Waymo is currently on an expansion spree for its fleet of self-driving taxis, but it appears that the company can't keep trouble out of those plans. After reports of unexplained stalling, blocking traffic, and even driving in circles with a passenger stuck inside, the...

The historian A.J.P. Taylor once quipped that the only thing people learn from the mistakes of the past is how to make new mistakes. But there are nevertheless many lessons to be learned if you look in the right places. Consider the extraordinary parallels between...

Retirees face nervous times ahead if Vanguard is right. The investment giant, which is owned by its 50 million investors, warns that U.S. stock-market returns may be ominously low over the next 10 years. And while a “lost decade” of low stock returns may be something...

If driverless cars are the future, we might see way more of this ... a Waymo took a left turn smack dab into the middle of a police standoff ... and it's all on video. Viral video spreading on social media shows one of the driverless ride service vehicles taking a...

Everyone is trying to put the massive AI spend by technology companies into context. The easiest historical analogies are the telecomm buildout in the 1990s dot-com bubble and the railway bubbles of the 1800s. Each period was defined by excessive infrastructure...

Americans with four-year college degrees now comprise a record 25% of total unemployment, underscoring a sharp slowdown in white-collar hiring this year. Government-shutdown delayed monthly figures published Thursday by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics showed the...