Innovation

Alphabet’s Waymo Raises $2.5 Billion FundingAlphabet’s Waymo Raises $2.5 Billion Funding

Alphabet’s Waymo Raises $2.5 Billion Funding

Fresh round of investment into self-driving division of Alphabet, to help grow Waymo and develop its autonomous driving tech

4 years ago
Sir Tim Berners-Lee To Auction Web Source Code As NFTSir Tim Berners-Lee To Auction Web Source Code As NFT

Sir Tim Berners-Lee To Auction Web Source Code As NFT

Sir Tim Berners-Lee is to auction off the original source code for World Wide Web as a NFT later this…

4 years ago
Passenger Bids $28 Million To Join Jeff Bezos On Blue Origin DebutPassenger Bids $28 Million To Join Jeff Bezos On Blue Origin Debut

Passenger Bids $28 Million To Join Jeff Bezos On Blue Origin Debut

Blue Origin announces winner of live auction to join Jeff Bezos and his brother on debut spaceflight next month

4 years ago
China Regions Order Bitcoin Mining ShutdownChina Regions Order Bitcoin Mining Shutdown

China Regions Order Bitcoin Mining Shutdown

Two of China's biggest cryptocurrency mining regions order mining operations to cease operations, even as China aims for blockchain leadership

4 years ago
Virgin Atlantic Works With Bristol Start-Up On ‘Flying Taxis’Virgin Atlantic Works With Bristol Start-Up On ‘Flying Taxis’

Virgin Atlantic Works With Bristol Start-Up On ‘Flying Taxis’

Virgin Atlantic works with Vertical Aerospace to explore 'flying taxi' network that would transport passengers from regional cities to major…

4 years ago
Chinese Ride-Hailing Giant Didi Chuxing Files For US IPOChinese Ride-Hailing Giant Didi Chuxing Files For US IPO

Chinese Ride-Hailing Giant Didi Chuxing Files For US IPO

World's second-biggest ride-hailing company Didi Chuxing files to go public in US, in what could be biggest Chinese US listing…

4 years ago
China’s Zhurong Rover Takes Selfie On Martian SurfaceChina’s Zhurong Rover Takes Selfie On Martian Surface

China’s Zhurong Rover Takes Selfie On Martian Surface

China's Mars rover, Zhurong, takes self-portrait as it explores Utopia Planitia region of Red Planet at same time as NASA's…

4 years ago

Facebook Smartwatch To Include Detachable Cameras – Report

Privacy worry or novel device? Facebook's upcoming smartwatch will reportedly include two detachable cameras and a heart rate monitor

4 years ago
US Senate Passes Bill To Counter China Tech ThreatUS Senate Passes Bill To Counter China Tech Threat

US Senate Passes Bill To Counter China Tech Threat

US Senate passes $250bn US Innovation and Competition Act that seeks to counter global influence of Chinese technology, and encourage…

4 years ago
Jeff Bezos And Brother Book Seat On Blue Origin Debut Space FlightJeff Bezos And Brother Book Seat On Blue Origin Debut Space Flight

Jeff Bezos And Brother Book Seat On Blue Origin Debut Space Flight

World's richest man, Jeff Bezos, and his brother Mark, are to fly up to outer space on Blue Origin's first…

4 years ago
Composable: The Future of IT Infrastructure?Composable: The Future of IT Infrastructure?

Composable: The Future of IT Infrastructure?

With composable infrastructure, IT can provision on-premises infrastructure just as quickly and painlessly as public cloud resources can be acquired…

4 years ago
US Plans Boost For Electric Vehicle Battery RecyclingUS Plans Boost For Electric Vehicle Battery Recycling

US Plans Boost For Electric Vehicle Battery Recycling

US administration reportedly planning to invest in more recycling to recover minerals and reduce demand for new copper, lithium, cobalt…

4 years ago
Microsoft’s £11bn AI Deal Approved By US RegulatorsMicrosoft’s £11bn AI Deal Approved By US Regulators

Microsoft’s £11bn AI Deal Approved By US Regulators

Microsoft's £11bn deal to buy artificial intelligence and speech recognition pioneer Nuance Communications passes review by US antitrust regulators

4 years ago
NHS Patient Database Plan To Proceed Despite ProtestsNHS Patient Database Plan To Proceed Despite Protests

NHS Patient Database Plan To Proceed Despite Protests

Government to activate centralised NHS Digital database of patient records next month in spite of criticism over lack of public…

4 years ago
Tesla Recalls Cars, And Confirms Battery Deal With AustraliaTesla Recalls Cars, And Confirms Battery Deal With Australia

Tesla Recalls Cars, And Confirms Battery Deal With Australia

Electric car giant recalls 6,000 cars in the United States, and confirms $1 billion a year battery material purchase from…

4 years ago

US Sets Next Stage For $250bn Bill To Counter China Tech

US Senate set to resume debate of $250bn US Innovation and Competition Act that looks to counter the global influence…

4 years ago

Bitcoin Heads For Worst Slide In Nearly 10 Years

Bitcoin loses nearly 40 percent of value this month over regulatory and environmental concerns, in worst performance since September 2011

4 years ago

Tesla In-Car Cameras To Monitor Driver Awareness

Tesla begins using cameras mounted above rear-view mirror to monitor driver awareness while Autopilot is active, but says data won't…

4 years ago

Police Raid Bitcoin Mining Operation

West Midland police raid industrial estate location stealing electricity on a drugs warrant, but location was mining cryptocurrency, not growing…

4 years ago

German Police Investigate Possible Arson At Tesla’s Gigafactory

Arson attack? German police investigate fire at construction site of Tesla Gigafactory, after far left group claims responsibility

4 years ago

Facebook Lifts Ban On ‘Man-Made Covid-19’ Posts

Posts about Coronavirus coming from Wuhan lab will no longer be labelled as 'fake news', as President Biden orders origin…

4 years ago

Tesla To Drop Radar And Use Camera-based Autopilot

Several new models from electric car maker will utilise a camera-only Autopilot going forward, as Tesla drops radar sensor

4 years ago

Huawei To Launch Harmony 2.0 Operating System Next Week

Huawei's Android replacement operating system for mobile handsets and devices, Harmony OS 2.0, will be officially launched next week

4 years ago

Musk Speaks Of Russia Plans In Chat With Students

Telsa and SpaceX chief Elon Musk speaks warmly of Russia's 'talent and energy' in chat with Russian students, says he…

4 years ago

Snap Acquires British AR Display Maker WaveOptics

Snapchat company buys WaveOptics, maker of displays for augmented-reality glasses, for more than $500m amidst increased competition in emerging field

4 years ago

Snap Offers AR Glasses To ‘Select Creators’

Snap moves cautiously into augmented reality field with AR glasses offered to select creators of Snapchat's popular 'Lens' effects

4 years ago

Google To Open Retail Store In New York

Good idea? Google retail store in New York’s Chelsea neighbourhood will sell Pixel phones, FitBit devices and Nest products

4 years ago

Google I/O: Android 12 Boasts Major Redesign

Google I/O: With few hardware (Pixel etc) announcements, Google confirms massive redesign for Android 12, including new look and feel

4 years ago

Twitter Drops Picture Cropping Tool Over Bias Concern

Twitter confirms it has abandoned a picture cropping algorithm after an indepth investigation confirmed racial and gender bias

4 years ago

Bitcoin Value Plummets Again To Pre-Tesla Levels

Digital currency demonstrates its volatility as it falls another 20 percent, removing all its gains after the Tesla stake announcement

4 years ago