John Zimmer, co-founder and president of Lyft, on the firm's self-driving vision: semi-autonomous cars on fixed routes by 2017, fully autonomous fleets by 2022
Expect to see semi-autonomous vehicles driving on fixed routes by 2017 in a subscription model.
iPhone 7, 7 Plus cameras don't produce as sharp or well exposed images as Samsung's Galaxy S7 line, but OIS, f/1.8 aperture, 2x optical zoom are major upgrades
While their resolution may have stayed the same, the 12-megapixel rear cameras in Apple's iPhone 7 and 7 Plus look offer a big improvement in picture quality.
Oracle launches new cloud computing and storage offerings to compete with AWS, as Larry Ellison says “Amazon's lead is over” at OpenWorld conference
Just as Larry Ellison said it would, Oracle has unveiled its second generation of cloud infrastructure for third-party developers …
Salesforce debuts Einstein AI platform that integrates with many Salesforce products like Sales Cloud and Marketing Cloud, and forms Salesforce Research group
Salesforce is announcing today the launch of its Einstein artificial intelligence (A.I.) platform that's implemented into several …
Wearable tech company Thalmic Labs raises $120 million from Intel, Amazon, and others
Thalmic Labs, the Canada-based wearable technology company, has announced a substantial $120 million (USD) Series B funding round led by Intel Capital, the Amazon Alexa Fund, and Fidelity Investments ...
Oracle buys Palerra, a cloud security startup co-founded by Oracle alums Rohit Gupta and Ganesh Kirti, which had raised $25M
Oracle is kicking off a big customer confab in San Francisco this week, and to mark the event, it's announced an acquisition. Oracle is buying Palerra …
Apple Pay on the web makes it much easier for websites to acquire new customers on mobile
Apple's not talking about it. Tim Cook and company are too busy trumpeting a new iPhone that's pretty much like the old iPhone (except there's—gasp—no headphone jack!).
Google Maps lead Jen Fitzpatrick on the advantages that rich geographic data gives Google in smart assistant race
Over the last several months, Google has mapped out a vision of its future where you'll have a smart assistant following you from phone to wrist to flatscreen and beyond …
Microsoft to close Skype's London office, making close to 400 employees redundant, as part of its global restructuring
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Google's tech incubator and think tank, Jigsaw, will soon release Conversation AI, a set of tools that use machine learning to combat online trolls
Around midnight one Saturday in January, Sarah Jeong was on her couch, browsing Twitter, when she spontaneously wrote what she now bitterly refers to as …
As Netflix asserts itself, studios and cable channels fret that the streaming company is headed for a near-monopoly in entertainment
The streaming service is spending $6 billion a year on content, choking basic cable and brusquely rattling the relationship business of the town as fears … Tweets: @janicemin , @drgmlatulippe , @johng...
How Salesforce Ventures, which has backed at least 31 startups this year, has seen success and avoided clashes with Salesforce CEO Benioff, an active investor
Cloud company's VC arm has backed at least 31 startups so far this year. VC chief sees boss Benioff as more collaborator than competitor.
Updated Nutanix IPO filing: revenue of $444.9M, up 84% YoY, billings of $637M, up 106% YoY, $165M operating loss, up 40% YoY, positive $3.6M operating cash flow
Nutanix, the $2 billion infrastructure company, has updated its regulatory filing on Monday, hinting that its stalled IPO could be back on track. Tweets: @gunnarwb Tweets: Gunnar Berger / @gunnarwb : ...
Mobileye says it broke ties with Tesla because Tesla was “pushing the envelope in terms of safety” with the design of its Autopilot driver-assistance system
HTC co-founder Peter Chou on his work with VR startup Futuretown, its new 5D Totalmotion modular VR simulator ride, and where VR headsets are headed
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Former lead World of Warcraft designer Rob Pardo raises $25M for his new startup, Bonfire Studios, from Andreessen Horowitz and Riot Games
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Netflix releases original short film “Meridian” as test footage for codec developers and even competitors to use, open sources tools for new video master format
Janko Roettgers / Variety : Tweets: @jank0 . Thanks: @jank0 . See also Mediagazer Tweets: Janko Roettgers / @jank0 : “It's a weird story wrapped up in a bunch of engineering requirements.” Meet Merid...
How Microsoft is retooling Minecraft with its Education Edition, giving free early access to 25K students and teachers and adding classroom management tools
Jeremy Hsu / Backchannel : Tweets: @backchnnl Tweets: Backchannel / @backchnnl : Minecraft is coming to the classroom, in Microsoft's bid to compete with Apple and Google in ed tech. http://backchann...
Frame.io, a cloud-based collaboration tool for video creators whose clients include Facebook and Snapchat, raises $10M Series A led by Accel
Today is an incredible day for Frame.io. Tweets: Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi : Congrats @Frame_io @emerywells and @_johntraver incl awesome H'wood investors and advisory board for video collab. http://...
Profile of Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat, an ex-Wall Street exec who is overseeing a fiscal tightening of the Other Bets divisions, prompting concern among Googlers
Leena Rao / Fortune : Tweets: @felixsalmon and @fortunemagazine . Thanks: @katiefehren Tweets: Felix Salmon / @felixsalmon : Wow. The CEO of GE's attitude to bearers of bad news who aren't named Ruth...
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