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A safety driver who was riding in an autonomous Uber vehicle in Tempe, AZ, during its fatal 2018 crash has been charged with negligent homicide
The fatal accident occurred in Tempe, Arizona, in the United States, on March 18, 2018. During tests of Uber’s autonomous vehicle, back-up driver Rafaela Vasquez was watching The Voic...
Sep 16, 2020Facebook is testing Campus, a new project designed for college students to interact with peers at their school
Facebook is launching a new online space for college students to make it easier to connect with their classmates, share their notes and find campus updates.
Sep 16, 2020Cloud data warehousing company Snowflake raised $3.4B in its IPO
Snowflake, a company dedicated to offering data storage and cloud computing services, has raised $3.36 billion (?2.83 billion) after the price was set above the target range for the l...
Sep 16, 2020Former NSA director Keith Alexander joins Amazon
General Keith Alexander, former director of the National Security Agency, who oversaw the illegal mass espionage of Americans, was appointed to Amazon’s board of directors, attracting...
Sep 14, 2020Softbank Nearing a Deal To Sell ARM to NVIDIA
A cash and stock offering for ARM could be announced next week, sources say.
Sep 12, 2020Austin-based SigmaSense Raises $22M Series A
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Sep 11, 2020Elon Musk voiced his discontent on Twitter that OpenAI is exclusively licensing GPT-3 to Microsoft
As we previously covered, Microsoft announced that it was exclusively licensing GPT-3, a natural language AI-powered tool made by OpenAI.
Sep 10, 2020Qualcomm founder Irwin Jacobs Believes the US Cannot Compete With Huawei
The chips and processors and what brand each uses have been making news over the last year. Apple’s change in its Macs from Intel to ARM or, more dramatically, the drowning that the U...
Sep 07, 2020Reed Hastings on Netflix’s aggressive company culture, and more
Reed Hastings is the multi-billionaire behind Netflix, and was directly responsible for quashing Blockbuster’s entry into the modern entertainment market. They started with sending DV...
Sep 06, 2020Amazon Prohibits Foreign Seed Sales
The company Amazon has banned the sale in the United States of plants sent from abroad, after thousands of suspicious packages - many from China - arrived this summer in homes around ...
Sep 06, 2020