 laps of the Volcano). Then we head to downtown for our last lap in Watopia proper: the classic Hilly Route lap, the very first route Watopia ever had!
Once you finish the Hilly Route at the downtown Watopia lap arch, you’ve completed the Lap It Up Rebel Route. But we also have an “afterparty” version which takes you out to the Jungle, to complete a lap in both directions, so you’ve done laps of all the lap segments in Watopia. Are you up for it?
If so, head out on Ocean Boulevard and up to the Jungle, finishing a full Jungle Circuit lap in the forward (CCW) direction first, before taking the Mayan Bridge cutoff to change direction and do a final full Jungle Circuit Reverse lap in the clockwise direction. The Lap It Up + Jungle Afterparty route ends at the Jungle Circuit arch once you’ve finished that full reverse lap!
Showing off the “Horse Blanket” Jungle lap leader’s jersey
Turn By Turn Directions
Begin by choosing the Figure 8 Reverse route, which starts you in downtown Watopia, heading in the right direction for at least the first several turns.
Straight (Left) to Sprint
Straight (Left) to 360 Bridge
Straight (Left) to 360 Bridge
Straight (Right) to Reverse KOM
Straight (Right) to Reverse KOM
Straight (Right) to Downtown
Straight (Left) to Downtown
Right to Volcano Circuit
Right to Volcano Circuit CCW
Straight (Left) to Volcano Circuit CCW
Right to Volcano Circuit
Straight (Left) to Volcano Circuit
Left to Volcano Circuit CCW
Straight (Left) to Volcano Circuit CCW
Straight (Left) to Volcano Circuit CCW
Right to Volcano Circuit
Straight (Left) to Volcano Circuit
Left to Volcano Circuit CCW
Straight (Left) to Volcano Circuit CCW
Straight (Left) to Volcano Circuit CCW
Right to Volcano Circuit
Right to Jarvis Island
Left to Jarvis Island Clockwise
Straight (Right) to Jarvis Island
Left to Volcano Circuit
Left to Volcano KOM
Left to Volcano Circuit
Straight (Right) to Volcano
Straight (Right) to Volcano
Right to Volcano Circuit
Left to Jarvis Island
Right to Jarvis Island Counter
Straight (Left) to Jarvis Island
Right to Volcano Circuit
Left to Volcano KOM
Left to Volcano Circuit
Straight (Right) to Volcano
Straight (Right) to Volcano
Right to Volcano Circuit
Straight (Right) to Volcano KOM
Left to Volcano Circuit
Straight (Right) to Volcano
Straight (Right) to Volcano
Right to Volcano Circuit
Straight (Right) to Volcano KOM
Left to Volcano Circuit
Straight (Right) to Volcano
Left to Downtown
Left to Downtown
Straight (Right) to KOM
Straight (Left) to KOM
Straight (Left) to Bridge
Straight (Left) to Islands
Straight (Right) to Italian Villas
Right to Sprint
Straight (Left) to Sprint
Right to Downtown End of “Lap It Up” Route
Left to Ocean Blvd
Straight (Right) to Ocean Blvd
Straight (Right) to Italian Villas
Left to Jungle/Epic KOM
Right to Jungle/Alpe
Right to Jungle/Alpe
Straight (Right) to Mayan Loop
Straight (Left) to Jungle Loop
Straight (Left) to Mayan Loop
Straight (Right) to Mayan Loop
Straight (Left) to Jungle Loop
Straight (Right) to Mayan Loop
Straight (Left) to Jungle Loop
Straight (Left) to Mayan Loop
Left to Mayan Bridge
Right to Mayan Loop Reverse
Straight (Right) to Reverse Jungle
Straight (Left) to Mayan Loop Reverse
Straight (Right) to Mayan Loop Reverse
Straight (Right) to Jungle Loop
Straight (Left) to Mayan Loop Reverse
Straight (Right) to Reverse Jungle
Straight (Left) to Mayan Loop Reverse
Straight (Right) to Mayan Loop Reverse End of “Lap It Up + Jungle Afterparty” Route
Uber has teamed up with UK self-driving car startup Wayve and Nissan to launch a pilot program for a robotaxi service in Tokyo in late 2026. The program will use Nissan Leaf EVs powered by Wayve’s AI Driver automated vehicle technology, which will then be connected to Uber’s platform. Trained drivers will be behind the wheel at first, as the deployed vehicles gather real-world data to be able to navigate Tokyo’s driving conditions and complex streets that are also a lot narrower than the roads in the US.
