Waymo and Uber, two former rivals, announced a new partnership to provide robotaxi services through Uber’s app in Phoenix later this year. The partnership aims to combine Waymo’s autonomous driving technology with the massive scale of Uber’s ridesharing and delivery networks. The Alphabet-owned company recently doubled its service area to 180 square miles in Phoenix,
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Lego has recently announced its new Technic NASA Mars Rover Perseverance set, which is an upgrade from its previous Mars Rover model. The new set is priced at $100 and is a tribute to the real Perseverance rover that landed on Mars in February 2021. New Features The new Lego Technic NASA Mars Rover Perseverance
On Sunday evening, Instagram experienced a major outage that lasted for a couple of hours. During the downtime, users were unable to refresh their feeds, and the website only displayed a blank page. According to the outage tracker DownDetector, there were over 175,000 reports of the issue at its peak. However, the issue was resolved
AT&T has filed concerns with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over T-Mobile and SpaceX’s proposal to connect mobile phones to Starlink satellites. In August 2022, T-Mobile and SpaceX announced their plans for a satellite-to-cellular service, which would allow mobile phone users to connect to SpaceX’s second-generation Starlink satellites to send text messages and MMS. AT&T’s
For those who are always on the move or don’t have access to a television, watching media on a tiny screen with poor speakers can be frustrating. However, Xgimi’s MoGo 2 Pro smart projector offers a solution to this problem. It is not only a portable projector that can stream videos through Android TV, but
Samsung has reportedly halted an internal review of whether it should replace Google with Bing on its in-house Internet Browser. The browser, which is pre-installed on Samsung phones, has long used Google as its default search engine. Last month, The New York Times reported that Google employees were “shocked” to learn that Samsung was considering
Apple, Samsung, and several major banks, including Bank of America, Citi, Deutsche Bank, Goldman, Wells Fargo, and JPMorgan, have limited the use of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot due to concerns over confidential data escaping. The fear of leaks is not unfounded, as a bug in ChatGPT revealed data from other users back in March.
Tesla, a car manufacturer known for its non-traditional advertising methods, might be jumping into the advertising business. Elon Musk announced in a shareholder meeting that Tesla could benefit from advertising by highlighting features that people may not know about. Musk, who recently acquired Twitter, believes that advertising could be a useful tool for growth. Potential
Elon Musk recently defended his right to post inflammatory statements on Twitter, even if it costs him money. During an interview on CNBC, Musk attempted to explain why he posts controversial tweets despite potential consequences. Musk referenced a scene from The Princess Bride to justify his attitude towards Twitter. In the scene, the character Inigo
Elon Musk’s controversial tweets defending spreading conspiracy theories about the recent mass shooting in Texas have sparked controversy. On May 9th, Bellingcat published a story that suggested the shooter held white supremacist and neo-Nazi views. Despite this, Musk took to Twitter to question the story’s validity. Musk’s Defense In a recent interview with CNBC, Musk