Uber tracked phones even after users deleted their app
A new report suggests that Uber monitored users’ phones even after they’d deleted the Uber app – and that Apple clashed with them over it when they found out.
The New York Times is reporting that the fall-out was so bad Apple boss Tim Cook threatened to remove the taxi app from its App Store; which would essentially have killed…
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Google’s Waymo is suing Uber – for stealing trade secrets and technology.
Waymo, owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, is taking legal action against Otto – the self-driving vehicle portion that it sold to Uber in 2016. Uber paid a whopping $700m for Otto, but Waymo now allege that former manager Anthony Levandowski took information from them when he left to…
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Whenever we read about, or hear about, people confidently presenting their vision of any kind of future trends, we, of course, need to…
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Apple’s Project Titan, which was launched two years ago to release an entirely autonomous car around 2020, has been scaled back substantially – and will now just focus on self-driving software rather than vehicles themselves.
Apple’s COO Jeff Williams said back in 2015: “The car is the ultimate mobile device, isn’t it?”. Yet now, Bloomberg have released an extensive report…
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A company called nuTonomy has launched the world’s first self-driving taxis in Singapore, and they’re already on the roads picking up passengers!
nuTonomy’s vehicles have been undergoing trials for almost a year, and last week launched in a business and residential district; albeit with limited pick-up and drop-off locations.
At present members of the public require an invitation from nuTonomy to…
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Ford have filed a patent for an “autonomous vehicle entertainment system” to be used in their upcoming driverless vehicles. In short, it’ll turn your windscreen into a 50inch (or bigger!) film screen, for you to watch while your hi-tech car drives you wherever it is you want to go.
The mock-up images that the company have included…
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In another big break-through for driverless vehicles following trials in Milton Keynes, convoys of driverless lorries could be taking to motorways in the UK for trials.
Report suggest that Chancelor George Osborne will confirm funding for a project in the upcoming budget announcement; allowing up to 10 autonomous trucks to convoy a few metres apart on Britain’s motorways.
The M6…
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Is the future finally here?
In a huge legal breakthrough for Google, it looks as though their self-driving test vehicle could be given the same legal definition as a human driver.
The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), which sets rules and regulations on America’s roads, shared its thoughts in a letter to Google. This indicates for the first…
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