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SUMMER READY

Strawberr y shortcake ice lollies The sun's comingout MAKES 8 1 carton of Walkers Highlander Shortbread 240ml (8½fl oz) milk 200g (7oz) strawberry purée 100g (3½oz) sugar ½ tsp vanilla extract 4-5 strawberries, puréed 1 Add the milk and sugar to a medium-sized saucepan and cook over a medium heat, stirring regularly until the sugar is dissolved. Set aside to cool. 2 Add the strawberry purée to a medium sized saucepan over a medium heat and cook until reduced by half, to about 1 cup. The mixture may come to a light boil, but you don’t really want it to start boiling a lot. Remove the strawberry mixture from the heat and add three-quarters of a cup of the milk mixture and stir to combine. Add the vanilla extract to…

SUMMER READY

5 WAYS TO PROTECT YOUR EYES

THROW SOME SHADE: “The sun can damage your lens and retina, just like it can damage your skin,” explains the American Academy of Ophthalmology. To protect your peepers outdoors, wear a wide-brimmed hat and sunglasses. Look for a pair that block out 99 to 100 percent of both UVA and UVB radiation. GIVE IT A REST: According to the NIH’s National Eye Institute, “If you spend a lot of time at the computer or focusing on any one thing, you sometimes forget to blink and your eyes can get fatigued. Try the 20-20-20 rule: Every 20 minutes, look away about 20 feet in front of you for 20 seconds.” EAT RIGHT: It’s no old wives’ tale. “Carrots, which contain vitamin A, are indeed good for the eyes,” explain the folks at Harvard…

5 WAYS TO PROTECT YOUR EYES

Power struggle

THIS YEAR’S energy shock is the most serious since the Middle Eastern oil crises of 1973 and 1979. Like those calamities, it promises to inflict short-term pain and in the longer term to transform the energy industry. The pain is all but guaranteed: owing to high fuel and power prices, most countries are facing soggy growth, inflation, squeezed living standards and a savage political backlash. But the long-run consequences are far from preordained. If governments respond ineptly, they could trigger a relapse towards fossil fuels that makes it even harder to stabilise the climate. Instead they must follow a perilous path that combines security of energy supply with climate security. In Europe what was long imagined as a nightmare of freezing midwinter nights has instead erupted as a midsummer fever dream.…

Power struggle
BOG WILD

BOG WILD

AT THE SOUTHERN TIP of South America, between the Strait of Magellan to the north and west and Beagle Channel to the south, the Tierra del Fuego archipelago may hold one of the keys to global carbon sequestration: nearly pristine peatlands. And while rising temperatures and human interventions threaten these boggy climatechange buffers, it is still possible to preserve their wilderness and their ecological performance. Approximately one-third of the total area of the archipelago is taken up by the southernmost province of Argentina, where the city of Ushuaia, sometimes referred to as the “End of the World,” is located. What may be the true end of the world, however, is even more remote than this city, at the easternmost tip of land in the archipelago: Península Mitre. Here, the South Atlantic…

WRITE FOR THE GALAXY

WRITE FOR THE GALAXY

Twilight Imperium is 25 years old this year. The first edition of the game landed in 1997 with the iconic ‘wonky cat-lion-man’ on the cover, and subsequent editions make improvements on the game itself (and the lion-man, who becomes less wonky, and wiser looking) to the point where Twilight Imperium Fourth Edition happily sits at number six in the Board Game Geek top 100. Famous for its lengthy play times, faction powers, and full on space 4X experience. The word is, if you want to get exploring, expanding, exploiting and exterminating this is the real deal (if you can get everyone to commit for a whole day). How then, could we possibly see this turned into a quite accessible roll and write game? Surely it can’t all fit on one…

UPS TESTS TINY BATTERY-POWERED CYCLES IN CONGESTED CITIES

UPS TESTS TINY BATTERY-POWERED CYCLES IN CONGESTED CITIES

The sleek four-wheeled carts look familiar enough, but not even UPS knows precisely how to describe what could be the delivery giant’s latest way to get packages to your door. UPS unveiled a battery-powered, four-wheeled cycle to more efficiently haul cargo in some of the world’s most congested streets and to reduce its carbon footprint. The company is trying to reach carbon neutrality by 2050. The slimmed-down vehicles don the company’s gold-colored logo and accompanying stripe on a dark brown background. But the “eQuad” — as the company calls it — garnered amusement from passersby. Ian Lagowitz had never seen one and walked over to give it a look. “It’s funny looking,” he said, “but it’s probably good for the city, right?” Mohammad Islam called the vehicle “cool stuff,” and wished the program well. “Big…

