Uber's first self-driving fleet, supervised by humans in the driver's seat, arrives in Pittsburgh this month with free trips for the time being
Near the end of 2014, Uber co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick flew to Pittsburgh on a mission: to hire dozens of the world's experts in autonomous vehicles.
T-Mobile launches $70 plan with “unlimited” high-speed data on September 6; HD video access costs $25 extra
T-Mobile will shift to a single wireless plan offering unlimited data — a surprise move that the company's CEO, John Legere, says he doesn't believe rivals Verizon and AT&T will be able to match.
Cisco announces it will eliminate 5,500 jobs, or 7% of its workforce, beginning this quarter, and reports quarterly revenue of $12.6B, up 2% YoY
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today reported fourth quarter and fiscal year results for the period ended July 30, 2016.
Cisco And Fortinet Confirm Flaws Exposed By Self-Proclaimed NSA Hackers
American firewall companies Cisco and Fortinet have issued warnings and fixes for bugs exposed by the Shadow Brokers, who claimed this weekend to have breached the Equation Group, believed to be an NS...
AMD says Zen CPU will outperform Intel Broadwell-E, delays release to 2017
Proper SMT, faster caches, 40% higher IPC. Does AMD have a monster on its hands? — AMD's new Zen CPU architecture has been officially delayed until “early 2017.” The first Zen chips, which will be...
Verizon has offered to preinstall marketers' apps on subscribers' Android phones for $1-2 per device, according to ad agency execs
Unique Program Guaranteed Downloads, Agency Execs Say — Forget bloatware. Brandware may be the next extraneous app software coming to Verizon customers' smartphones.
Facebook is building its own Steam-style desktop gaming platform with Unity
Facebook may try to compete with Steam, or at least win back revenue lost when casual gaming shifted to mobile. Today Facebook formally announced it's working with game engine Unity to build a dedica...
Uber acquires self-driving truck startup Otto; report says if targets are met, the deal would be worth around $680M
Uber is reportedly paying more than $680 million to buy a self-driving truck startup launched earlier this year by a team of ex-Googlers in San Francisco.
Oracle asks for a new trial, claims Google failed to disclose Android app support for Chrome OS was coming when arguing why Android didn't harm Java SE market
Oracle is definitely not mad about losing in Oracle v. Google (again). The multibillion dollar corporation is definitely …
Kobo launches 7.8" waterproof Aura One e-reader for $229, with a colored backlight for better nighttime reading
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Tencent beats Q2 estimates with net profit up 47% to $1.61B YoY, revenue up 52% to $5.35B, and mobile gaming revenue doubling to $1.4B
Operator of WeChat messaging app posts 47% net profit increase in latest quarter — HONG KONG— Tencent Holdings Ltd. reported a better-than-expected 47% rise …
Instagram starts showing US users personalized video suggestions of live events in the Explore tab
another Snapchat clone? Tim Hardwick / MacRumors : Instagram Apes Snapchat Again With New ‘Events’ Channel Rachel Ranosa / Tech Times : Instagram Unveils ‘Event Channel’ To Curate Videos Of Concerts A...
Intel making 10 nanometer ARM-based chips could lead to deals with Apple and others but problems like high price, scheduling setbacks for 10 nm process remain
Intel announced on Tuesday that it had snagged a leading phone maker as one of the first customers for its new service …
Intel unveils next-gen Xeon Phi chips for deep learning; Nvidia says Intel used old benchmarks in marketing; Xeon Phi chips seem to compete on price regardless
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Amazon is experimenting with tech teams comprised entirely of part-time employees with full benefits in an effort to shed perceptions of a harsh company culture
A new pilot program inside Amazon is creating technical teams consisting entirely of part-time employees — including managers …
Google Cloud Platform releases three enterprise cloud database services from beta: Cloud SQL, Cloud Bigtable, and Cloud Datastore
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Snapchat commits to creating 396 new jobs in NYC over the next five years for up to $5M in tax breaks
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