As a transportation reporter, I’ve been in a lot of cars using either autonomous or semi-automated Advanced Driver Assistance (ADAS) features, both on public and private roads, and yet I’d never been in an accident during a demonstration drive for any of these features before now. On Tuesday, January 30, myself and two TechCrunch video production staff were riding in a modified… Read More
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The Alphabet company is the latest to offer an “operating system” for the age of urban mobility.
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How a chaotic skunkworks race in the desert launched what’s poised to be a runaway global industry.
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Its influence goes far beyond other phones—the infrastructure that made the iPhone also enabled drones, smart-home gadgets, wearables, and self-driving cars.
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The world is getting warmer, the weather is getting worse. Here’s everything you need to know about what humans can do to stop wrecking the planet.
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It’s been less than a year since Instagram brought advertising to Instagram Stories — a format that its owner Facebook said in November has more than 300 million daily users. Since then, it’s been working to expand those capabilities, like incorporating ad formats that were already established elsewhere.
Today, Instagram is announcing plans to bring its Carousel Ads into Stories. Read More
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Autonomous vehicles will drive themselves. Until the world around them gets weird and they freeze up. Then friendly, overlord humans will step in.
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Two state-sponsored hacking operations are plaguing Pyeongchang, with murky motivations and no clear endgame.
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The Alexa voice platform and other deep learning projects have made Amazon an AI leader.
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Ten years ago, a Stanford lab created the formula to make technology addictive. Now, Silicon Valley is dealing with the consequences.
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