The race to put fully autonomous vehicles on American streets just moved a step closer to reality. Nuro, the self-driving technology company backed by Uber, NVIDIA, and Toyota, has received an updated permit from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to test its driverless Lucid Gravity robotaxis on public roads — without a human safety ...

Vladimir Putin stood before reporters on Saturday with the kind of measured confidence that has defined his public persona for more than two decades. The occasion was Victory Day — Russia’s most solemn annual commemoration — but the words that drew the most attention had nothing to do with World War II. The Russian president ...

For generations, the question has lingered in the background of American public life — are we alone? On Friday, the Pentagon took what it described as a historic step toward transparency, releasing a first batch of declassified files related to unidentified anomalous phenomena, the government’s preferred term for what most people still call UFOs. The ...