Technology / IIoT
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Google self-driving unit Waymo picks Detroit factory site
Waymo will lease a now-closed American Axle & Manufacturing plant, so it can convert the vehicles, mostly Chrysler Pacifica minivans
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Samsung delays folding phone launch after breaking issues
Quality setbacks include screens flickering, freezing and dying, as well as confusion over the outer plastic layer
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U.S. expands probe into air bag failures to 12.3M vehicles
Parts in question are made by ZF-TRW installed in Toyota, Honda, Kia, Hyundai, Mitsubishi and Fiat Chrysler vehicles
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Coming to store shelves: cameras that guess your age and sex
In-store camera technology creep up on you to see what you’re buying, not whether you’re stealing
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Canadian households with streaming TV expected to eclipse cable, satellite next year: report
About a third of Canadian households will not have a traditional TV subscription by the end of next year, says the report
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5 reasons why autonomous cars aren’t coming anytime soon
Are we there yet? Researchers will need to overcome obstacles in the road before giving a green light on self-driving vehicles
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Toyota, SoftBank fund, Denso invest US$1B in Uber
The funds are earmarked for developing automated ridesharing services, Uber ATG
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Tesla wants to cut size of board from 11 directors to 7
The shakeup of the board is viewed as a move toward greater accountability to stakeholders
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Tesla gears up for fully self-driving cars amid skepticism
Without Lidar or three-dimensional mapping, the vehicles aren’t fully self-driving, say critics
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Amazon and Google end spat, bring YouTube to Amazon devices
Back in 2017, Google pulled its popular YouTube video app from Amazon’s Fire TV after the online shopping giant refused to sell some Google products
