A starling jealously guards a seed station in the back garden of the photographer’s Michigan home in January 2024. (Photo by Lisa Cavanary/Solent News)

Google has built its first self-driving car prototypes and hopes to test hundreds more models this summer. If all goes well, the company is planning a pilot program in California over the next few years.

Krysten Ritter is seen at Sundance Festival on January 19, 2014 in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Alo Ceballos/GC Images)

Model Kendall Jenner arrives at the 42nd American Music Awards in Los Angeles, California November 23, 2014. (Photo by Danny Moloshok/Reuters)

A horse-drawn cart passing through a section cut out of the base of a giant sequoia tree in the Mariposa groves of Yosemite Park, California. (Photo by Carleton E Watkins/Getty Images). 1870

General view of the atmosphere at the Halloween celebrating in city centre on October 29, 2021 in Newcastle, United Kingdom. (Photo by Newcastle New Projects)

Festival goers celebrate during the Chupinazo, marking the beginning of the San Fermin festival on July 6, 2011 in Pamplona, Spain. Pamplona's famous Fiesta de San Fermin, which involves the running of the bulls through the historic heart of Pamplona for eight days starting July 7th, was made famous by the 1926 novel of U.S. writer Ernest Hemmingway called “The Sun Also Rises”. (Photo by Denis Doyle/Getty Images)

The Rossiya (Russia) brig sails along the Neva River during a dress rehearsal of the 2021 Scarlet Sails Festival for school leavers in St Petersburg, Russia on June 25, 2021. (Photo by Peter Kovalev/TASS)