But Harvest CROO doesn’t plan to sell its robot harvesters. Instead, it’s finding that growers and the strawberry distributors want robotics as a service.

When you enter the police station, head forwards and grab the First Aid Spray to your right. Then head to the southeast corner, right near where you are, and pull the lever to open the metal shutter. Interact with the shutter to crawl underneath. Follow the corridor around until you come to a white door on your left and head inside – this is the Press Room. In the far right corner, there’s a switch – flick it on to turn on the lights. Now you can grab some Handgun Ammo from the nearby corpse. Head back into the corridor and go left, interacting with a filing cabinet to lift it out of your way. To the left here there’s a bathroom. Head into the middle cubicle to get another First Aid Spray, then continue back down the corridor. You’ll hear someone screaming for help from a reception on your left – head inside and pull the shutter up to trigger a cutscene.

This service, branded Waymo One, was an extension of the company’s EasyRider programme, which was launched back in April.  In that programme, selected members of the public who were willing to sign non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) got free rides in cars where sometimes no-one sat up front: no driver, no supervising engineer.  There is much debate about how often the cars in both these programmes run with the front seats empty.  Google and Waymo won’t say, but the answer seems to be sometimes, but not often. Some people argue this means that self-driving cars won’t be ready for prime time for years to come.  Others see it as commendable caution.

ACTRESS: No. For me, that’s the most fascinating side of it. There is an authenticity question to be discussed, to be sure. There’s also an integrity value to it. It’s like Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, that scene with the golden ticket computer. He’s created a computer, and he’s presented it to his clients. “Put it into the computer, and it’ll tell me where the golden ticket is.” [Laughs] You’ve also got to account for the humor factor as well. Whenever I think of AI, I think of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. Golden ticket.

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A Greek restaurant in Hammond has gone from a sit-down eatery to a fast-casual place that specializes in the type of street food one could find in Athens.

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Toronto’s mass-transit system is a third the size of New York’s, in daily ridership, but the problems Byford found there were similar: low morale, a dilapidated infrastructure, the need to close subway lines to do the work required. “Our reputation with politicians was really low,” Piemontese said. A question lingered: Would Byford be able to get enough support for a total renewal? Before he took over, the Toronto Transit Commission had no real political visibility. “The T.T.C. for a long time didn’t have a face, a champion,” Taylor said. “Andy changed that. He had a profile I hadn’t seen in a public servant before.” Byford drew up a Customer Charter, setting benchmarks for the improvement of service, including thirty-one specific commitments in the first year. “He could have said, ‘We’re going to do this quietly,’ ” Taylor went on. “But he made it a public document, complete with timelines. It was on our Web site. We were going to be measured against it.” Byford also had to win over organized labor. “The unions are always suspicious of anybody nice,” Taylor said. “They thought Andy was there to privatize. But he wasn’t. He would fight to keep work in-house. He doesn’t tolerate poor performance, but he respects the union leaders.”

A few weeks ago I highlighted my San Francisco home on Lonny. Our family home which underwent a two-year renovation in the bathroom and kitchen after we moved in, was definitely a labor of love. Everyone talks about how home renovations aren’t for the faint of heart — and during the two-year process we really learned a lot about ourselves, the house, and everything in-between. But, when it came to transforming the kitchen from a forgotten, closed-off room to a Pinterest-worthy dining area, that’s definitely where the rubber hit the road.

Meanwhile, CNH Industrial (CNHI) in February partnered with Microsoft (MSFT) to develop connected vehicles. The aim is to produce farm machines with new connectivity technologies powered by Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform.

The technology repair shop uBreakiFix has opened in Crown Point, where it will fix smartphones, tablets, computers, video game consoles and more.