Chinese search giant Baidu plans to start self-driving cars tests on roads in the United States as early as next month. The announcement comes after a few years of development at its Chinese headquarters and Silicon Valley tech lab. Baidu’s chief scientist Andrew Ng revealed the news to the Wall...
Swedish automotive manufacturer Volvo plans to conduct the largest self-driving experiment in China this year, which will add 100 autonomous cars onto roads in China. Volvo has already shown off its self-driving prototype at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2016. It previewed Netflix in the car, and announced a partnership...
The Internet of Things (IoT) revolution will bring a myriad of improvements to all industrial sectors, but two areas already seeing the advantages of IoT are transport and logistics. In the past ten years, companies have lowered the amount of available resources for transport and logistics, while forcing the teams...
Toyota has announced plans to open a new division called Toyota Connected in the United States, focused on building new car technology and humanizing technology added into cars. The new division will be located in Plano, Texas, and will employ around 100 people. Toyota has purchased a 20,000 square foot...
French wireless communications firm Sigfox has announced a collaboration with Microsoft’s Azure Internet of Things (IoT) hub. The collaboration allows Sigfox customers to use Microsoft Azure IoT for real-time analytics and automation of operations, while also utilizing Sigfox’s low-power, wide area communications network (LPWAN) to make an IoT system affordable...
Automotive manufacturer Mitsubishi Electric plans to reverse-engineer missile targeting systems developed for the Japanese military for future self-driving systems. That’s according to an interview by Katsumi Adachi, senior chief engineer at Mitsubishi’s automotive equipment division, who said the car manufacturer wants to build systems to detect obstacles and avoid collisions...
Google has assured car dealers that the onset of self-driving cars is a positive, not a negative. Speaking at the J.D. Power Automotive Forum, John Krafcik, CEO of Google's self-driving car project, said self-driving cars will clock more hours than standard cars, which makes dealers more important than ever before. "Self...
INRIX has relaunched a completely redesigned version of its INRIX Traffic app that harnesses a network of over 275 million vehicles and other sensors to make your commute that much easier. Available worldwide today - in both iOS and Android flavors - INRIX Traffic learns your preferences to take the...
Developers love Australian enterprise software company Atlassian for its first and most popular product, JIRA, used across many applications being developed by teams around the world. It's a product that has grown beyond its developer focus, with Atlassian claiming that over a third of its users come from businesses units outside of software development,...
Last week, Dr. Hong, the President of Samsung SDS and the Head of its solution business, delivered a keynote at CES 2016 that focused on the Internet of Things (IoT) and how this can impact on our lives today and in the future. Samsung has an ever expanding range...
As Ricardo Reyes, Tesla's head of communications, told Wired:In other cars, all the systems work separately—there are different processors for different parts: the safety system here, the cruise control here. And that’s the evolution of building cars in stages, whereas our car has a central operating system, more like what...
Google surprised everyone Monday with fundamental changes to its organizational DNA, putting a new holding company, Alphabet, above a newly fashioned Google Inc. and other subsidiaries for its Google X “moonshots" lab and ventures arm. Days later, the world is still trying to make sense of it.As similarly dubbed businesses...
Here Maps is one of the best products to climb out of the wreckage of the Nokia that Microsoft left behind, and Audi, BMW and Daimler obviously agree: In an attempt to reduce their reliance on Google and Apple's maps, the German automobile firms have paid some €2.8 billion (or a little over...
Bimmer Clock (BMW Clock) The Bimmer clock or BMW Clock is a watch face that is designed to let your Samsung Gear S have a true BMW style. You are able to check/view battery status, used space status and a compass. In total there are 19 different backgrounds to...
On Saturday at the South By Southwest conference in Austin, Delphi made history by announcing the first coast-to-coast automated drive. Dubbed the Delphi Drive, the trip will start in San Francisco on March 22 and end in New York City a few days later. To make the drive possible, the company...
At Apple’s “Spring Forward” press event Monday, CEO Tim Cook confirmed retail availability and pricing for the company’s much-anticipated Apple Watch. On the low end, the cheapest device will be an Apple Watch Sport with a 38mm screen for $349—which is on the pricier side of the typical range for smartwatches...
With just days to go before we get to see the finished Apple Watch in all its wearable glory, the Web is awash with gossip and rumor—of varying plausibility—about the smartwatch and its imminent arrival.Bloomberg has news of a "secret lab" where app developers have been hunkered down getting software...
ReadWriteDrive is an ongoing series covering the future of transportation.Every year, cars become a bigger deal at the annual Consumer Electronics Show. Demonstration of self-driving and game-like dashboard wizardry—from the likes of Mercedes, Ford, Volkswagen and Audi—were inescapable in Las Vegas at the 2015 event earlier this month.You might logically...
ReadWriteDrive is an ongoing series covering the future of transportation.For all the talk of self-driving and connected cars, the simple task of using smartphone apps while driving remains frustrating as hell. The great promise of in-car electronics—one that allows you to safely talk on the phone, text, listen to tunes...
So long, Windows 7. After six years, Microsoft has started phasing out this version of its desktop operating system.Independent security analyst Graham Cluley points out that “mainstream support” for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 has just ended, according to this Microsoft webpage. However, if you bought a PC with this...
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