Waymo is investing a lot of time and effort on building out the user experience of its self-driving vehicles, which includes both the external and internal user-facing features of its autonomous cars. This includes looking at everything from how …
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Taking a truly driverless ride in Waymo’s Chrysler Pacifica
Today was a first for me: I drove in a fully autonomous vehicle on roads without anyone behind the wheel. They weren’t public roads, but they did have intersections, other vehicles, pedestrian traffic, cyclists and more, and the car managed a fairly long route without any human intervention – and without any cause for concern on my part. I’ve done a lot of self-driving… Read More
Samsung posts another record profit thanks to its chips business
Samsung posted another record quarter, and it again has its components business to thank for more stellar results. The Korea tech giant shrugged off scandals, which include a jail sentence for its de factor leader and last year’s Note 7 saga, to record a 14.53 trillion won ($12.92 billion) profit for the recent Q3 2017 period. Revenue came in at 62.05 trillion won ($55.18 billion), up… Read More
Crunch Report | Square Announces the $999 ‘Professional’ Register
Square announces its new $999 professional Register, GameStop begins a rental subscription pass and Nintendo says Switch will beat the Wii U in sales. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
View More Crunch Report | Square Announces the $999 ‘Professional’ RegisterGoogle offers new findings on Russian disinformation across its products
Just a day before tech’s big Russia-focused Congressional hearings begin, Google is out with a new report on the Russian government’s efforts to interfere in the U.S. presidential election across its platforms.
“While we have found only limited activity on our services, we will continue to work to prevent all of it, because there is no amount of interference that is… Read More
Apple’s spat with Qualcomm may reportedly escalate to the hardware level
Apple and Qualcomm’s feud appears to be escalating further heading into the fourth quarter, as a new report by The Wall Street Journal this evening indicates Apple is designing iPhones and iPads that would not include Qualcomm’s components. Instead, Apple may opt to work with Intel and possibly MediaTek for its modem chips, according to the report. This would be another… Read More
Wonder Workshop raises $41M for its chatty robots that help kids learn to code
The Bay Area-based Wonder Workshop announced today that it has closed a $41 million Series C round of funding. The team has built a number of very cool little robots that kids can program on their mobile phone in a manner that helps them grasp at some computer science basics. Read More
Russian-backed content may have reached 126 million on Facebook
Facebook has reportedly upped its estimate of how much content was produced by Russian-backed actors during the election and how widely that content was seen. According to prepared remarks due to be presented tomorrow but acquired by The Wall Str…
View More Russian-backed content may have reached 126 million on FacebookNo, iPhones don’t have a special folder for your sexy pics
It’s understandable when things change as fast as they do these days that it takes a bit for our ideas of how things work to catch up to how they actually work. One misunderstanding worth clearing up is the suggestion that Apple (or Google, or whoever) is somewhere maintaining a special folder in which all your naughty pics are kept. You’re right to be suspicious, but that’s… Read More
Sprint shares fall 9% on reports of failed T-Mobile merger
Sprint-owner SoftBank Group may be getting cold feet when it comes to the proposed T-Mobile U.S. merger. Sprint shares fell 9 percent following a report from the Nikkei that Softbank might be backing off from a potential agreement; T-Mobile shares fell 5 percent. According to the report, SoftBank is expected to approach Deutsche Telekom, the owner of T-Mobile as soon as Tuesday… Read More
SpaceX launches 16th Falcon 9 in 2017, recovers first stage
SpaceX just successfully launched its 16th Falcon 9 rocket this year, for client KT SAT, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission is to deliver the company’s Koreasat-5A satellite, which will provide broadband communications services to KT SAT’s customers. As part of the launch, SpaceX also successfully recovered its Falcon 9 first stage, which landed aboard… Read More
Rothenberg Ventures founder Mike Rothenberg ordered to pay former CFO $166K in damages
Former Rothenberg Ventures CFO David Haase has won his case against the firm’s founder, Mike Rothenberg. The ruling came down in favor of Haase in the Superior Court of California last week. Rothenberg must now pay Haase $166,000 for expenses and losses incurred during his employment at the firm, plus legal fees for the suit and services related to an SEC investigation of the firm. Read More