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Disney’s decision to raise its streaming prices comes just a few months after market leader Netflix took a similar step

Uber and Google's autonomous vehicle unit Waymo said they are joining forces to get driverless trucks hauling cargo on roads across the United States.    

Due to the vast distances between American cities and with truck transport key to the economy, companies see self-driving as a way to cut costs and reduce risk.    

The San Francisco Bay Area is by far the largest climate tech hub

Google, whose parent company is Alphabet, has partnered with a health care company on a secret project to collect the personal health data of millions of Americans from 21 states, Reuters reported, citing a publication in the Wall Street Journal.

Researchers at Oxford University and DeepMind Technologies, a UK-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) company owned by Alphabet Inc. - a conglomerate best known as the parent company of Google - have created "Pythia," an ancient text restoration system that outperforms experts in guessing the missing text from partially destroyed Ancient Greek inscriptions.

Shares in Netflix fell 11 percent in early trade on Thursday, as investors worried over lower-than-expected global growth and signs of trouble in its US base.

The company added just 2.83 million international paid streaming subscribers, compared with street expectations of 4.8 million.

Netflix has added less than planned new subscribers and the company shares on the stock exchange have declined, Euronews reported.

The release of Yılmaz Erdoğan's latest film "Organize İşler 2: Sazan Sarmalı" onto the international digital platform Netflix two weeks after it first appeared in Turkish cinemas has drawn anger from cinemagoers and Turkish cinema sector officials. 

Google's parent company Alphabet on Monday said it was investing more than $1 billion to set up a new campus in New York City, reports AFP. 

In a blog post, Alphabet and Google CFO Ruth Porat said it would lease large office buildings in Manhattan's West Village neighbourhood which will become the centerpiece of a campus of more than 1.7 million square-feet (160,000 square metres).

With a lolling tongue and a propensity to drool, English Bulldog Zsa Zsa won best in show at World's Ugliest Dog competition in Petaluma, California.