BABY THIS IS Rock‘n’Roll

Of all the things I’ve done in my career, getting my first rock’n’roll group together was right up there amongst the most difficult. Even without a full-time band behind me, I was still performing my spots at the Red Lion pub in Brentford, and on Sunday lunchtimes playing at The Adam & Eve in Hayes, Middlesex. Most of the Fuller’s chain of pubs in the late 60s were only interested in putting on country and western bands – they were very popular back then – and I caught a number of them, too, but never performed with any of them. Some of my friends were into both country and rock’n’roll and eventually I was introduced to piano player Trevor Hawkins, who excelled at R&B and rock’n’roll. He was interested in putting a…

BABY THIS IS Rock‘n’Roll
LANDS OF PLENTY

LANDS OF PLENTY

IN THE SOUTHEASTERN corner of Georgia lies the Okefenokee Swamp, a 438,000-acre wetland. The cypress-filled wilderness—with its labyrinth of black canals inhabited by some 12,000 gators—is a long drive from anywhere. Visitors have three main entry points to choose from, each about two hours from the next. The section I knew the least about before my visit this spring was Stephen C. Foster State Park. It’s nestled within the much larger Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, but it offers much that the bigger reserve does not, including campsites with electrical hookups, running water, and access until 10 p.m.—a plus for the stargazers attracted by its International Dark Sky designation. These days, the Okefenokee’s 120 acres of state park have more fans than ever. “Since the pandemic started, we’ve seen an uptick in visitation,…

“I dropped from a size 24 to a 10!”

Even in the dark theater, Pam Hambach felt the eyes of everyone in attendance as she shifted back and forth, trying to shoehorn her body into the too-tight seat. As the tension built, she wondered, How did I let myself get to this point? “Diets did not work for me,” reveals Pam, thinking of the list that rolled as long as movie credits. Each fad left her starving and reaching for salty snacks. She shares, “The more I deprived myself, the more cravings I had.” But everything changed when Pam started eating protein-rich breakfasts. “I was never hungry. I just never had an issue with feeling starved.” Pam lost 13 pounds the first month, thanks to those fruit smoothies with 33 grams of protein, made with either pea protein or whey protein…

“I dropped from a size 24 to a 10!”

The world this week

Politics Battling the fallout from parties held at Downing Street during covid-19 lockdowns, Boris Johnson, Britain’s prime minister, won a snap no-confidence vote among Conservative MPs. But more than 40% of his own MPs voted against him, severely denting his authority. The party’s rules prevent another formal challenge to Mr Johnson’s leadership for a year. But Mr Johnson’s opponents note that his support was weaker than that accorded Theresa May in a similar vote in 2018, as her premiership floundered. Six months later, she quit. Sweden’s governing Social Democrats won what was in effect a no-confidence vote, but only by securing the co-operation of an independent MP of Kurdish descent by reaffirming their support for a Kurdish group in Syria. That further complicates relations with Turkey, which has said it will block…

The world this week

Stop the shame game

When Jennifer Pastiloff was eight years old, she got into an argument with her dad over smoking. He’d promised to quit his four-packs-a-day habit but wasn’t following through. She flushed a load of his menthol cigarettes down the toilet. ‘I told him he always broke promises, and I said, “I hate you!” the way young kids do in those situations,’ says Jennifer. ‘It wouldn’t have been that big a deal, but it ended up being the last thing I said to him.’ He died from a widow-maker heart attack shortly after, aged just 38. ‘I thought I had caused the stress that killed him,’ she says. ‘I was so ashamed that I wouldn’t allow myself to grieve; I thought I didn’t deserve to be a person. I developed anorexia as I…

Stop the shame game
Drag Race’s Origin Story

Drag Race’s Origin Story

I MET RANDY BARBATO AND FENTON Bailey in 1992 or 1993 when I was an executive at MTV. They came in to pitch, and I fell in love with them immediately, and we became friends. I remember thinking at the time that these guys were so far left of center that I could actually be friends with them, but I didn’t know if I could ever buy a show from them to put on the air even though I was at MTV. It was the mid-’90s. At the time, they were managing RuPaul, who I already loved. The first time I saw RuPaul, I was on the couch with my mother in New Hampshire, and we were watching the music video for “Supermodel,” which was just mesmerizing. And my mother said,…

