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By Nick Carey LONDON (Reuters) – Oxbotica and Alphabet Inc’s Google Cloud said on Tuesday they are partnering up to speed up the deployment of the British self-driving software startup’s autonomous software platform to customers around the world. Oxbotica will use Google Cloud infrastructure to create “scalable, safe, and reliable” autonomous driving solutions for its customers in last-mile logistics, agriculture, light industry, and public transport, the companies said.  The companies […]

By Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Gambling Commission has handed a 19.2 million pound ($23.7 million) fine to the William Hill betting group, the biggest penalty ever issued by the regulator, after it failed to protect consumers and stop money laundering. The regulator said the issues at the three companies in the William Hill group, itself owned by online gaming and betting operator 888, were so “widespread and alarming” […]

By Hyonhee Shin and Daewoung Kim SEOUL/BUSAN (Reuters) -North Korea unveiled new, smaller nuclear warheads and vowed to produce more weapons-grade nuclear material to expand the country’s arsenal, state media KCNA said on Tuesday, as a U.S. aircraft carrier arrived in South Korea for military drills. KCNA released photos of the warheads, dubbed Hwasan-31s, as leader Kim Jong Un visited the Nuclear Weapons Institute, where he inspected new tactical nuclear […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Lawyers for Sam Bankman-Fried said they reached an agreement with U.S. prosecutors on Monday on revised bail conditions, after a judge raised the prospect of sending the indicted FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder to jail pending trial. Under some of the proposed new conditions, Bankman-Fried would have a new phone with no internet capability and a basic laptop with limited functions, but be forbidden from using other […]

(Reuters) -Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc is planning to lower bonus pays for some employees, and assess staff performance more frequently, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing an internal memo. Employees of the social media giant, who get a rating of “met most expectations” in their 2023 year-end reviews, will receive a smaller percentage of bonus and restricted stock award due in March 2024, the WSJ report said. […]

(Reuters) -Ukrainian authorities said air defences shot down Russian drones near Kyiv on Monday and falling debris set a non-residential site ablaze, but no casualties were found. Serhiy Popko, head of the Kyiv city military administration, said Russia had launched 12 drones towards Kyiv but Ukraine’s air defence forces had identified and destroyed “all enemy targets” in the airspace around the capital. The General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said […]

(Reuters) -Russia’s navy fired supersonic anti-ship missiles at a mock target in the Sea of Japan, the Russian defence ministry said on Tuesday. “In the waters of the Sea of Japan, missile ships of the Pacific Fleet fired Moskit cruise missiles at a mock enemy sea target,” it said in a statement on its Telegram account. “The target, located at a distance of about 100 kilometres (62.14 miles), was successfully […]

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) – At least 10 people died after a fire at a migrant facility in Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez, near the U.S. border, two sources with the local government told Reuters. Volunteer rescue workers put the figure of deceased at 37, plus many more injured. (Reporting by Jose Luis Gonzalez in Ciudad Juarez and Lizbeth Diaz in Mexico City; Writing by Brendan O’Boyle; Editing by Anthony Esposito) Brought […]

PARIS (Reuters) – The number of potentially violent protesters expected to show up at protest marches against a planned pensions reform has increased, Paris’s police chief said on Tuesday, hours before a new round of country-wide demonstrations and strikes. “We are talking about individuals which often are being monitored by intelligence services, (…) and we are very vigilant about their presence,” Laurent Nunez, the president of Paris’s Prefecture de Police […]