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Google said it would not renew a contract to help the US military analyse aerial drone imagery when it expires, as the company sought to defuse internal uproar over the deal.

Google India VP heads to Sequoia Capital

Anandan will leave Google, owned by Alphabet Inc, at the end of April, according to a statement issued by Google.

3 April 2019 2:51 PM IST

NASA is paying Boeing and SpaceX about USD 6.8 billion to build rocket and capsule launch systems to return astronauts to the International Space Station from US soil for the first time since Americas Space Shuttle program went dark in 2011. (Photo: AP)

Boeing safety debate highlights challenge for autonomous tech

In the wake of two plane crashes, regulators across the world have grounded the 737 MAX aircraft pending an...

3 April 2019 2:16 PM IST

BMW eyes 100,000 electric car sales in 2017: Sueddeutsche

Autonomous driving start-up Aurora open to working with BMW, Daimler

BMW and Daimler in February announced an alliance to develop technologies for highly automated driving.

3 April 2019 2:08 PM IST

Qualcomm had initially announced its bid for Dutch semiconductor company NXP Semiconductors in October 2016.

Qualcomm finance chief departs for rival Intel

Davis had been the Qualcomm's finance chief since 2013 and also served on the executive committee of the company's board...

3 April 2019 1:59 PM IST

The camera- and sensor-equipped vehicle is the first autonomous car to be added to The Henry Ford collection. (Photo: AP)

Autonomous cars to quadruple vehicle software revenues to USD 1.2...

Vehicle software currently generates annual revenues of USD 280 billion a year.

3 April 2019 1:37 PM IST

Ubers competitors and businesses in the gig economy will also be considering what this means for them. (Photo: AP)

Stricter rules for transport companies like Uber?

The new law to impose stricter rules on such app-based transport companies, if passed, will come into effect at the...

3 April 2019 1:26 PM IST

Evidence suggests that Tether may have been used to manipulate the price of bitcoin.

Bitcoin jumps 20 percent, mystery order seen as catalyst

The original cryptocurrency soared as much as 20 percent in Asian trading, breaking USD 5,000 for the first time since...

3 April 2019 1:19 PM IST

Toyota vehicles account for more than 80 percent of the hybrid vehicle market.

Toyota to give royalty-free access to hybrid-vehicle patents

The Japanese automaker said it would grant licenses on nearly 24,000 patents on technologies covering hybrid power...

3 April 2019 1:11 PM IST

Lyft executives including Chief Policy Officer Anthony Foxx said that the company has taken other steps to combat congestion such as showing bus arrival times on its smartphone app and investing in bicycles and scooters. (Photo: AP)

Why some green investors are passing on Uber and Lyft

Both companies hope to push people away from car ownership and promote shared and sustainable transportation services.

3 April 2019 12:58 PM IST

Lyft previously announced partnerships with Alphabets self-driving division, Waymo, technology company Nutonomy, and automakers General Motors Co and Jaguar Land Rover. Lyfts new effort could put it in direct competition with some of those partners.

Lyft falls further from IPO after receiving first 'sell' rating

Shares of the money-losing San Francisco company fell as much as 4.2 percent to USD 66.10.

3 April 2019 12:48 PM IST

Youngsters are using WhatsApp to consume news. (Photo: Pixabay)

WhatsApp makes group chats more secure, gives users more control

The messaging app has added that a new privacy setting in which an invite system will help users decide who can add them...

3 April 2019 12:40 PM IST

The Housing Department claims Facebook mines data about its users and then employs machine learning to predict their responses to ads in ways that may recreate groupings defined by characteristics such as race.

Facebook, Twitter sucked into India-Pakistan information war

With a combined population of 1.5 billion, India and Pakistan are hot growth markets for Facebook and Twitter.

3 April 2019 12:07 PM IST