Microsoft Decides Windows 11 Is Ready for Everyone to Use

Microsoft Decides Windows 11 Is Ready for Everyone to Use

About a year after its release, Microsoft has decided Windows 11 is in a good enough state for everyone to install and use. That is, assuming your PC meets the requirements for running the OS. As Neowin reports, the Windows Health Dashboard changed the status of Windows 11 in May to be “designated for broad deployment.” This basically means that Microsoft believes the operating system is now robust enough that all new PCs should be shipping with it, and anyone holding off on upgrading from Windows 10 should pull the trigger. Whether your PC is capable of running Windows 11 can be determined by using Microsoft’s PC Health Check app (https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/windows-11?r=1#pchealthcheck). Even some Microsoft employees can’t upgrade to Windows 11, so it’s definitely worth checking before you attempt the upgrade. If you can,…

CHOOSE THE BEST GRAVEL ADVENTURE FOR YOU

Gravel grinders are popping up faster than many cyclists can keep track of. With so many options out there, how do you choose the right one for you? Before signing up, here are a few things to keep in mind. LOCATION // Choosing an event closer to home is a great way to start, as you may be able to preride the course if it’s open to the public. Preriding can help you determine what type of gear will be best for the terrain, how much fuel and hydration you may need, and how to navigate tricky sections. “The day of the event can be overwhelming, but you’ll find a little peace knowing what the start and finish are like,” says Cynthia Frazier, race promoter for Gravista in Buena Vista, Virginia. SEASON…

CHOOSE THE BEST GRAVEL ADVENTURE FOR YOU

One Way to Encourage Consumers to Upgrade

Under a popular marketing strategy, managers use prices just below a round number—like $9.99, $79.95, and $399,990—because consumers tend to perceive items to be less expensive than if they were a few cents or dollars higher. New research finds an important exception: If you’re seeking to upsell customers, setting the price of the basic option at or just above a round number gets better results. The researchers set up a coffee stand on a college campus and varied the prices of a small and a large coffee over the course of two days. Some passersby saw a base price of $.95 and $1.20 for the upgrade, while others saw prices of $1.00 and $1.25. Just 29% of purchasers who saw the first set of prices bought the large coffee, versus 56%…

One Way to Encourage Consumers to Upgrade

Telehealth - Healthcare meets technology

Indeed, everything has changed over the decades. From how we stay in touch with family and friends, purchasing patterns of goods and services, to information search on health problems. As the world moves ahead with advanced technology, we are experiencing various challenges health-wise. One must be glad to know that modern life challenges are compromised with innovative solutions that are available in every possible way. When the outbreak of the SARS-Cov-2 Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) struck, public health became a high level international concern. In the midst of a global pandemic, technological advances provided new options such as telehealth. There are a variety of telehealth tools available to help us manage our health and receive the services we need. The question here is, do we know enough about telehealth and are…

Telehealth - Healthcare meets technology

How democracies decay

WHEN THEY vote in a presidential run-off election this weekend Colombians face a grim choice between two illqualified populists. On the left, Gustavo Petro has still not wholly shaken off his long-standing sympathy for Hugo Chávez, the caudillo who destroyed Venezuela’s economy and its democracy. On the right, Rodolfo Hernández is a bullying former mayor with no team and not much of a programme beyond expelling “the thieves”, as he calls the political class. This line-up reflects voters’ deep scorn for Colombia’s mainstream politicians, even though the country has done relatively well over the past 20 years. It is the kind of polarised choice that has become worryingly familiar in Latin American elections. In a region that was discontented even before the pandemic, there no longer seem to be many…

How democracies decay

Miami Vice, Hold the Ice

I VIVIDLY REMEMBER my first Miami Vice. The time was high summer, the place was Martell’s Tiki Bar, on the boardwalk in Point Pleasant, New Jersey. I had recently turned 21 and was just starting to explore the world of cocktails. The setting called for a frozen drink, but I couldn’t decide between the piña colada and the strawberry daiquiri. Seeing me stuck at a crossroads, the waiter recommended, “Why not have both?” Puzzled, I told him I didn’t want to order two drinks. He pointed me to the Miami Vice, a drink combining the piña colada and the strawberry daiquiri and topped with dark rum. I gave it a try. Bands of white and red swirled around each other in the icy cup, making the palms of my hands…

