Sep 14 Watch 6:08 How Uber is helping steer the future of self-driving cars By PBS News Hour Uber released its first fleet of self-driving cars in Pittsburgh on Wednesday. For now, they are also equipped with a human technician. Hari Sreenivasan speaks with Alex Davies of Wired Magazine -- a journalist who took a ride in one… Continue watching
Aug 18 Uber to launch fleet of self-driving Volvos. Will Pittsburgh residents hop in? By Nana Adwoa Antwi-Boasiako, Joshua Barajas As part of a $300 million deal with Volvo, Uber said it will produce a fleet of 100 self-driving XC90 vehicles for the test program by the end of the year. The test program will start in Pittsburgh. Continue reading
Mar 22 Watch 8:13 Can an innovative Pittsburgh program help repair the broken lives of foster youth? By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 04 Richard Mellon Scaife, billionaire newspaper publisher, dies at 82 By Talia Mindich As heir to the Mellon banking and oil fortune, the notoriously reclusive Scaife,… Continue reading
Jul 10 Watch Liao Yiwu Howls Against the Chinese Government, Offers Memories of Prison Liao Yiwu Howls Against the Chinese Government, Offers Memories of Prison… Continue watching
Nov 03 Andre Kertesz Captured the Art of Reading By Tom LeGro "On Reading," an exhibition on view at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, collects photos taken by Hungarian photographer Andre Kertesz over a decades' long career of people in private moments reading books, newspapers or magazines. Continue reading
Sep 30 Watch Writers in Danger Offered Safe Haven to Practice Craft in Pittsburgh In Pittsburgh, a special program offers foreign writers whose lives are endangered to get a new start and write freely. Continue watching
Sep 30 Thursday on the NewsHour: City of Asylum/Pittsburgh By Tom LeGro City of Asylum/Pittsburgh is a six-year-old program that provides shelter to foreign literary writers who have encountered dangers in their homeland. Watch online exclusive videos of the writers reading their work. Continue reading
Jan 18 Weekly Poem: 'Root' By Arts Desk Terrance Hayes is the author of three books of poems: "Muscular Music" (1999); "Hip Logic" (2002, National Poetry Series winner); and "Wind in a Box" (2006), and the recipient of many awards, including a Pushcart Prize, a Best American Poetry… Continue reading
Oct 26 Watch Writer Michael Chabon Explores Regrets, Pleasures Pulitzer-prize winning author Michael Chabon sits down with Jeffrey Brown to talk about his new book, "Manhood for Amateurs."… Continue watching