Where can you park your car safely? Mercedes will answer that question in the future. The German car manufacturer is working on an application that checks the available parking spaces at the final destination on the basis of public crime statistics.
Amazon wants to open a store without cash register in New York. That reports techsite The Information. Amazon already has three such supermarkets in their home city of Seattle. In addition, there are branches of Amazon Go in Chicago and San Francisco.
Italy is the land of cappuccinos and espressos, but the Italians are now also faced with frappuccinos. The American chain Starbucks has opened its first tent in the country on Friday. There was a long line with hundreds of tourists and Italians in front of the Milan office. 'I hope the coffee tastes better here than in America,' said a Milanese customer.
It is still unclear what inspired the 29-year-old man who stole an empty passenger plane in Seattle Friday, stunted it and eventually crashed. According to American media, it would be Richard Russel, a flight attendant without a pilot's license, who had been employed by airline Horizon Air for 3.5 years.
It is still a mystery how a 29-year-old aviation officer in Seattle could steal a passenger plane and later crash into a small island. The man died in the crash. The police assume suicide. No victims have fallen on the ground.
At the airport of the American city of Seattle an aviation officer took off with a passenger plane and crashed not much later. There were no people on board the aircraft according to the airport.
The federal appeals court in Seattle has instructed the American environmental agency EPA to ban the widely used insecticide chlorpyrifos. Two of the three judges were of the opinion that a decision by the then EPA boss Scott Pruitt should be reversed.
Seventeen American states are taking the Trump government to court because they want to put an end to separating immigrants from their children. The states call this policy 'cruel and unlawful.' They demand that the children be reunited with their parents.
Are the New Yorkers slurping their beloved plastic straws for the last time? If it is up to the municipal administration of the American metropolis. Fast food chains and restaurants may be banned from using plastic straws for longer.
Russia rejects sixty American diplomats. The US consulate in St Petersburg must also close, Russian minister Sergei Lavrov (Foreign Affairs) announced.
A man from the US state of Washington was arrested after sending several bombships to military locations in the US and a CIA office. According to the Federal Police FBI, the packages have not exploded.
Among the sixty Russians that Washington expels, twelve Russian diplomats are with the United Nations. The US government accuses the UN diplomats of doing intelligence work.
Residents of Seattle were in turmoil earlier this week: who had suddenly hung the Confederate Flag under the American flag? It turned out not only to go to the flag in the United States, but to Norway's.
Unfiltered water seems to be a new trend among health freaks in the United States. Fanciers are willing to pay almost 40 dollars for about 4 liters of 'raw' water. But according to experts, the hip drink is better not to be drunk.
The National Transportation Safety Council (NTSB) of the US Tuesday admitted that the automatic brake system PTC was not installed on the route where a major train accident took place on Monday.
The train derailed in the north-west of the United States on Monday was driving too fast through a bend and then on a bridge over a highway. According to the authorities, the train should have braked before the bend and bridge and should travel no more than 50 kilometers per hour.
The mayor of Seattle Ed Murray, 62, announced his resignation on Tuesday, a few hours after being accused of sexual abuse of young boys in the seventies and eighties. That was all the fifth case. This time it would be a nephew who was thirteen years old at that time.
Amazon wants to open a second headquarters in North America, next to its base in Seattle. The company draws more than 5 billion dollars, out of over 4 billion euros.
Yahoo's Amazon and Cortana voice assistants should communicate with each other. By the end of this year, people should be able to use Alexa Cortana and vice versa. The two companies worked behind the scenes over the past year, and according to the New York Times, Amazon and Microsoft announced the collaboration later on Wednesday.
Webstore giant Amazon has gained green light to take over Whole Foods supermarket group.
Google buys a company that develops apps that can measure people's health through the smartphone. That reports GeekWire based on sources around the negotiations. It is not known how much Google pays for Senosis Health. The companies themselves do not make any statements yet.
The 'World Championship' in the Dota 2 game has the biggest prize pool for an eSport ever. The counter has already been $ 20.8 million (18.2 million euros) and that is still happening. Dota 2 discontinues his own record, because last year the participants could divide 20.7 million dollars together.
A passenger attempted to open the emergency door of the plane during a flight from Seattle to China. Friday he was accused of attacking airline personnel.
Men in Madrid noticed. If you go by bus, you have to keep your legs together. The Spanish town has started a campaign to combat 'manspread'. This is respectful of the other bus passengers.
Amazon has a new market on the eye. The American company, the world's largest online store, also seems to want to become a supermarket chain. With self-scanners, without cash registers and no employees.
Webshop Amazon is considering taking out pharmacy items. The billionaire group wants to tackle expensive medicines.
Microsoft is a promise made in December. The Windowsmaker gives developers access to Cortana speech assistant. Microsoft has announced the opening of Cortana during the Build Developer Conference in Seattle.
Germans can also order their daily groceries at Amazon. The webshop has a food branch, AmazonFresh, which supplies from Berlin in Berlin and Potsdam from Thursday. AmazonFresh has 85,000 items in the assortment and says that groceries ordered before 12:00 have been delivered before dinner.
The son of a Russian MP has been sentenced by a judge in the Seattle city of Seattle to 27 years of age because of credit card data of about 500 US companies.
The creators of the chat app Confide are proud by many government officials in Washington, D.C. to be used as a secure means of communication, but according Cyber Coop there is a lot to be desired. The website has a search of IOActive showing that there are multiple risky holes in the software.
