Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionDevastation as Michael makes landfall The most powerful hurricane ever to hit north-west Florida has flooded beach towns, submerging homes and snapping trees like twigs.Hurricane Michael made landfall on Wednesday afternoon as a category three storm with 125mph (200km/h) winds in the state's Panhandle region.One person was…
Amazon’s recent move to raise the minimum wage of its directly employed and contracted workers to at least $15 an hour led to some employees calculating they would earn less with the elimination of bonuses and stock awards. The company said today it plans to adjust wages and bonuses to ensure those workers don’t receive…
Waymo's self-driving cars have driven 10 million miles on public roads, the company announced on Wednesday. That puts the company way, way ahead of any of its rivals. Only one other company has announced more than a million miles of testing. And that was Uber, which announced 2 million miles last year but was forced…
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Reuters) - Hurricane Michael was still strengthening as it closed in on the Florida Panhandle on Wednesday with the threat of catastrophic surges of sea water and roof-shredding winds, and was expected to be the worst hurricane ever recorded in the region. Michael caught many by surprise with its rapid intensification as it…
Mario Tama/Getty Images Stocks fell Wednesday as Wall Street sweats over global growth prospects and a bond selloff. The 2-year yield hit its highest level since 2008. Trade-sensitive industrial stocks also fell as tensions between Washington and Beijing persisted. Stocks fell Wednesday as concerns about global economic growth and ongoing trade tensions continued to hang…
President Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki R. Haley, said on Tuesday that she would resign at the end of the year, marking the departure of one of the few high-profile women in the Trump administration. Ms. Haley, a former Republican governor of South Carolina, had been an early and frequent critic of Mr.…
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Florida Governor Rick Scott warned state residents that "this storm could kill you" Powerful Hurricane Michael is set to make landfall in Florida later on Wednesday, forcing mass evacuations in the southern US state. A category three storm with winds near 125mph (200km/h), Michael is expected to strengthen further…
If Travis VanderZanden is hellbent on taking over the world, you’d never know it. Unlike that other Travis—the Uber (and Lyft) veteran’s onetime boss, VanderZanden is happy to note—he’s neither exuberant nor aggressive. The sneaker-clad executive, 39, took to the stage at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit on Tuesday by rolling in on one…
Enlarge / Google Call Screening sample image shows the kinds of replies your assistant can speak out loud—unless you just choose to hang up and report a call as spam. GoogleAs expected, Google's Tuesday hardware announcement event came with a few announcements of software- and AI-driven features and products. One of those, like last year's Duplex,…
Nikki Haley abruptly resigned as US ambassador to the United Nations on Tuesday, a move she said she had talked about with President Donald Trump for months. During an appearance in the Oval Office, Trump confirmed to reporters he'd accepted Haley's resignation and said she's expected to leave the administration "at the end of the…
