[ad_1] Yelp, which made a name for itself giving restaurant recs, just bought an auto services website. In the company’s quarterly earnings report today, Yelp revealed that it agreed to buy RepairPal, a site for car repair estimates, for $80 million in cash. The acquisition is expected to close by the end of the year, … Read more
[ad_1] With Armistice Day just under three weeks away, the Royal British Legion’s annual poppy appeal has begun. Spiralling living costs and ominous predictions about Rachel Reeves’ maiden budget this week had led me to ponder whether Brits’ appetite for charitable donation, however worthy the cause, may have waned. A pootle down to London Waterloo … Read more
[ad_1] The funnest car I ever drove was the original Tesla Roadster. This was in 2011, back when Elon Musk’s EV company was courting press instead of denigrating us, and they offered me a test drive. I took the car up I-280 — a beautiful, mostly deserted highway with perfectly banked curves that seemed designed for … Read more
[ad_1] Sophia Tung set up a livestream this past summer, showing self-driving Waymo cars honking from the San Francisco parking lot near her apartment at all hours of the night. As a kind of apology for the nuisance, Waymo threw an ice cream party in Tung’s building and gave Tung, a former Twitter engineer, some … Read more
[ad_1] Eshan Bilal, 18, contracted sepsis and pneumonia in 2022 and spent two months fighting for his life in hospital, including three weeks in an induced coma. But now he is studying medicine at the University of St Andrews, which has been made possible in part by a bequest from a fund set up by … Read more