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WSJ Tech News Briefing

TNB Tech Minute: Waymo Sets Its Sights on NYC, With a Twist

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Tech News

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Plus: More than $90 million is drained from Iran’s biggest crypto exchange. And, Texas Instruments to invest $60 billion in made-in-America production. Victoria Craig hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the year 2000.

0:02.8

Everyone, everywhere, is having fun, except me.

0:06.6

On BBC Eye Player.

0:08.0

I worry you're growing up too fast.

0:10.6

Yeah, we can't be your little ducky forever, can I?

0:13.0

Inspired by a true story.

0:14.8

Walk out of this house a boy, one day you'll come back.

0:17.8

When you do, you will be a man.

0:20.2

I won't hold your breath. What it feels like for a girl. I wish I could look like you. come back. When you do, you will be a man. Oh, and hard your breath.

0:21.5

What it feels like for a girl. I wish I could look like you. Bebe, you can. Why don't you?

0:27.0

Watch on BBC Eye Player.

0:31.5

Here's your TNB Tech Minute for Wednesday, June 18th. I'm Victoria Craig for the Wall Street Journal.

0:37.1

Waymo is making its way back

0:38.9

to the Big Apple. The white cars tricked out with cameras will cruise New York City streets for the

0:43.7

first time since 2021 when Waymo mapped part of Manhattan and conducted tests. But the driverless car

0:50.4

company will be putting humans in the driver's seat this time around. That's because New York

0:54.6

State law doesn't allow autonomous vehicles on the road. Waymo said it's pushing for changes to the law,

1:00.6

and it's applied for a New York City permit to allow the cars to drive themselves with a

1:05.3

specialist behind the wheel. Elsewhere, more than $90 million was drained from Iran's biggest

1:10.7

cryptocurrency exchange today.

1:12.8

A pro-Israel hacking group claimed responsibility according to a blockchain analysis firm,

1:17.4

Elyptic, which said the attack appeared to be motivated by ongoing hostilities between Iran and Israel.

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