Another company backed by Uber, Nuro, will also test its vehicles on Tokyo’s challenging streets soon. Nuro has been trialing its self-driving tech in the US for years now and plans to launch a robotaxi service, as well. They’re not the first companies to take on Tokyo streets, however: Waymo deployed its Jaguar I-PACE autonomous vehicles in the metropolis last year to collect data on its roads and the driving patterns of locals.
The pilot program in Tokyo is just part of Wayve’s and Uber’s plan to roll out a robotaxi service in more than 10 cities around the world. In the future, the companies are planning to offer self-driving vehicles as an option in the city through a licensed taxi partner in Japan.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/transportation/uber-is-piloting-a-robotaxi-service-in-tokyo-112133871.html?src=rss
I grew up in a Star Trek household, not a Star Wars one. More to the point, I wasn’t even allowed to watch Star Wars when I was a kid, so I didn’t see the original trilogy until I was nearly an adult—about 17 years old, as I recall.
For my then-fundamentalist Christian family, the so-called “Eastern mysticism” of Star Wars was a bridge too far, something that could apparently corrupt my impressionable young Evangelical mind irreversibly. Star Trek was OK, though, because my parents didn’t feel it condoned witchcraft, or what have you, and they liked the original series from when they were younger.
Because of all that, my first true immersion in the Star Wars universe wasn’t the movies. It was the video games, and one in particular—Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, which you can nab on GOG.
Regardless of your interest in motorsport, you’ve almost certainly heard of the Monaco Grand Prix, Daytona 500, and Indianapolis 500. These iconic races are easy to spectate, with grandstands lining the course and a camera or two at every turn. Video feeds from the race can be transmitted live thanks to the infrastructure of the populated areas surrounding the tracks.
But what if your course is 100 miles (161 km) from nowhere? It’s 1,000 miles (1,610 km) long, and the only way to access it is on bumpy, dirty access roads that require four-wheel drive and plenty of clearance. If you want to watch the whole race with your own eyes, you’ll need to hire a helicopter. And broadcasting it live on TV? Good luck.
All that is changing with the advent of StarStream, a video and content streaming service that can be used with Starlink, the low-Earth-orbit satellite Internet system that has changed the way off-road race teams communicate. But George Hammel, a former motocross and UTV racer, saw even more potential: a way to bring fans into the cockpit, live.
Swiss Side says the new version of its Gravon Carbon 500 is its most aerodynamic gravel wheelset to date. New hubs and spokes lead to a reduced system weight of 1,620g and the new wheels are cheaper, too.
Jean-Paul Ballard, Swiss Side founder and CEO states: “The goal with the new Gravon Carbon 500 was clear: deliver measurable performance improvements, reduce the weight, and make it more fun to ride.”
The new Gravon Carbon 500 wheelset has a 50mm-deep carbon rim with a 36.5mm external/24mm internal width hooked tubeless rim, designed to support wider gravel tyres.
The 24mm internal-width rim is aero optimised for 40mm to 45mm tyres.
The cycling aerodynamics specialist claims aero efficiency comparable to aero road wheels with the strength and compliance needed for gravel riding, as well as crosswind stability and the agility to tackle technical terrain.
While the rim is compatible with gravel bike tyre widths from 35mm to 65mm, for the best aero performance Swiss Side recommends 40mm tyres for racing and 45mm for all-round, all-conditions riding.
The DT Swiss 350 hub is laced with straight-pull DT Swiss Aerolite spokes.
The rim is laced to DT Swiss 350 Spline hubs with a 10-degree engagement angle using 24 DT Swiss Aerolite and Aero Comp straight-pull spokes, a switch from the J-bend spokes used in the version 1 Gravon wheels. The wheels are available with a Shimano HG11, Shimano Micro Spline or SRAM XDR freehub.
Swiss Side claims a weight of 1,620g per wheelset (760g front, 860g rear), which represents a 126g weight saving over its previous-generation Gravon wheels.
The new Gravon Carbon 500 wheelset is sold with rim tape pre-installed, and with tubeless valves and valve extenders. It is priced at £1,105 / $1,620 / €1,439 via retailers, although you can buy it from Swiss Side’s site for £884 / $1,295 / €1,199.
