The creator of the Oculus Rift has apologised for tarnishing his brand’s reputation after he was outed as having funded a pro-Donald Trump propaganda group. Yesterday, a Daily Beast report revealed that Palmer Luckey had been ...
Ford is planning to mass produce driverless cars and introduce them in commercial operation in a ride-hailing service by 2021. To help speed up development of self-driving cars, Ford is investing in or collaborating with four startups on ...
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3D-Micromac AG of Chemnitz, Germany (which supplies laser micromachining systems and roll-to-roll laser systems for the photovoltaic, medical device and electronics markets) says that its microDICE laser micromachining system has been ...
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International technology company Continental is partnering with the US Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT)'s Smart City Challenge. Continental has initially pledged at least $1m to the winning city to provide improved safety and ...
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Kyma Technologies Inc of Raleigh, NC, USA (which provides crystalline nitride materials, crystal growth and fabrication equipment, and power switching electronics) and Quora Technology Inc have announced a strategic partnership in the ...
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Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe joined government officials, local business leaders, dozens of guests and more than 700 Team Carfax members to celebrate the completion of a major company expansion. With support from the Governor and the ...
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Mondelez International has announced that it would invest $15m to open a new global research, development & quality (RDQ) facility in Bielany Wroclawskie, Poland. The company has started the construction of the new site, which is expected ...
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True Zero has opened a hydrogen-fuel station in California, US. Snipping the ribbon in front of the True Zero dispenser at Conserv Fuel, 150 S. LaCumbre Road, included: Aeron Arlin-Genet, District Director & Air Pollution Control Officer, ...
Automaker Ford has invested $182.2m in technology firm Pivotal to speed up cloud-based software development. Headquartered in San Francisco, Pivotal is a cloud-based software company accelerating digital transformation for enterprises. ...
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Chinese technology firm LeEco has unveiled an autonomous electric vehicle (EV) concept car. Dubbed LeSEE, the concept has fully autonomous capabilities, including machine learning of facial, emotion, system, and path recognition. LeEco ...
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BAIC BJEV, a new energy automaker in China, has signed a strategic cooperation agreement for Sino-German Automotive Light Weighting Technology Joint R&D Center with Dresden University of Technology (TUD) in the Council Chamber of the state ...
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Naked Labs, a Silicon Valley fitness tech startup, will take a stab at the fitness tracking space in a way the industry has not yet seen. Instead of going wearable, the company designed a full-length body scanning mirror, a scale that ...
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Clarion, a consumer, commercial and marine mobile electronics maker, announced today that it is expanding its presence in Silicon Valley by moving to a new larger facility, complete with an indoor automotive electronics installation and ...
Tags: Clarion, Mobile electronic, Indoor automative electronics installation
DENSO International America Inc of Southfield, MI, USA (a subsidiary of Japan-based automotive technology, system and component supplier DENSO Corp) has invested in TriLumina Corp of Albuquerque, NM, USA, which manufactures and integrates ...
Acquisitions are an almost weekly occurrence in Silicon Valley, but Apple’s next scoop could be closer to home. Apple is said to be in “advanced talks” to buy Imagination Technologies, a UK-based chip design firm partly ...