Airlines in the U.S., Europe and Asia are temporarily reducing some flights and routes to inspect aircraft affected by the recall of hundreds of Pratt & Whitney jet engines, leaving the unit of the aerospace and defense company RTX facing a potential multibillion-dollar bill.

Some 137 engines used on Airbus single-aisle jets will need to be inspected over the next several weeks, RTX said Friday. That is fewer than the 200 originally expected but still a problem for carriers that were already dealing with staffing shortages and air-traffic control congestion.


America's Most Tech-Forward City Has Doubts About Self-Driving Cars

SAN FRANCISCO-This city's inhabitants embraced computers, the Internet and cellphones before the rest of the world caught on. They are not so sure about self-driving cars.

Suddenly, orange and white driverless Cruise and Waymo cars seem to be everywhere. Some first responders say they get in the way, and pedestrians fill social media with reports of the cars' antics. They have collided with at least two pets. An anti-car activist group placed orange traffic cones on the hoods of the vehicles, freezing them in place while creating viral videos of the stunt.


Google Search Antitrust Suit Narrowed by Federal Judge Ahead of September Trial

A federal judge narrowed a major antitrust case against Alphabet's Google ahead of a trial that is slated to begin next month, rejecting an argument made by a bipartisan group of 38 state attorneys general who sued the tech company in 2020 over its search dominance.

In a decision unsealed on Friday, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta rejected a legal theory pushed by the state attorneys general in their December 2020 lawsuit. But he allowed the Justice Department and the state attorneys general to make other arguments during the nonjury trial he will oversee starting in September.


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