Category: <span>Tech News</span>

Amazon’s self-driving vehicle company, Zoox, is taking the wraps off of its first robotaxi. Zoox on Monday debuted an electric, fully driverless vehicle that’s built for ride hailing. It’s a “carriage-style” car, which means that passengers face each other and there’s no space for a driver or passenger seat, since there’s no steering wheel. It has space...

Facebook is working on a tool that will automatically read news articles for users and generate brief summaries, BuzzFeed reports. The feature was announced during an end-of-year company all-hands meeting, the report said. Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer presented the tool, which will be called “TLDR” (Too Long Didn’t Read, an acronym commonly used online), the publication...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are podcasters now. Spotify (SPOT) announced on Tuesday an exclusive partnership with Archewell Audio, a new, audio-first production company founded by The Duke and Duchess of Sussex. The deal allows the couple to grow their streaming and media footprint. It’s their latest investment since they announced in January that they were stepping back from...

Reddit has acquired short-video app Dubsmash, entering a crowded market dominated by Chinese-owned firm TikTok. Financial terms of the deal — which is based on a combination of cash and stock — were not disclosed. The U.S. social media firm is mostly known for its online forums where users post text, links and media related...

Multiple Google services and websites including YouTube, Gmail, Google Assistant, and Google Docs were down for around an hour on Monday morning after being hit with a widespread outage. Google acknowledged the issues with Gmail, affecting both its business and personal services, at 6:55AM ET, and said the problem was fixed for the “vast majority” of users...

eNCA is on the verge of taking news coverage to new technological heights with its innovative use of one of the largest video walls in Africa and also with the launch of Arti, an augmented reality (AR) data reporting system. ews broadcasting technologies driven by artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR) are being introduced...

The air taxi business is at least a couple of years from taking off, but it’s already seeing consolidation among start-ups. California-based Joby Aviation, which is developing all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, is acquiring Uber Elevate, the aerial ride-hailing division of Uber. The move will allow Joby to use Uber’s app to offer air taxi...

Tesla is cashing in on the phenomenal rise of its stock price, announcing plans to sell additional shares worth up to $5 billion.The company said the sales will take place “from time to time” at market prices.Tesla has taken advantage of its soaring stock price by selling additional shares before. It frequently did so in...

Top Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of TF International Securities said in a note Wednesday that Apple is building two redesigned MacBook Pros set to launch in 2021 and a new “more affordable” MacBook Air due to launch in 2022. Apple’s MacBooks are overdue for a redesign. It launched a new 13-inch MacBook Pro and MacBook Air in November with...

Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency is readying to launch as early as January, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing three unidentified people involved in the project. The Geneva-based Libra Association that will issue and govern Libra plans to launch a single digital coin backed by the dollar, the FT said, citing one of the people. The...