Miami Vice, Hold the Ice

DAVID BOWIE: ALL THE SONGS – THE STORY BEHIND EVERY TRACK

BLACK DOG & LEVENTHAL PUBLISHERS ★★★★★ In the six years since David Bowie’s death, there’s been no shortage of material celebrating his life, career and legacy. While most of the titles have tended to fall into one of two camps – the exhaustive biographies or the glossy, oversize photobooks, David Bowie: All The Songs shifts the focus solely onto the music, presenting itself as a meticulously researched encyclopedia of all of David Jones’ recorded output from his pre-Bowie recordings of the 60s to his death and beyond. All The Songs: The Story Behind Every Track fulfils the title’s promise – and then some. Every song – via singles, albums, soundtracks, collaborations – is included, with each entry including the date and location of recording, the musicians used, the producer and…

DAVID BOWIE: ALL THE SONGS – THE STORY BEHIND EVERY TRACK

Q: CAN TRAVEL MAKE YOU A BETTER LEADER?

‘I think curiosity and stubbornness are what drive me,’ says Melanie Smith, the CEO of Ocado Retail and one of an elite group of women who have visited every country in the world. ‘I must have been about 30 when I came up with the idea, and I remember my boyfriend at the time saying, “You’re never going to be able to do that.” So I thought to myself, well, there’s a nice challenge!’ Fifteen years and 197 countries later, in 2019, Smith celebrated the completion of a journey of discovery that has left her with not only numerous stamps in her passport, but also a clearer sense of perspective, an open mind and a willingness to take chances. ‘I always return from a trip happy, with lots of energy,’ she…

Q: CAN TRAVEL MAKE YOU A BETTER LEADER?
McLaren is latest supercar maker to succumb to SUVs

McLaren is latest supercar maker to succumb to SUVs

“McLaren’s determined to stay true to its traditions of compactness, light weight and sophisticated aero” McLaren is working on a brand-new high-performance crossover – a project that directly contradicts its previously declared intention of only ever building supercars and hypercars. The new crossover, on course to hit the market in the second half of this decade, will be a fully battery-electric proposition, not a hybrid, and will never be available with a combustion engine. McLaren is understood to be eyeing a single model to begin with, but past practice suggests different specifications and power levels will be offered in time, similar to Aston Martin with the DBX. The new McLarens are believed to be relatively low, compact, dual-or tri-motor, four-wheel-drive designs offering exalted performance levels likely to match Aston Martin’s recently launched V8 DBX…

Naia Resort and Spa & The Rainforest Lodge at Sleeping Giant

Naia Resort and Spa & The Rainforest Lodge at Sleeping Giant

DESTINATION Located just south of Mexico, Belize is home to the first civilization, the Maya. Visitors can learn about the Indigenous culture by visiting archaeological sites but also experience it firsthand—approximately 11% of Belize’s population is Maya. The wildlife is diverse and maybe a little nerve-wracking: You can swim with sharks and you just might see a jaguar or two. ACCOMMODATION There are plenty of places to stay in Belize that allow you to commune with nature while exploring the country’s varied topography. Naia Resort and Spa, nestled in a 200-acre reserve on the Placencia Peninsula, offers beachfront tranquility. If you travel inland to the foothills of the Maya Mountains, you’ll find The Rainforest Lodge at Sleeping Giant, which is surrounded by the 10,000-acre Sibun Nature Reserve. The heart of the lodge is the…

COLOR SPLASH

COLOR SPLASH • KITCHEN ENVY • FOOD Rx • ALLSTAR TIPS & TOOLS 1. Go Green TANGY CUCUMBER AND AVOCADO CROSTINI Avocado, cucumber, and green onion mingle with fresh lime juice in this bright, cilantro-spiked starter. Serve on toasts or as a salad. 2. Mellow Yellow SUMMERTIME CRISP CORN SALAD This so-simple side bursts with quintessential summer flavors: Stir together sweet corn, tomatoes, and bell peppers and toss in a vinegar-forward dressing. 3. RED HOT SWEET AND SPICY GRILLED SHRIMP SKEWERS Purchased chili-garlic sauce adds color and fiery spice to marinated, grilled shrimp. A hint of honey tames the heat. 4. Feelin’ Blue—or Purple! COLOR-CHANGING MARGARITA When tequila infused with dried butterfly pea flowers ($31 for a 100-gram bag at rishi-tea.com) hits the acidic lime juice in this margarita, the mixture turns from dark blue to violet—right before your eyes. SHOW YOUR TRUE…

