GM and its business partner Lyft announced the launch of a short-term car rental program, known as Express Drive. This rental program is exclusively for the Lyft platform, which will make automobiles available for Lyft users at cheaper ...
Tags: GM, Lyft, Rental program, Express Drive
The Google Cardboard-like goggles will be able to be assembled from the Happy Meal packaging, allowing kids or parents to place a mobile phone within to experience VR. Virtual Reality is continuing its play for the toy space as McDonald's ...
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Toyota announced that it has hired Jaybridge Robotics engineering team in order to strengthen its autonomous vehicle development effort. The 16 member Jaybridge engineering team will join Toyota Research Institute's (TRI) facility in ...
INRIX announced that it had acquired OpenCar, a U.S.-based automotive software and services provider. The OpenCar purchase extends the successful INRIX cloud platform into the dashboard with a broad portfolio of third-party content and ...
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Back to matters on the small screen, over 12.5 million viewers have tuned into the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series since its debut in 2012. As both the series and toy line are intrinsically linked, ToyNews looks at how this ...
Tags: Nickelodeon, Turties, TMNT, Interview, Animation
Google's DeepMind AI team has once again beaten the world's best Go player at his own game. Yesterday, the AlphaGo program beat South Korea's 9-dan Go player Lee Sedol in a live-streamed Go match. In the early hours of this morning, the ...
Virtual reality spans across a wide range of price points, but HTC’s only shown interest in the high-end so far. HTC is ‘open’ to the idea of a smartphone-based virtual reality headset. Speaking to TrustedReviews, Ryan ...
Bewildering tax structures begone; Facebook is finally going straight in the UK. Facebook has agreed to pay “millions of pounds more in tax” in the UK, according to a new report. The social network giant is said to be ...
GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a fabless developer of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control applications, says that its GS66508P gallium nitride power transistors were ...
Tags: GaN Systems, E-mode GaN FETs, Power electronics inverters
Ibotta, the mobile shopping app that pays consumers cash back on their everyday purchases, has announced a preferred partnership with Anheuser-Busch to offer beer shoppers cash-back rebates on Anheuser-Busch products through the Ibotta app. ...
Tags: Ibotta, Anheuser-Busch, Rebates, Mobile shopping app
One of Google’s self-driving car has recently crashed into an oncoming municipal bus in Mountain View, California. The incident actually took place on 14th of February and said to be the first accident involving its self driving ...
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Consumer Watchdog demands police investigation and release of technical data and video of the recent Google car crashing with a municipal bus in California. Google's account of the crash was posted on the California Department of Motor ...
Fiat Chrysler has unveiled a prototype of immersive car sales application at Mobile World Congress designed and built by Accenture Digital using Google's Project Tango developer kit. The prototype demonstrates how augmented reality can ...
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For Nevijo Mance, a vice-president of BMW China, buying a car would always be more than just looking for mobility. A car can also express your value, the group of people you think you belong to. And in the near future, a really good car ...
Tags: Driverless Cars, BMW China, dominant market
Google has announced that it will close down its Compare service by March 23, which offers auto insurance comparison in two markets, the US and the UK. With Google Compare services, one could compare various financial products such as ...
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