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Dawn Aerospace Mk-II is essentially "an aircraft with the performance of a rocket, not a rocket with wings."

Waymo plans to start testing its fully autonomous vehicles with no human safety driver on freeways in the San Francisco Bay Area this week. WeRide, a Chinese autonomous vehicle company, is officially gearing up for a U.S. public debut, over a year after China started easing its effective ban of foreign IPOs. Susan Wojcicki, a longtime Googler who spent nearly a decade as the CEO of YouTube, died Friday after a two-year battle with non-small cell lung cancer.

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