Jan 7, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence, Business
People could soon talk to dead family members thanks to an artificial intelligence ‘ghostbot’. Microsoft has applied for a patent for an app that could digitally reincarnate the deceased by using images, voice data, social media posts, electronic...
Dec 10, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Business, Testing
Cruise, a majority-owned subsidiary of General Motors, has started testing self-driving vehicles without driver monitors in San Francisco, the company said Wednesday. The company plans to begin testing a handful of vehicles, followed by a “very methodical and...
Dec 10, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Business, Rideshare
Uber has officially sold its autonomous car division to startup Aurora. Now, the private transport platform has reached an agreement for Joby Aviation to acquire Uber Elevate, its fleet of flying taxis. After years of trying to get their air taxi business off the...
Dec 10, 2020 | Business, Electric Vehicles, Hybrids
Hybrid cars are seeing a quiet resurgence as the boom in electric vehicles spurs automakers to give the older, cheaper technology a second look. This year has been an extraordinary one for electric-car manufacturers. Investors have embraced makers of pure-electric...
Dec 10, 2020 | Batteries, Business, Electric Vehicles
An electric vehicle battery startup backed by Bill Gates and Volkswagen is claiming a major breakthrough on a technology that it says could power the next generation of clean cars and make them as widely attractive to drivers as gas vehicles — though some experts...
Dec 3, 2020 | Business, Detroit, Electric Vehicles
In a nearly hour-long interview on the Freakonomics Radio podcast, General Motors CEO Mary Barra talks about the automaker’s electric vehicle strategy and President Donald Trump, among many other topics. One of the main subjects is GM’s...
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