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Original Source: http://bit.ly/2Mh6CHg VENTURE July Sets A Record For Number Of $100M+ Venture Capital Rounds Jason D. Rowley 18 hours ago Jason D. Rowleyjason_rowley In July 2018, the tech sector’s leisure class—venture capitalists—kicked investments into overdrive, at least when it comes to financing supergiant venture rounds of $100 million or more (in native or as-converted USDRead more

Original Source: http://fortune.com/2018/03/13/self-driving-delivery-vehicles-pizza/ By BLOOMBERG March 13, 2018 In the wait for self-driving technology, cell-phone toting tech bros may have to cede their spot in line to pizzas, Craigslist couches and the mounting ephemera of e-commerce. The future—at least in the near-term—will not only be driverless, but sans passenger as well. The early conversations around driverless carsRead more

Original Source: http://cnb.cx/2ysQMGo A Senate panel on Wednesday unanimously gave the green light to a bill aimed at speeding the use of self-driving cars without human controls. After unanimous approval by the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, the full Senate must take up the bill. The measure is the first significant federal legislation addressing self-driving cars.Read more

Original Source: https://bloom.bg/2xUCkT6 Bloomberg News September 9, 2017, 4:54 AM PDT September 10, 2017, 10:01 AM PDT Regulators working on timetable for the ban, official says China joins U.K., France to phase out combustion-engine cars China will set a deadline for automakers to end sales of fossil-fuel-powered vehicles, becoming the biggest market to do so in aRead more

Original Source: http://bit.ly/2wENTyk 09/04/2017 | By Netmanias (tech@netmanias.com)   SK Telecom today announced that it, together with Nokia, has successfully reduced latency between the handset and base station to 2 ms over its LTE network.   With the successful demonstration of a round-trip latency of 2 ms, SK Telecom moves one step closer to realizing 5G *.   * ITURead more

Original Source: http://detne.ws/2wqXkBg Ian Thibodeau, The Detroit NewsPublished 12:01 a.m. ET Aug. 29, 2017 | Updated 11:57 a.m. ET Aug. 29, 2017 The automaker and the pizza company are partnering to make driverless delivery an option in the future. But will people want it? (Photo: Max Ortiz / The Detroit News) Ann Arbor — Domino’s Pizza wants toRead more

Original Source: http://bit.ly/2ix2kkv The boring machine will dig 44 feet underground outside SpaceX headquarters by Sean O’Kane@sokane1  Aug 24, 2017, 6:10pm EDT The City Council in Hawthorne, California voted four to one last night in favor of a plan from Elon Musk’s Boring Company to dig a two-mile-long underground test tunnel. The Boring Company, which operates from SpaceX’s headquarters inRead more

Original Source: http://bit.ly/2utuluZ The App That Lets You Hire Party Guests BY HADLEY TOMICKI · AUGUST 08, 2017 Surkus is a new app that allows you to hire people to fill a room. The idea is that you’ve got a party or event and want it to be attended with guests of a certain type. So Surkus allows you toRead more

Original Source: http://nyti.ms/2ut2lYj By BEN WIDDICOMBE AUG. 4, 2017 When the vibrating yoga pants were switched on, the party perked up considerably. “Oh, I like this,” said Briana Siaca, facing the floor in a downward dog pose, as electronic sensors pulsed along her legs. Ms. Siaca, 23, a two-time Miss New York runner-up with more thanRead more

Original Source: http://intel.ly/2sApRVA Study Estimates the Value of Goods and Services in the Early Years of the ‘Passenger Economy’ Will Be More Than Twice the Size of the ‘Sharing Economy’ » Click to view full infographic NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Intel predicts a new “Passenger Economy” will emerge to support the idle time when drivers become riders TheRead more