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How Broadcast, Cable and Late-Night Shows Plan to Cover the Midterm Elections

Viewers will be flooded with options, including 13 straight hours of NBC footage and a continuous livestream of Steve Kornacki and his big board.

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Steve Kornacki, NBC’s data analyst, will host a continuous livestream beginning late afternoon on Election Day.

The Ecologist Surveying What NYC Looked Like Before the Concrete

The ecologist Eric W. Sanderson surveys the historical landscape of New York in a new book that, at 900,000 words, is as massive as the city it chronicles.

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Eric W. Sanderson, a man in his habitat, told the story of Manhattan more than a decade ago. His new book, β€œBefore New York,” takes the measure of the city in full, from its earliest days.

Forget "Malaise 2.0," GM says it's still all-in on EVs and autonomy

It’s easy to criticize US automakers and their tepid approach to electric vehicles under the current administration and the expiration of the EV tax credit. It’s also easy to look at the rest of the world's embrace of EVs and wonder if the US is entering a β€œMalaise 2.0” era. Which is why GM wants the world to know that it is still focused on its end goals of electrification, autonomy, and improving vehicle quality while reducing development time.

At this year’s GM Forward event, company executives announced that its hands-off, eyes-off Super Cruise technology will expand across the lineup and be available on nearly every vehicle. This will include the pickup trucks and the crossovers, and not just the Escalade IQ that it was announced for last year.

Sterling Anderson, GM’s head of product, said the company is testing this technology to the tune of 1 million miles (1.6 million km) a month in both the virtual and real world. The goal is that not only would the vehicle be able to take you places, but it could go and do things for you.

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