nuTonomy, the developer of driverless taxi in Singapore, seeks for feedback ahead of the commercial launch. Christophe Van Der Perre reports that the street of Singapore witnessed the “first driverless taxi” that was launched for a “limited public trial”. The developer nuTonomy requested some...

DHL goes electric in Germany. The delivery agent is going to re-equip its fleet of commercial vehicles with help of a startup based at a technical university. Car industry is clearly not a core business of the German post office. However, trucks are one of the most important assets of any logistics...

Two major auto manufacturer Mobileye and Delphi have agreed to join forces to create a unified system of unmanned driving. The companies expect that all the automakers will be able to implement their system on the machines already in 2019. The world's largest manufacturer of automotive parts...

Tethered drone is the answer to be in the sky forever. Matthew Stock reports about an unmanned aircraft that is theoretically capable of flying forever. The drone remains connected to a “mobile ground station via a tether”, this way the airborne drone is fed with drip power.   Likewise, the...

When a stock market trader decides to put a bet on a stock, does he do that with his gut feeling or rationally evaluate the probabilities that the price will rise before you pull the trigger on a trade?   This is one question that has tormented analysts over the years.   One might be...

A crack down on "robocalls," automated, prerecorded phone calls that regulators have labeled a "scourge" in the U.S. is to be initiated as more than 30 major technology and communication companies said on Friday they are joining the U.S. government for the crackdown.   Among members of the...

IBM’s engineers and Simon hope to develop an app that would make blind runners self-sufficient. Simon Wheatcroft is a blind athlete who collaborated with IBM to develop an app for smart-phones, eAscot, which helped him to complete his “ultra-marathons” all over the world without any assistance....

Helping the team that wrote the winning code to make a potential earning of a $2 million prize is a software program dubbed "Mayhem". This program which helps to teach computers to launch and defend against cyber attacks, was poised to win the final round of a three-year contest.   After a...

Farm irrigation equipment, donation boxes and oysters, connected by a technology called LoRa, are being seen as an alternative to the uses of the future of communications where mobile networks push bandwidth-heavy video to phones and pull data from self-driving cars.   Connecting devices...