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Daimler and Robert Bosch to create a self-driving car

German concern Daimler AG and Robert Bosch company announced beginning of cooperation on development of a fully autonomous control system for cars. The companies expect that their system will increase safety on the roads, and also consider it as an alternative to a taxi. Daimler and Robert Bosch...

Miniature Lab Conducts Successful Experiments In The Outer Space

Shrinking a lab into the size of a tissue box that could be operated remotely and can perform experiment in micro-gravity opens new vistas before the space scientists. SpacePharma is a “Swiss-Israeli company” that reported about its “miniature lab” which found a new method for the researches to...

Germany is not afraid of digitalization

Germany and Japan, two leading powers in the field of automation of production and robotics, have established a "digital alliance". The agreement crowned visit of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Hannover, where he and Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, opened CeBIT...

Driver-less Car Sector Shaken Up By Intel's $15 Billion Purchase Of Mobileye

In a deal that could thrust the U.S. chipmaker into direct competition with rivals Nvidia Corp and Qualcomm Inc to develop driver-less systems for global automakers, Intel Corp agreed to buy Israeli autonomous vehicle technology firm Mobileye for $15.3 billion.   At a time when Intel has...

Talk To Appliances, Or Text Them? Smart Condo Conundrum

In today's so-called smart home, simply by talking to a small Wifi-connected speaker, such as Amazon's Echo or Google's Home, you can dim the lights, order more toothpaste or tell the kids to go to bed.   Barely in existence in 2014 was the voice-first market - combining voice with...

Luxottica and Essilor will make smart glasses popular

There have been several years since Google presented its Google Glass. Now, manufacturers of glasses are attempting to create a sufficiently massive product. According to some estimates, this market can reach 55 million units by 2022. Customers and analysts are focusing on a very large player that...

As Voice Assistants Race To Cover Languages, Apple's Siri Learns Shanghainese

With Apple Inc, Amazon.com Inc, Microsoft Corp and now Alphabet Inc's Google all offering electronic assistants to take your commands, the voice-assistant wars are in full swing with the broad release of Google Assistant last week.   Apple has squandered its lead when it comes to...

Visa opens center of innovative technologies in London

Visa company opened the largest center of innovation in London. The facility will be used to develop new methods of payments in cooperation with partners and customers from all over Europe. The area of more than 1 sq. m. has locations for live demonstrations, including presentations of Internet of...

Wearables market is drowning

According to Strategy Analytics, sales of smart watches in 2016 rose by only 1% compared to 2015. Experts are also worried by the fact that many owners of such gadgets do not wear them. This week, Google has released the first in the last three years upgrade for smart watch. Recently, LG and...

Lines Over Who Owns Devices Blurred by Companies With Remote Control

The lines between who ultimately controls your phone, or computer, car or appliance: you, or the companies that make it work were further blurred when Samsung Electronics remotely disabled the last of its flawed Galaxy Note 7 smartphones last month.   Though not always with permission or...
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