Swiss Side has also recently launched a new road wheelset, its first with carbon spokes, the Hadron3 Ultimate 380. Designed for pro use in climbing stages and with DT Swiss 180 hubs, the wheelset weighs a claimed 1,213g and is priced at £2,357 / $3,465 / €3,199 or direct from Swiss Side at £1,885 / $2,765 / €2,559.
A Pew Research Center survey found that only 53% of U.S. adults went to a movie theater in the past year, while 7% said they’ve never seen a movie in a theater at all. “The findings reflected a domestic box office still fighting to regain its footing since the COVID-19 pandemic, when ticket sales collapsed 81% in 2020 due to theater closures,” reports Variety. From the report: In 2025, moviegoers in the U.S. and Canada bought 769.2 million tickets, less than half of the all-time peak of roughly 1.6 billion tickets sold in 2002, according to data from Nash Information Services. However, an August 2025 study field by NRG/National Research Group showed that 77% of Americans ages 12-74 went to see at least one movie in a theater in the previous 12 months.
Box office revenue peaked at an inflation-adjusted $16.4 billion in 2002, and annual ticket revenue held relatively steady through the 2000s and 2010s before falling to under $3 billion in 2020 when theaters closed for months. Last year, U.S. theaters sold just over $9 billion worth of tickets, per media analytics firm Comscore. The number represents a recovery, but nowhere near a full one, as ticket sales have been lagging around 20% below pre-pandemic levels.
Texas Instruments has introduced two new microcontroller families aimed at bringing artificial intelligence processing to low-power embedded systems. The MSPM0G5187 and AM13Ex devices integrate TI’s TinyEngine NPU, a hardware accelerator designed to improve the efficiency of neural network inference on microcontrollers. The MSPM0G5187 is based on an Arm Cortex-M0+ CPU running up to 80 MHz […]
Richard Hughes of Red Hat just announced the release of Fwupd 2.1.1 as the newest feature update to this solution for deploying system firmware updates and other device/peripheral firmware updates under Linux. Paired with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS), Fwupd has made firmware updating a breeze on Linux for an increasing number of devices…
Think of Bodhi Linux 7.0 as a digital walk for peace: a lightweight Moksha desktop, a small install footprint, and just enough polish to keep your aging hardware serene.
Google knows asking agents to navigate GUIs designed for humans is ridiculous. Microsoft might notOpinion The command line interface is making a comeback because graphical user interfaces are a poor fit for autonomous agents, which could spell trouble for a lot of software – and software makers.…
US self-driving startup Nuro, which is backed by the likes of NVIDIA, Toyota and Uber, has started testing its autonomous vehicles on Tokyo’s challenging streets, Bloomberg reported. The company, which plans to launch a robotaxi service with Uber and Lucid in San Francisco this year, will be testing a “handful” of vehicles in the city. Human safety drivers will be at the wheel, as is required by Japanese law.
Tokyo presents a challenge for autonomous vehicles, given its narrow, crowded streets and left side of the road driving. “Testing the capability of the autonomy system in such an interesting market with some international complexity really is a good pressure test of what the system is capable of,” said CEO Andrew Chapin. The company’s ultimate goal is to achieve Level 4 autonomy, which allows full self-driving under limited conditions.
Waymo is the other major robotaxi operator testing vehicles in Tokyo in collaboration with Japanese taxi operators Nihon Kotsu and the country’s leading taxi app, Go. It has been operating in the nation since April 2025 in collaboration with Toyota.
Nuro has yet to announce which operators or vehicle manufacturers it will be partnering with, but Chapin said it may not limit itself to autonomous rides. “A universal autonomy platform that can be extended to a lot of different applications and form factors is a bit different than the approach Waymo is taking,” he told Bloomberg. The company previously teamed with 7-Eleven on autonomous deliveries in Mountain View, California.
Uber plans to have up to 100,000 autonomous vehicles including 20,000 robotaxis powered by Lucid and Nuro, with a rollout starting in 2027. It introduced its new vehicle design recently at CES 2026. Uber is also collaborating with Nissan and Wayve with the aim to introduce pilot cars in Tokyo by late 2026.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/transportation/nvidia–and-uber-backed-nuro-is-testing-autonomous-vehicles-in-tokyo-081200366.html?src=rss
