The Disappearing Growth of Snapchat
On the second floor of the new headquarters of Snap Inc. in Santa Monica, Calif., is a room dedicated to helping employees open up. It’s round and lined with potted plants. “Speak from the heart,”...
View ArticleSocial Media is the Cancer of Our Times – LA Times Owner
Billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong on Wednesday advocated for a change in how people consume news on social media, calling the platforms the “cancer of our time.” “The short attention span we’re creating...
View ArticleBig Data Crunching Company Databricks Attracts $1 Billion Funding From...
Databricks, a start-up whose software helps companies quickly process large sets of data and get it ready for analysis, said Monday it has raised $1 billion in fresh cash, including from a few...
View ArticleSpaceX To Send Four Civilians To The Space Using A Reusable Rocket, Mission...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is creating history and how. The aerospace giant has decided to launch the first-ever all-civilians mission to space sometime in the fourth quarter of the year. Named Inspiration 4,...
View ArticleFord And Google Sign Six-Year Deal For In Car Connectivity And Cloud Services
Ford and Google are entering a six-year deal that will make the tech giant responsible for much of the automaker’s growing in-vehicle connectivity. Google will also provide cloud computing and other...
View ArticleTesla Full Self-Driving May Go To Wide Public Release By July
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) software may go public before July, Elon Musk said on Twitter on Wednesday (US time). Tesla released its FSD beta program in late 2020, and when it is released publicly...
View ArticleNvidia to acquire autonomous vehicles’ mapping startup DeepMap
Chip-maker Nvidia is acquiring DeepMap, a startup dedicated to building high-definition maps for autonomous vehicles (AV), for an undisclosed sum. DeepMap was founded five years ago by Wu and Mark...
View ArticleFacebook AI Introduces Habitat 2.0: Next-Generation Simulation Platform
Facebook recently announced Habitat 2.0, a next-generation simulation platform that lets AI researchers teach machines to navigate through photo-realistic 3D virtual environments and interact with...
View ArticleToyota Backed Pony.Ai’s Launches Self Driving Cars Robotaxi Service In Shanghai
As the self driving car industry works towards commercializing the autonomous vehicle technology, Pony.ai has plans to mass-produce its Level 4 self-driving system by 2023. The intent was shared by the...
View ArticleColdquanta Uses Cold Atoms To Build A Qauntum Computer
There are multiple ways of building a quantum computer, from superconducting and photonics to topological and ion trap, many backed by such big names as IBM, Google, Microsoft and Honeywell. However,...
View ArticleGoogle Pixel 6, Ultra High End Phone To Sport Tensor SoC Chip
GoogleGoogle is announcing the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro today, though it might be better to call it a preview or a tease. Rather than releasing all the details on its new Android phones, Google is...
View ArticleGoogle Parent Alphabet Launches A New Company To Build Software For...
Google’s parent-company Alphabet has a birth to announce: a new company called Intrinsic which will focus on building software for industrial robots. The subsidiary will be one of Alphabet’s “other...
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