Swedish automaker Volvo Cars has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with DiDi Autonomous Driving, the self-driving technology arm of popular ride hailing app DiDi Chuxing to test their self-driving cars test fleet, both companies announced on Monday. According to a joint statement, Volvo Cars will provide DiDi with XC90 cars equipped with necessary backup systems […]
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Online migration has been at the center of the worldwide news cycle since the COVID-19 outbreak, with companies and institutions from almost every walk of life taking their business to the digital realm. The societal impact of technology’s rapid acceleration caused by the pandemic will raise and answer many questions regarding how humans will choose […]
Charles “Chuck” Geschke — the co-founder of the major software company Adobe Inc. who helped develop Portable Document Format technology, or PDFs — died at age 81. Geschke, who lived in the San Francisco Bay Area suburb of Los Altos, died Friday, the company said. “This is a huge loss for the entire Adobe community […]
Google broke Australian law by misleading users about personal location data collected through Android mobile devices, a judge found Friday. The Federal Court decision was a partial win for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, the nation’s fair trade watchdog, which has been prosecuting Google for broader alleged breaches of consumer law since October 2019. […]
H.S. Panno, an independent contractor living in a spacious two-story penthouse in New Delhi, had his doubts when he bought his first electric car in September. So far, he’s pleased with his savings on gas and maintenance, which are down by more than half, but disappointed with the practical limitations of driving his Nexon XZ+. […]
The concept of flying cars has triggered humanity’s fancy for decades, appearing in all kinds of sci-fi and futuristic forms of entertainment from the silver screen to video games. With Marty McFly’s prediction of having flying cars by 2015 shattered, it looks as though the dream of “drive and fly” is in the early stages […]
A global epidemic of digital extortion known as ransomware is crippling local governments, hospitals, school districts and businesses by scrambling their data files until they pay up. Law enforcement has been largely powerless to stop it. One big reason: Ransomware rackets are dominated by Russian-speaking cybercriminals who are shielded — and sometimes employed — by […]
The China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair) opened its 129th session on Wednesday, and what is its third digital exhibition. 260 thousand exhibitors present a record-breaking 2.7 million products across 16 categories, 82 thousand of which will be new products. Exhibitors will showcase their products through cutting-edge digital presentations such as pictures, videos, 3D […]
The Google Earth app is adding a new video feature that draws upon nearly four decades of satellite imagery to vividly illustrate how climate change has affected glaciers, beaches, forests and other places around the world. The tool unveiled Thursday is rolling out in what is being billed as the biggest update to Google Earth […]
The Treasury Department on Thursday slapped six Russian technology companies with sanctions for supporting Kremlin intelligence agencies engaged in “dangerous and disruptive cyber attacks.” But only one of them stands out for its international footprint and partnerships with such IT heavyweights as Microsoft and IBM. That company, Positive Technologies, claims more than 2,000 customers in […]