Nicotine pouches offer huge promise—so long as the U.S. doesn’t repeat its mistake with vaping

Two Waymo Robotaxis Crashed Into Each Other, Confusing a Third Waymo and Blocking the Street

Waymo is having a weird week. A woman just gave birth in one of their robot taxis. The company also suffered a major software recall after a few cars blew through school bus stops. And now, in the midst of all that, there was a three-car pileup in San Francisco… and all three cars were Waymos. Yikes. The scene, captured via TikTok video, looks like a Sergio Leone-style Mexican standoff, but with three driverless cars cycling through their progra…

Nicotine pouches offer huge promise—so long as the U.S. doesn’t repeat its mistake with vaping

Smoking is one of the clearest public-health failures of our time. More than 500,000 Americans still die each year from smoking-related illnesses, and globally the picture is even more alarming. In the United States, anti-smoking campaigns have reduced the number of new cigarette users, but the effectiveness of these measures may be fading. Indeed, the headline of a widely-shared news story notes “Celebrities Are Making Smoking Cigarettes Cool A…