Uber is doubling down on efforts to use autonomous vehicles for its delivery service.
The company announced today a 10-year partnership with Nuro, an autonomous electric vehicle maker. Uber Eats and Nuro will launch the delivery offering this fall in Mountain View, California, and Houston, Texas, with plans to later expand its service to the greater Bay Area.
Uber has been turning to partnerships to cement its presence in the autonomous
The novel coronavirus is an airborne respiratory pathogen that infects us through our mouths, throats, and noses. So it makes sense that a key way to prevent the coronavirus from wreaking true havoc inside of us is to stop its advance at the front gate.
That’s exactly why this week’s news that China had authorized
Albedo has announced a $48 million Series A raise, in a round co-led by Bill Gates-founded Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Silicon Valley-based Shield Capital. The Austin- and Denver-based satellite startup has now raised $58 million less than two years since its founding. Complementing Albedo’s big round is a padded out cap table.
The startup is a Y Combinator alum, graduating from the accelerator’s Winter 2021 (W21) batch. New backers announced today include Repub
With recent advances in artificial intelligence and robotics technology, there is growing interest in developing and marketing household robots capable of handling a variety of domestic chores.
Tesla is building a humanoid robot, which, according to CEO Elon Musk, could be used for cooking meals and helping elderly people. Amazon recently
John Gaeta has already made his mark on pop culture once. As the visual effects supervisor on The Matrix, he’s the person who created bullet time
Today, I drove an hour down to Cupertino to watch a movie. It was actually a series of shorts about iPhones, Apple Watches, and AirPods, and it played in a cinema called the Steve Jobs Theater. It was a good movie. Better than expected.
An Apple event is always a spectacle, and Wednesday’s “Far Out” launch was no exception. There were new iPhones, new watches, new Airpods—and car crashes, lots and lots of car crashes. The company laid out its latest lineup of products, which it hopes will be in high demand as the holidays draw near.
But between the introductions, there were a few themes Apple hit on to underscore the fea
Bose says its new earbuds cancel out the noise of the outside world better than any other consumer headphone, including over-the-ear models.
The earphones, called the QuietComfort Earbuds II, are a third smaller than their predecessor, each one weighing in at just a third of an ounce.
The Earbud
Match Group and its subsidiary Tinder launched an advocacy campaign on Tuesday in support of the Respect for Marriage Act, which would require the federal government to recognize the
In the realm of search engines, there’s a holy grail. Think human intelligence, as if you were telling your question to a friend—but the friend exists through the computer screen and in the digital ether, a pansophical internet librarian who will rummage through virtual bookshelves to retrieve the answers you seek.
There’s no such librarian in today’s world. To use modern search engines, we often pretend the machine is dumber than it is smart: We digest quer