Waymo Picks Toronto as Its Fourth Market Outside the United States
Waymo announced on October 16 that Canada will be its fourth overseas market, with Toronto as the first city. Within days the company will put manually driven vehicles on Toronto…
The Florida Retiree Fighting a Jeffrey Epstein Rumor
Peter Simel was driving a convertible down a Florida highway in March when a stranger’s camera made him famous for the wrong reason. The footage, posted online, looked enough like…
Indonesia Rejects Meta’s Teen-Account Fix, Demanding More
Meta rolled out its Teen Accounts in Indonesia as the answer to years of child-safety pressure. The feature makes accounts held by users under 18 private by default, blocks messages…
To Break a Short-Video Habit, a Neuroscientist Reaches for a Lockbox
The box sits on the desk, closed, and for the next few hours the phone is inside it. The person who put it there did not act on a whim;…
IBM Connects Its Digital-Asset Platform to Swift’s Blockchain Ledger
For most of its six decades, the message a bank sends through the Swift network has done one thing: instruct another bank to move money, with the actual movement of…
Kalshi Loses Again as Appeals Court Backs State Gambling Law
The ruling arrived in two parts, and Kalshi lost both of them. A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held on September 25 that the…
Boeing Salvages a 150-Jet Order From Turkish Airlines
For months, one of Boeing’s most important deals looked as if it might collapse. Turkish Airlines had threatened to walk away from an order for 150 of its 737 MAX…
Meta’s Apps Falter on the Night It Fights Britain’s Regulator
On the evening of September 20, Eastern time, two of the world’s most-used apps went dark across large parts of the United States. Facebook and Instagram suffered a widespread outage,…
Tata Trusts Declares Reappointment of Tata Sons Chairman Illegal
The largest shareholder of India’s biggest conglomerate has broken openly with the board it once spoke for. Tata Trusts, the charitable foundation that controls 66 percent of Tata Sons, said…
An Oxfordshire Village Votes to Secede From the United Kingdom
The wooden sign went up at the village entrance this week. It reads “Principality of Piddington,” and it is the product of a vote held on September 16, 2026, in…
