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Nearly two years after selling its autonomous vehicle research division to a competitor, Uber is finally back in the robotaxi business. The company signed a 10-year multimarket deal with Motional, a joint venture between Hyundai and Aptiv, to deploy autonomous vehicles on its ride-hailing and delivery platforms, the companies announced.

Motional’s autonomous vehicles will ferry both passengers and delivery items for Uber and its Uber Eats division, with trips expected to start later this year. The deal isn’t exclusive: Motional also operates an autonomous taxi service in Las Vegas with Uber’s main competitor Lyft, while Uber has a 10-year deal with Nuro to use the company’s driverless delivery pods in California and Texas. (Uber also has a delivery pilot in progress with Motional in Santa Monica.)

“One of the largest deployments of autonomous vehicles on a major ride-hail network”

But the Uber-Motional partnership has the appearance of being far larger and more ambitious than either of those projects. Uber said it was the first deal to span both ride-hailing and delivery, creating “one of the largest deployments of autonomous vehicles on a major ride-hail network, with the potential to reach millions of Uber riders,” the companies said.

Details are still scant about the forthcoming service. The companies said they anticipate launching in multiple cities across the US but wouldn’t disclose which markets were being targeted first. A spokesperson for Uber did confirm that potential riders would not be required to sign up for a wait list nor sign a nondisclosure

A tweet about old hair relaxer kits started a mini-reunion of models

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A burst of tweets from women who, as children, modeled for relaxer brands is one of the latest instances of the Black Twitter community finding an unexpected connection and reminiscing over a shared experience.

The discussion kicked off after @prettiestluxury tweeted a collage of models who posed on a box of no-lye relaxer saying, “I remember wanting to be the face of a hair relaxer so bad.” That was followed by a quote tweet asking these women to “show themselves,” which became the centerpiece of a wider trend.

Jaelyn Evanswho was a model on ORS’ Olive Oil Girls No-Lye Relaxer box, said that she has since gone natural. Nomsa Sasa Madidaa makeup artist, also posted a photo update on Twitter showing prominent braids that she’s now wearing long after posing for a relaxer brand.

One connection people quickly made from the posts is that nearly all of the relaxer models appear to have decided to stop using those products and instead now have natural hairstyles. Going through the tweets, I thought most of all about how much I had wanted to achieve the same styles shown in the pictures.

The conversations caught my eye as so many women reminisced on the days when they used relaxer products. Though it’s been five years since I used a relaxer on my hair, the first thing that came to mind was the memory of going to the beauty supply store and seeing the boxes lined up with the models on the

Mercedes-Benz won’t follow Tesla into the robotaxi game

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Mercedes-Benz CTO Markus Schäfer is energized by his visit to Silicon Valley. The executive is at the automaker’s Sunnyvale, California, research and development center to meet with his team and local tech companies.

“Very, very interesting discussions were had about potential partnerships in the future,” Schäfer tells The Verge as we sit down for a chat about the future of Mercedes-Benz. The company is in the midst of a supercharged transformation into an EV platform while working to become the first automaker to have a passenger vehicle for sale in the United States with Level 3 driver-assistance technology. The system allows the driver to not pay attention to the road or control the vehicle under very select circumstances — typically on the highway.

The company is in the midst of a supercharged transformation into an EV platform

It was another reason for Schfer to make the trip to California. Mercedes wants to be able to launch its Drive Pilot feature in California, but making that a reality requires regulatory approval. The executive met with officials in Sacramento. The automaker’s goal is transparency with regulators and has gotten feedback from the DMV, California Highway Patrol, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration about the system.

*Mercedes-Benz CTO Markus Schäfer is meeting with regulators about the company’s Level 3 automation feature.*

“They understand technology, the sense of redundancy [in computing], our safety philosophy, and even how we educate customers on this Level 3 system. So a very important

Elon Musk has discussed putting all of Twitter behind a paywall

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If Friday brought massive layoffs to Twitter, Monday brought fresh evidence that the company will never be the same. Musk has discussed putting the entire site behind a paywall, Platformers has learned. Meanwhile, the company is scrambling to lure back employees who it laid off mere hours ago, and some workers say the economics behind its soon-to-relaunch Twitter Blue subscription could actually lose the company money.

All of this took place against the backdrop of a company that still has yet to hear anything official from Musk, via email or a companywide meeting. As Monday began, after losing thousands of their colleagues days earlier, many employees didn’t know who their managers are.

Meanwhile, Musk’s increasing erratic leadership, coupled with his habit of tweeting in eye-watering bad tastegave many current and former employees I spoke with a sinking feeling about the future of their company.

Today let’s talk a bit more about how the company botched its layoff process, what happened inside Twitter on Monday, and what that paywall might look like.

I. The botch

Friday’s layoffs had been brutal for all involved, including those involved in planning them — many of whom themselves lost their jobs. While the process varied by team, some managers were asked to submit to Musk’s team two sentences about all of their direct reports: one sentence explaining what the employee did, and one sentence justifying their continued employment at Twitter.

“You were like, this better be a fucking good sentence,” one person asked

Astronaut James McDivitt, Apollo 9 Commander, Dies at 93

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James McDivitt, commander of the Apollo 9 mission that helped pave the way for landing the first humans on the moon, has died at the age of 93. McDivitt died Thursday in Tucson, Arizona, NASA said in a statement Monday.

McDivitt was a graduate of the Air Force Experimental Test Pilot School when he was selected to be a member of NASA’s second astronaut class in 1962. He made his first flight into space in 1965 as commander of the Gemini IV mission. During the historic four-day spaceflight, McDivitt captured iconic photos of fellow astronaut Ed White as he became the first American to venture outside his spacecraft for a spacewalk.

On the second day of his first flight in 1965, the day of White’s historic spacewalk, McDivitt reported “something out there” — an object flying outside his Gemini spacecraft that resembles a beer can. He attempted to take photos of the object but apparently misfocused the cameras.

Some would point to it as evidence of UFOs, and McDivitt would later joke that he became “a world-renowned UFO expert,” although he later concluded he had seen reflections of bolts in the multipaned windows.

Apollo 9 made a crucial test flight of the lunar module — a spacecraft known as the “glue” that would later land astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission. During the mission, McDivitt entered Earth’s orbit, along with crewmates Rusty Schweickart and David Scott, to perform the first in-space engineering