'Project Hail Mary' Creator Andy Weir Just Taught Me a Surprising Thing About Sci-FiRyan Gosling heads to space in Project Hail Mary, the big-budget sci-fi adventure movie from Oscar-winning directing duo Phil Lord and Christopher Miller that hit theaters this weekend. The film, adapted from Andy Weir's best-selling novel of the same name, finds school teacher Ryland Grace immersed in a...

Uber, Wayve and Nissan plan to launch a robotaxi service in Tokyo this year In Brief Posted: 7:58 AM PDT · March 12, 2026 Image Credits:Nissan Fresh off a $1.2B funding round, U.K.-based autonomous vehicle software company Wayve is teaming up with Uber and Nissan to launch a robotaxi service in Tokyo, with a pilot scheduled for late...

AI search grounded in Facebook posts? What could go wrong?AI is pretty reliable at putting things on your calendar these days, but it hasn’t quite cracked answering the related and all-important question of “What should I do this weekend?” Meta’s new AI Mode in search could be a useful tool — if it ever learns to stop getting stuff wrong.AI Mode is a new option when you hit the search bar in...

TechCrunch Mobility: Robotaxi reality check Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Robotaxis are here! And yet, they’re not.  That contradiction neatly captures Waymo’s current reality. Anyone walking around San Francisco could...

Seven dead in major Russian attack on Ukraine31 minutes agoSean SeddonandJessica Parker,KyivState Emergency Service of UkrainePictures release by Ukrainian authorities showed a badly damaged residential building in Dnipro At least seven people were killed in Russian strikes across Ukraine overnight, including five in the central city of Dnipro, where officials said an apartment building was...