Aurora, the buzzy self-driving car startup, has become the first company officially authorized by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to test its vehicles on public roads. Aurora has been testing its autonomous vehicles on public streets in Pittsburgh since late 2017. And other companies such as Argo AI also test autonomous vehicles there. So receiving […]
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China’s Byton is sending its electric SUV prototypes to the U.S.
Byton, the new China-based automaker founded by former BMW and Infiniti executives, has produced the first 10 prototypes of its tech-centric all-electric SUV and some of them will be in the U.S. before the end of the year, company president and co-founder Daniel Kirchert told TechCrunch. Byton plans to produce another 100 prototypes of the SUV, […]
View More China’s Byton is sending its electric SUV prototypes to the U.S.Scientists thought ‘Steve’ was a new aurora. Turns out it isn’t.
Named “Steve,” the swathes of purple light filling skies over Regina, Canada, spurred plenty of intrigue when discovered by citizen scientists.
The lights, the likes of which locals had never seen before, were understood by scientists to be a new aur…
Embark CEO says autonomous driving is the only way we’ll get to zero fatalities
Autonomous systems are coming. In fact, they’re already here, thanks to Alphabet’s Waymo, Uber and smaller startups like Aurora, Embark Trucks and Voyage. Although there have a been a couple of fatal crashes involving autonomous software, the consensus seems to be that self-driving is still the way to go. Last year, 37,150 people died in […]
View More Embark CEO says autonomous driving is the only way we’ll get to zero fatalitiesThis could be the first space hotel and people are already pre-booking the $9.5 million experience
Orion Span is planning to launch a luxury space hotel in 2022. Although this timescale sounds a bit unrealistic, the company mentions that 4 months worth of bookings were sold out in just 3 days after they started accepting reservations.
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Aurora hires SpaceX’s Jinnah Hosein, opens SF and Pittsburgh offices
Self-driving technology company Aurora has made some key moves on its leadership team and overall company growth: It’s bringing on SpaceX’s now former head of software engineering, Jinnah Hosein, to lead its own software engineering team in a VP role. The autonomous software provider is also opening up two new offices, including one in San […]
View More Aurora hires SpaceX’s Jinnah Hosein, opens SF and Pittsburgh officesCitizen scientists discovered a strange glow in the sky, and then named it Steve
Sky watchers discovered a glowing purple, aurora-like phenomenon. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center confirmed the discovery, caused by fast-moving ions, and officially named it STEVE. Really. Read more…More about Space, Nasa, Science, Mashable Vide…
View More Citizen scientists discovered a strange glow in the sky, and then named it SteveWant to spot ‘Steve’ the aurora? Here’s how to do it
There’s a never-before-studied aurora gracing night skies around the world, and NASA wants you to try to spot it.
The newfound aurora, named Steve (short for Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement), looks like a purple light with some green fea…
‘Steve’ is the name of a new kind of aurora, discovered thanks to citizen scientists
“Steve” may be ordinary as it comes with aurora names, but one called exactly that certainly has an extraordinary story.
The streaks of purple light which appeared in the sky over Regina, Canada, were the source of curiosity for locals who hadn’t see…
Aurora raises $90M Series A, adds Reid Hoffman and Mike Volpi to its board
Self-driving car startup Aurora has raised $90 million in a Series A round, with participation from both Greylock Partners and Index Ventures. The new funding adds to its available cash and will make it possible for the young startup to scale mor…
View More Aurora raises $90M Series A, adds Reid Hoffman and Mike Volpi to its boardAurora will power Byton EV’s autonomous driving features
Aurora, the self-driving startup founded by Google self-driving car project alum Chris Urmson, along with Tesla Autopilot developer Sterling Anderson, CMU robotics expert and Uber vet Drew Bagnell, and a team of industry experts, will be making the autonomous smarts for Byton’s forthcoming electric vehicle. Byton, a startup that had a splashy debut at CES earlier this year.… Read More
Self-driving startup Aurora will work with Nvidia on autonomous driving
Relative autonomous driving industry newcomer Aurora has been revealing a lot of early traction lately, and now we know that it’s also working with GPU-maker Nvidia. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed that his company will be supplying Aurora with the tech underlying their compute platform.
Aurora is building self-driving systems for both Volkswagen and Hyundai, the startup revealed last week. Read More