John Zimmer, co-founder and president, of Lyft made a bold prediction: private car ownership will most come to an end in major U.S. cities by 2025. He predicts that autonomous self-driving cars are leading the […]
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Oracle’s Larry Ellison Sets His Sights On Amazon
On Sunday, Larry Ellison, Oracle’s executive chairman, spoke at the company’s annual customer conference in San Francisco stating that he believes Amazon is Oracle’s number one computer in the cloud computing space. To date, Amazon […]
Google Adds Route Planning to Make Maps Better
Urban Engines recently announced that it will become part of Google Maps. It’s a bit of a welcome back type of deal as Urban Engines’ co-founder and CEO Shiva Shivakumar was an engineer at Google […]
Microsoft’s SwiftKey is the First Keyboard Powered by AI
SwiftKey will now be the first mobile keyboard app powered by neural networks. This means that the keyboard can more accurately predict what you’re about to type and correct. The popular mobile keyboard app was […]
Uber Drivers Face the Reality of Self-Driving Robot Cars
Have you ever hated your Uber driver? Perhaps you’ve had a bad experience with a driver who just could not drive and had major problems with directions. Well, in the future, you may no longer […]
Tesla to Update Autopilot Feature in Two Weeks
In May, a Tesla car was involved in a fatal accident. It was a Tesla Model S that collided with a truck in Florida. As a result, the carmaker’s semi-autonomous driving system has been under […]
Google Chrome to Warn Users of Non-secure Websites by January 2017
Google Chrome wants to help protect your passwords and credit card data from getting stolen. As a result, the Internet browser will start warning users on non-secure websites, by January of 2017. The news was […]
Google’s DeepMind AI Conveys Human-Like Speech
It’s just a matter of time before you won’t have the ability to tell the difference between speaking with a human or speaking with a robot. Or, perhaps that time is now. You see, Google’s […]
Alexa Will Soon Be Available on Amazon Fire Tablets
Amazon wants to get Alexa embedded into our lives. Whether it be within your sofa, your walls or your sink–it’s all about Alexa. For now, Amazon is settling for adding Alexa to its Fire tablets. […]
Android Pay Available for Chase Customers
Google says that Android pay should be running on the mobile web “soon.” This means that users can pay for their online shopping with stored credit cards. In addition, new API support was added in […]
Instagram Retiring Photo Maps Feature
Instagram is rolling back its photo apps feature citing research it is not widely used. Essentially, the feature showed the map of the world with your pictures pinned in areas you clicked. Some users have […]
Massive Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Recall Around Battery Explosions
Samsung has issued a Galaxy Note 7 recall that may cost the company around $1 billion. The reason is due to battery issues. It was just in August of year that the Galaxy Note 7 […]