COLOR SPLASH

HOLLYWOOD DADS

Day By Day His son, Matteo, will celebrate his second birthday on July 31, but Artem Chigvintsev isn’t worried about the dreaded “terrible twos.” “You know, I’ve heard so many different stories. Some people say [the] terrible threes are worse than the terrible twos,” says the Dancing With the Stars pro, 39. “Being a parent, I feel the best thing you can do is just take one day at a time and deal with [the rest] tomorrow.” Here, the dancer — who shares his little boy with fiancée Nikki Bella, 38 — tells Us more. Q: How are you and Nikki enjoying parenthood? We’re just loving every second. We can’t wait to wake up every morning to get him out of bed. It’s an incredible love that I hope every single person out…

HOLLYWOOD DADS
Facing up to climate reality

Facing up to climate reality

FOR almost a year, climate scientists have sounded one clear message. The world’s totemic goal of holding average global temperature rises to 1.5°C is still technically within our grasp, but will slip without a dramatic course correction by humanity. “Unless there are immediate, strong, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, limiting global warming to 1.5°C will be beyond reach,” said climate scientist Valérie Masson-Delmotte last August, launching the first of three landmark reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Yet, three months later at COP26 in Glasgow, UK, at the climax of a pivotal UN summit designed to alter the trajectory of our emissions, COP26 president Alok Sharma admitted that even with new commitments, 1.5°C was on “life support”. Fast forward to this April and Jim Skea at Imperial…

Collector's Display Tray

Back in the o-l-d days of publishing (our Editorial Content Chief had just started at WOOD® magazine, sweeping the shop), printers sorted lead blocks of lettering for printing presses in trays such as this one, earning the drawers the moniker “printer’s trays.” As technology made this storage obsolete, the compartmentalized trays became prized by collectors to display miniatures and other small items. Finding an authentic antique printer’s tray in good condition can be difficult and costly. Luckily, with a few evenings of work, you can create a new one. Start With a Super-simple Box 1 Cut the sides (A) and top and bottom (B) to size [Materials List, Exploded View]. Rabbet one edge of all pieces, then rabbet the ends of the sides. Finish-sand the inside faces. 2 Glue the top and bottom between…

Collector's Display Tray
The black hole photographer

The black hole photographer

A FEW weeks ago, we got our first look at a portrait of the mysterious behemoth at the centre of the Milky Way, the supermassive black hole known as Sagittarius A*. The image is an amazing feat of astronomical endeavour, made possible thanks to a planet-sized array of telescopes called the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). It was even harder to capture than the previous black hole picture taken by the EHT, which was the first ever. But it is also special because this black hole is at the heart of our home galaxy. Feryal Özel at the University of Arizona was one of the first people to come up with a way of photographing black holes and she is now a key member of the EHT collaboration. New Scientist caught up…

BMW M3 Touring unleashed with supercar performance

BMW M3 Touring unleashed with supercar performance

GOODWOOD FESTIVAL OF SPEED The first-ever BMW M3 Touring is making its long-awaited world debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this week, combining supercar levels of straight-line pace with the familiar comfort and utility of the 3 Series. Arriving as part of the ongoing celebrations for M division’s 50th anniversary, it is the latest addition to the M3/M4 family and follows hot on the heels of the strippedout, track-focused M4 CSL (see overleaf) revealed last month. This is the first time that BMW has applied the full-fat M treatment to the 3 Series estate in seven generations – although it did build a one-off Touring version of the E46-gen M3 in 2000 (but kept it under wraps until 2016). The new arrival will go on sale in September, ahead of production beginning in…

We’re Going Crazy in the Metaverse!

