Uber is aggressively partnering with multiple robotaxi companies to avoid a future dominated by Waymo or Tesla. The ride-hailing giant has struck deals with at least a dozen autonomous vehicle players in recent years. Just last week, it announced a $1.25 billion partnership with Rivian, with plans to deploy up to 50,000 driverless vehicles over the next decade. Business Insider reports: Uber announced three new robotaxi partnerships in the past few weeks with Zoox, Wayve-Nissan, and Rivian. In less than half a decade, the company has secured at least a dozen deals, including with WeRide, AVride, May Mobility, Momenta, Pony.AI, Wayve, Baidu's Apollo Go, Motional, and Lucid-Nuro. Still, less than a half-dozen of Uber's partners have deployed fully driverless, paid robotaxi operations, and only one, Waymo, operates in the US. Uber has a joint deployment with Waymo in Atlanta, Austin, and Phoenix, but in other cities, Waymo is a competitor.

Uber's partnership spree is less about seeking the singular, dominant player of autonomous driving. Instead, analysts told Business Insider that Uber is ensuring multiple vendors can participate in the expensive business of robotaxis -- fending off the real risk of a Waymo or Tesla scaling on its own -- and giving itself a stake in the robotaxi economy by being the aggregator of choice. "The more diversified the supplier base, the better for the network in the middle, which is Uber," Mark Mahaney, an Uber analyst for Evercore ISI, told Business Insider.

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Computershack shares a report from NBC News: Leonid Radvinsky, the owner of adult-content platform OnlyFans, has died of cancer at the age of 43, the company said in a statement on Monday. "We are deeply saddened to announce the death of Leo Radvinsky. Leo passed away peacefully after a long battle with cancer," an OnlyFans spokesperson said. "His family have requested privacy at this difficult time."

Radvinsky, a Ukrainian-American entrepreneur, acquired Fenix International Limited, the parent company of OnlyFans, in 2018 and served as its director and majority shareholder. He also runs Leo, a venture capital fund he founded in 2009 that focuses primarily on investments in technology companies. According to Reuters, OnlyFans is valued at around $5.5 billion, including debt.

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Captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission in June 2025, the image shows the Mackenzie River in Canada. It is Canada’s largest river basin, covering about 1.8 million square kilometres or about 20% of the landmass of Canada. It was one of the rivers used in an ESA-funded study, which used satellite data to reconstruct two decades of river discharge and runoff. The research revealed a striking mosaic of regional change as warming temperatures and shifting precipitation reshape the Arctic’s hydrological system in uneven ways.

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Credits: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2025), processed by ESAñ CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

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Nearly a millennium ago, astronomers witnessed a brilliant new star blazing in the sky — a supernova so bright it was visible in daylight for weeks. Today, its expanding remnant, the Crab Nebula, continues to evolve 6,500 light-years away. First linked to historical records by Edwin Hubble, the nebula has since been studied in exquisite detail by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which has now revisited this ancient explosion to trace its ongoing expansion and transformation.

A quarter-century after its first observations of the full Crab Nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope has taken a fresh look at the supernova remnant. The Crab Nebula is the aftermath of SN 1054, located 6,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Taurus.

The result is an unparalleled, detailed look at the aftermath of a supernova and how it has evolved over Hubble’s long lifetime. A paper detailing the new Hubble observation is published in The Astrophysical Journal.

The supernova remnant was discovered in the mid-18th century, and in the 1950s Edwin Hubble was among several astronomers who noted the close correlation between Chinese astronomical records of a supernova and the position of the Crab Nebula. The discovery that the heart of the Crab contained a pulsar — a rapidly rotating neutron star — that was powering the nebula’s expansion finally aligned modern observations and ancient records.

In its new image of the nebula, Hubble has captured extraordinary details of its filamentary structure, as well as the considerable outward movement of those filaments over 25 years, at a pace of 5.5 million kilometres per hour. Hubble is the only telescope with the combination of longevity and resolution capable of capturing these detailed changes.

For better comparison with the new image, Hubble’s 1999 image of the Crab was re-processed. The variation of colors in both of the Hubble images shows a combination of changes in local temperature and density of the gas as well as its chemical composition.

The science team has noted that the filaments around the periphery of the nebula appear to have moved more compared to those in the centre and that rather than stretching out over time, they appear to have simply moved outward. This is due to the nature of the Crab as a pulsar wind nebula powered by synchrotron radiation, which is created by the interaction between the pulsar’s magnetic field and the nebula’s material. In other well-known supernova remnants, the expansion is instead driven by shockwaves from the initial explosion, eroding surrounding shells of gas that the dying star previously cast off.

The new, higher-resolution Hubble observations are also providing additional insights into the 3D structure of the Crab Nebula, which can be difficult to determine from a 2D image. Shadows of some of the filaments can be seen cast onto the haze of synchrotron radiation in the nebula’s interior. Counterintuitively, some of the brighter filaments in the latest Hubble images show no shadows, indicating they must be located on the far side of the nebula.

