Lyft is beginning its self-driving car pilot with self-driving car company nuTonomy in Boston as it looks to ramp up its self-driving efforts, and is now matching its riders with self-driving vehicles in parts of Boston, nuTonomy said today. Lyft announced its partnership with nuTonomy in June this year, indicating that the pilots would begin in the coming months. Read More
Source: TechCrunch
We love our fur babies in Silicon Valley, and there’s plenty of tech to support them, feed them and keep them occupied while we’re away. We could give you a pet gift guide full of these tech gadgets, as we’ve done in the past. But some of what’s out there is just downright ridiculous… and because we all need a laugh, that’s our focus this year. Read More
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Sonos and Ikea just announced a new collaboration to “create future home sound experiences”. The companies say they want to make it easier to play music anywhere in the home – which makes sense, since Sonos’ main benefit is how easy their software makes it to set up and manage a system of speakers throughout your home. “Together with Sonos we want to democratize… Read More
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Brave, the blockchain-based browser initiative that raised $35 million in an ICO earlier this year, is making its first major move to build an ecosystem that rewards publishers in a new kind of way. One of the selling points of Brave is that it uses its token (BAT, Basic Attention Token) to disrupt the current financial norms of online publishing. The company wants to reward users for browsing… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
You’ll get 30 digital tokens that the ad-blocking browser sends to website publishers and YouTube stars who can convert them into cash.
Source: CNET
Nicolas Polli’s photographic archive tells the story of a remarkable space mission that never happened.
Source: Wired
Always On, a livestream of electronic music from female, transgender, and non-binary artists, will be running for the next two days.
Source: Wired
The Swiss car design house is readying this inventive “snap together” modular autonomous car for Las Vegas.
Source: CNET
As part of its move away from consumer gear towards professional cinema hardware, Lytro has killed off the site that once hosted “living pictures,” still photos taken with its cameras that could be refocused after the fact. This will turn a handful of those pictures, where they had been embedded on the web over the past few years, into empty frames. Read More
Source: TechCrunch
The partnership aims to make it “easier for people to play any song, anywhere in the home.”
Source: CNET