THE MOTIVATION to launch GQ’s first metaverse issue started back in December. I was in Miami, hosting a GQ party during Art Basel, and whether you were walking on the beach, browsing the fair, sitting in a meeting, or art-partying under the winter moon, all anybody seemed to be talking about was cryptocurrency, NFTs, and Web3. One afternoon at the fair, I overheard a gallerist implore friends who had stopped by her booth to ask her about anything on earth except goddamn NFTs. (She was selling paintings.) I sat in on a meeting where an executive at one of the big emergent metaverse platforms pitched his vision to a world-famous musician. Meanwhile, I ran into another guy who works in the music business – but was expanding. “Will,” he said, with…

We’re Going Crazy in the Metaverse!
You’re Mad, And It’s Not Just Inflation

You’re Mad, And It’s Not Just Inflation

In a 1997 paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research titled Why Do People Dislike Inflation?, Nobel laureate Robert Shiller and a team of graduate assistants interviewed hundreds of people in the US, Germany, and Brazil. While few of those ordinary Joes knew much about the economic term in question, they were all uniformly against it. Even when one researcher told a survey respondent that inflation might help raise his wages, he remained steadfastly opposed. “I suspect that an important difference between economists and laymen is that, to some extent, we speak different languages,” wrote Harvard’s N. Gregory Mankiw in his review of Shiller’s project. That’s the problem with inflation, which Shiller’s research found to be the most-used economic term in all published news stories in the Nexis database (even…

FINDING HAPPINESS THROUGH SELF LOVE

Jim Rhon famously said, “We become the average of the five people we spend the most time around.” When you think about those who surround you in your life, who comes to mind? You might think about relationships with partners, family, co-workers, neighbours or even the person who serves you coffee in the morning. However, do you include the most important relationship – the relationship you have with yourself? Ultimately, the dynamic within the relationship to ourselves heavily influences all of these other connections. It is, after all, the longest relationship we will have, yet for many of us, we find ourselves putting it at the bottom of our list of priorities. In marriage or civil partnerships, we make a legal promise to care for the other person in all eventualities,…

FINDING HAPPINESS THROUGH SELF LOVE

GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE

If a heart attack isn’t documented, did it really happen? For an artificial intelligence program, the answer may very well be “no.” Every year, an estimated 170,000 people in the United States experience asymptomatic — or “silent” — heart attacks. During these events, patients likely have no idea that a blockage is keeping blood from flowing or that vital tissue is dying. They won’t experience any chest pain, dizziness or trouble breathing. They don’t turn beet red or collapse. Instead, they may just feel a bit tired, or have no symptoms at all. While the patient might not realize what happened, the underlying damage can be severe and long-lasting: People who suffer silent heart attacks are at higher risk for coronary heart disease and stroke, and are more likely to…

GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE
LIFE ON THREE LEGS

LIFE ON THREE LEGS

“Most three-legged dogs end up missing a limb due to an accident or illness…” Recently, I travelled to Brighton to watch Jeff Wayne’s musical version of ‘War of the Worlds’ on stage. I’ve seen every tour since 2007, and I don’t mind ‘showing my geek’. I bring this up because the Martians get around in huge, three-legged fighting machines. The original album artwork brought these mighty metal warlords to life in a way that gave me nightmares for most of my childhood, but when it came to animating them, the designers had something of a challenge because there are no naturally three-legged animals to base the movement on, which brings me to this month’s topic… three-legged dogs. It is rare for a dog to be born with a limb deficiency,…

Time to Make Nice

Time to Make Nice

When campaigning for president, Joe Biden vowed to turn Saudi Arabia into a “pariah” over the brutal killing of a newspaper columnist. Once in the White House, he temporarily froze weapons sales to the kingdom over its war in Yemen. He also outlined a vision to make the US a renewable energy powerhouse, less reliant on an oil market where the Saudis hold so much sway. But with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine posing the biggest disruption to energy supplies in decades, the president is having to take a different tack, recalibrating an alliance that is increasingly critical to the global economy and that is at its most strained in years. With the oil market in turmoil, the world’s biggest exporter of crude once again has the leverage to make demands. It’s raking…

CALIFORNIA REGULATORS APPROVE STATE’S 1ST ROBOTIC TAXI FLEET

CALIFORNIA REGULATORS APPROVE STATE’S 1ST ROBOTIC TAXI FLEET

California regulators gave a robotic taxi service the green light to begin charging passengers for driverless rides in San Francisco, a first in a state where dozens of companies have been trying to train vehicles to steer themselves on increasingly congested roads. The California Public Utilities Commission unanimously granted Cruise, a company controlled by automaker General Motors, approval to launch its driverless ride-hailing service. The regulators issued the permit despite safety concerns arising from Cruise’s inability to pick up and drop off passengers at the curb in its autonomous taxis, requiring the vehicles to double park in traffic lanes. The ride-hailing service initially will consist of just 30 electric vehicles confined to transporting passengers in less congested parts of San Francisco from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Those restrictions are designed to…