PHOENIX, Ariz. (Reuters) – The governor of Arizona on Monday suspended Uber’s ability to test self-driving cars on public roads in the state following a fatal crash last week that killed a 49-year-old pedestrian. FILE PHOTO – Doug Ducey smiles… Continue Reading
The past week’s series of revelations about the misuse of Facebook user data by the election firm Cambridge Analytica has led to widespread calls for users to delete their accounts. Prominent supporters of deleting Facebook now include WhatsApp co-founder Brian… Continue Reading
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – The head of Alphabet Inc’s autonomous driving unit, Waymo, said on Saturday that the company’s technology would have safely handled the situation confronting an Uber self-driving vehicle last week when it struck a pedestrian, killing her.… Continue Reading
Back in 2011, when Guillermo del Toro was first starting to hype his forthcoming movie Pacific Rim, he gleefully described it as “giant fucking monsters against giant fucking robots.” That’s how he always talked about it, with childlike glee. But… Continue Reading
LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif.—For decades, innovators have been holding a candle for the potential of Big Data to one day revolutionize health care. Entrepreneurs have developed ways for people to track their own biological metrics, and for companies to use advances… Continue Reading
One of the largest and most significant assets on the books of General Electric (NYSE:GE) is the company’s Healthcare segment. The operation was founded in 1994, but its roots trace back to the late 1800s under the name Victor Electric… Continue Reading
We’ve seen it over and over recently, with passengers on United Airlines, Southwest Airlines, Delta Airlines, and now American Airlines. They witness or endure something disturbing: a dog placed in an overhead bin; a toddler and family kicked off a flight. Then, through… Continue Reading
You may expect your life to magically change after a guest blog post or a few minutes on local TV news. Wrong! Public relations efforts can help build awareness of and credibility for your brand, yourself, your product, or service. PR… Continue Reading
After the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, in February, the top trending video on YouTube wasn’t a news clip about the tragedy but a conspiracy theory video suggesting survivor David Hogg was an actor. The video garnered 200,000 views before… Continue Reading
(Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase & Co has made a strategic investment in Mosaic Smart Data, a company that has developed technology to help banks make their fixed-income sales and trading businesses more profitable. A view of the exterior of the… Continue Reading
Search for a political topic on YouTube, and you’re likely to be nudged to watch increasingly extreme, misleading, or outright false content on that topic. If your interest is in left-wing topics, the site’s algorithm will point you towards corresponding… Continue Reading
Shares of semiconductor company Broadcom surged following a report on Friday that Intel is considering an acquisition. Broadcom’s stock rose 4% in after-hours trading on Friday to $264.21 after the Wall Street Journal reported of Intel’s interest in acquiring Broadcom,… Continue Reading
Years ago, the notion of hybrid cloud bursting was compelling: How cool is it to have workloads on both private and public clouds and be able to run those workloads on the private cloud during normal operations and burst to… Continue Reading
Google has used its artificial intelligence to automatically index millions of photographs from the defunct Life Magazine. The search giant, which debuted a website for the photo project on Wednesday, said it was able to categorize over 4 million iconic… Continue Reading
(Reuters) – Apple Inc (AAPL.O) said on Wednesday that it had found violations of its labor and environmental policies for suppliers, such as falsifying work hours data, as it expanded the scope of its annual audit of conditions of workers… Continue Reading
Russian trolls used Reddit to spread propaganda in prelude to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Reddit said on Monday. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said in a post on Reddit that the company removed a “few hundred accounts” from its social… Continue Reading
Video: Is open-source software really free? Remember when Oracle bought Sun? The one thing that seemed to make sense about this deal was Oracle’s acquisition of Java. Almost 10 years later, Oracle gave up on Java Enterprise Edition (JEE), aka… Continue Reading
Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. Many businesses are being drawn into socio-politics. Some have been there for a while but always wanting to operate behind the scenes.… Continue Reading
Much of driving a Porsche, or any sports car, is about confidence—the reassurance that you’re sitting in a work of art that can also fling you away from a red light, putting the proletariat in their place: the rearview mirror.… Continue Reading
(Reuters) – Music streaming service Spotify on Wednesday filed for a direct listing of its shares, laying out financial data for the first time that cheered some analysts but led others to question how it could turn a profit from… Continue Reading