According to the science team, the real value of Hubble’s Crab Nebula observations is still to come. The Hubble data can be paired with recent data from other telescopes that are observing the Crab in different wavelengths of light. The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope released its infrared-light observations of the Crab Nebula in 2024. Comparison of the Hubble image with other contemporary multiwavelength observations will help scientists put together a more complete picture of the supernova’s continuing aftermath, centuries after astronomers first wondered at a new little star twinkling in the sky.

[Image description: A detailed astronomical image of a bright, cloud‑like nebula set against a black background of space. The nebula is formed by intricate, web‑like filaments of gas and dust in shades of blue, red, pink, yellow, and white. A luminous central region glows pale blue, surrounded by swirling, branching structures that extend outward in all directions. Scattered stars appear as small white points across the scene.]

Credits: NASA, ESA, STScI, W. Blair (JHU). Image Processing: J. DePasquale (STScI)

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Arctic rivers and runoff from the land pour vast volumes of freshwater into the Arctic Ocean, influencing seawater salinity, sea-ice formation and ocean circulation, thereby playing an important role in regulating Earth’s heat balance.

As northern monitoring networks decline, scientists have turned to satellite data to reconstruct two decades of river discharge and runoff, revealing a striking mosaic of regional change as warming temperatures and shifting precipitation reshape the Arctic’s hydrological system in uneven and unexpected ways.

The map shows variations in runoff across the Arctic during 2003–2022 along and indicates 15 river basins used in the study.

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Credits: ESA (adapted from Leopardi F. et al., 2026); CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

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To do things differently, you have to see things differently.

Ok, maybe a little dramatic for a galaxy image, but hey it’s good advice.

Webb captured this new image of galaxy Messier 58, in both the near and mid-infrared, as part of a treasury of 55 massive, star-forming galaxies. The data on the properties of these galaxies, and the stars within them, will add valuable insight to our picture of how galaxies grow and evolve over cosmic time.

M58 is a barred spiral galaxy located about 68 million light years away from Earth and one of the brightest galaxies in the Virgo Cluster. Compared with other spiral galaxies, its core appears dim in visible light and contains a high rate of star formation, especially within a small and unusual ring around the nucleus of the galaxy. In the infrared, more details of this region emerge.

Credit: NASA, CSA, ESA, and A. Leroy (The Ohio State University); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)

Image description: Webb’s image of M58 shows a face-on spiral galaxy anchored by its bright central region, which has a light blue haze that takes up about a quarter of the view. In this circular core is the brightest blue area. Spiral arms made of stars, gas, and dust also start at the center, starting at the brightest point. The spiral arms extend to the edges, rotating counterclockwise. The arms of the galaxy are largely orange, ranging from dark to bright orange.

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Het onderscheid tussen hard- en softdrugs vormt al een halve eeuw dé pijler onder het Nederlandse drugsbeleid. Maar op de menukaarten van de moderne Whatsapp-dealers wordt álles aangeboden: van coke tot sigaretten, van zware pijnstillers tot vapes.

Frikandellenkoningin Natasja Warnars organiseert jaarlijks meerdere frikandellenwandelingen door het Zuid-Hollandse Dordrecht, de bakermat van de snack. „Laatst at ik nog tien frikandellen.”

The Washington Post reported this weekend that Szijjártó regularly called Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during breaks in EU meetings to give "direct reports on what was discussed" and suggest possible courses of action.

Aston Martin Third Driver Jak Crawford will take part in the opening practice session at the Japanese Grand Prix, the team have announced.

As Max Verstappen prepares for his Nurburgring 24 Hours debut later this season, F1.com looks back at the drivers who enjoyed successful outings in other racing series whilst still active in Formula 1.

Any dog owner can appreciate the kind of unfettered, often visceral reactions canines have to everything from their favorite treats to a scurrying squirrel to another dog passing by the window. Their lack of inhibition and legendary fidelity bring comfort, routine, and goofiness to our daily lives despite their total unawareness of their effects on us. For Stephen Morrison, curiosity and play find their way into vibrant, quirky paintings that “invite viewers to rediscover the magic and absurdity often obscured by the routine,” he says.

Morrison’s practice has lately revolved around trompe l’œil compositions of everyday objects and tableaux in which dogs’ features appear unexpectedly. A snout stands in for the flap of a handbag or juts out from the side of a Pepsi can. His current solo exhibition, Dog Show #5: Field Recordings at SLAG&RX, centers on a series of objects referencing places he worked on the pieces—Paris, New York City, and Maine—that also play important roles in his life.

Morrison’s own memories and connections find their way into his collection of books, foods, photographs, and other items in an almost seek-and-find fashion. At first glance, the tableaux appear simply as collections of everyday things like vases, fruit, and cameras. But upon closer inspection, tiny visages appear along with references to dogs, from bones stitched into patchwork backgrounds to the sleepy face of a pooch in the center of a starfish and a bunch of green grapes with puppy faces. Always relaxed, even sleepy, the dogs’ expressions evoke a calm sweetness, even nostalgia, paired with a sense of abundance.

In this series, the artist grapples with what belonging means, from revisiting his childhood home in Maine to thinking about his past decade in New York City to spending two months in Paris, where, “despite being married to a Frenchman, having many French friends, and having spent considerable time in the city, I had never felt at home,” he says. “The ornate beauty of the architecture and the sense I have of everything being solidly ‘in its place’ makes it hard to feel inspired there for me.” So, he set out to explore that sense of disjointedness and creative conflict.

France is referenced in Morrison’s paintings by backgrounds of toile, or toile de jouy, a fabric design popular in the 18th century that features pastoral scenes, while Maine is represented by patchwork quilts he co-designed with his mother, who actually stitched them before they were incorporated into the works. “By bringing the objects and backgrounds into my dog world, I’ve rewritten my external material world through this lens, creating a new and more uniquely personal vision of these places,” he says.

Morrison will be an artist-in-residence at BUoY in Tokyo this summer, where he’s looking forward to incorporating Japanese textiles into a new series of paintings. He’s also preparing for a pop-up solo exhibition at Lazy Mike Gallery in Seoul and a group exhibition at Hashimoto Contemporary. Dog Show #5: Field Recordings continues through March 28 in New York. See more on the artist’s Instagram.

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KYIV (ANP) - De Oekraïense president Volodymyr Zelensky beschuldigt Rusland ervan het regime in Iran te blijven helpen door inlichtingen te verstrekken. Zelensky claimt in een bericht op X daar "onweerlegbaar bewijs" van te hebben.

Rusland gebruikt volgens Zelensky inlichtingen die het zelf vergaart, maar ook gegevens die het krijgt via partners in het Midden-Oosten. De president zegt zich te baseren op een verslag van de chef van zijn militaire inlichtingendienst.

Er zijn al weken berichten dat Rusland de Iraniërs zou helpen met informatie over Amerikaanse troepen in het Midden-Oosten. De krant The Washington Post schreef daar begin maart al over.

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Nieuwssite Politico schreef vorige week dat Rusland de VS heeft aangeboden daarmee te stoppen. De Amerikanen zouden dan als tegenprestatie de inlichtingensteun aan Oekraïne moeten staken. De VS zouden het voorstel hebben afgewezen.

Rusland heeft dat publiekelijk niet toegegeven. Een Russische gezant noemde het Politico-bericht nepnieuws.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Het maximumaantal vluchten van en naar Schiphol is vooralsnog niet veranderd nadat de Raad van State regels daarover schrapte. De luchtvaartautoriteit van de Inspectie Leefomgeving en Transport (ILT) valt terug op de gedoogsituatie die eerder ook gold, meldt een woordvoerder na vragen van het ANP.

De gedoogsituatie betekent dat de ILT-Luchtvaartautoriteit van het kabinet niet mag ingrijpen als Schiphol te veel herrie veroorzaakt, zolang het jaarlijkse aantal vluchten onder 478.000 blijft. Het is nog niet duidelijk of Schiphol boven dat aantal wel met maatregelen te maken kan krijgen.

Twee weken geleden vernietigde de Raad van State het zogeheten Luchthavenverkeersbesluit voor Schiphol. Daarin legde het kabinet het maximumaantal vluchten vast op 478.000 per jaar. Sinds de uitspraak geldt dus geen officieel maximumaantal vluchten, aldus de inspectie.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - De politie heeft meer dan 150 tips ontvangen over de explosie bij een joodse school in Amsterdam. Vorige week toonde zij bewakingsbeelden van twee verdachten van de aanslag, die plaatsvond in de nacht van vrijdag 13 op zaterdag 14 maart.

Datzelfde weekend, in de nacht van zondag op maandag, ontplofte een explosief bij het kantoorgebouw Atrium op de Zuidas. Inmiddels heeft de politie ook beelden van een verdachte in verband met deze explosie. Die worden maandagavond getoond in Opsporing Verzocht.

​Pete Hegseth heeft voor de tweede keer in korte tijd de naam van zijn ministerie veranderd. Het voormalige ministerie van Oorlog, voorheen ministerie van Defensie, heet vanaf deze week het Department of Cool Wars with Awesome Guns and Bombs. Hegseth reageert met een langgerekt ‘yeaah!’ bij het aankondigen van zijn besluit.

“Guys”, zegt de voormalige FoxNews-presentator, “dit is net Call of Duty, toch? Right? Dat is toch waar oorlog allemaal om draait: big guns, vette bommen, mannen met heel veel spieren, Top Gun en andere niet woke dingen. Eindelijk heeft het ministerie een passende naam die weergeeft dat onze oorlogen gewoon heel cool zijn en dus geen exercities zijn die ons veel mensenlevens gaan kosten. Yeah!”

“We voeren deze oorlog in naam van Jezus en God. En God zou niet willen dat we dat onder zo’n kneuze naam doen zoals ‘Ministerie van Defensie’. Het was al een vette naam, maar nu is het nog vetter”, aldus Hegseth. De operatie in Iran die nu de naam ‘Epic Fury’ heeft, wordt mogelijk ook hernoemd. “Ik zat te denken aan ‘Super Mega Epic Guns Blazing Hot Sexy No Rules Armageddon'.”

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