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First LookEthics of driverless cars: Do pedestrian lives matter more than passengers'?The rise of autonomous vehicles revives an old ethical dilemma, known as the trolley problem.
Why Mark Zuckerberg covers his laptop's camera and microphoneIs taping your laptop a necessary security precaution? The chief executive officer of Facebook apparently thinks so.
Instagram: lost in translation no longerInstagram, the photo- and video-sharing app, announced the introduction of automatic translation, to be rolled out over the coming month.
Elon Musk tries to unite Tesla and SolarCity: Will shareholders allow it?Investors are expressing skepticism at Elon Musk's latest move in his mission to transform the聽way humans consume energy.
BMW's recycled electric car batteries to power homesBMW isn't the only automaker to get into home electricity game. Although Tesla has received a lot of press for its Powerwall module, numerous automakers are exploring how to use car batteries to power homes and offices.聽
First LookLittle change expected with iPhone 7. Has finally Apple plateaued?The new iPhone 7 might reflect saturation in developed countries' markets, and a push to gain territory in India and China.
Why Elon Musk wants to build a robot maid for youElon Musk-backed nonprofit OpenAI announced on Monday that among its technological goals is the creation of a household robot.
First LookCan a computer predict the future?Researchers at MIT say they have developed a new algorithm that can predict with surprising accuracy what will happen next in a video.
First LookInstagram hits 500 million active users, but not without controversyInstagram now has more than 500 million users, twice the number that it reported just two years ago.
Why Facebook's board members are no strangers to controversyThe company voted to re-elect board members Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen at a shareholders meeting Monday despite their roles in media lawsuits and Facebook's services in India.
How a little spherical robot is teaching kids to codeSphero's rotund robot can run mazes, light up, or beep like BB-8, but it is designed to help children learn how to code.- Will US productivity stagnate or flourish? Maybe neither.Stagnationists tend to underestimate the growth potential of information technology, while the techno-utopians overestimate it.聽
What will Magic Pony Technology do for Twitter?Twitter announced the acquisition of Magic Pony Technology on Monday, adding additional technology and talent to Twitter's machine learning investments.
Paul Allen vs. Elon Musk: a different approach to satellite launchesA private company backed by Paul Allen, Microsoft's co-founder, offered a glimpse last week of a massive plane it plans to use to launch satellites into low Earth orbit.
First LookMeet the world's first 1,000-processor microchipA design team at the University of California, Davis says their KiloCore microchip is 100 times more efficient than a modern laptop processor.
How China built world's fastest computer without US chipsA year ago, the US barred companies from exporting chips to China for supercomputers believed to be used in nuclear research. Today,聽China's Sunway TaihuLight is five times faster than the US' own technology.
Honesty matters: Twitch files lawsuit against bots faking viewershipBots fake viewership and followers on sites like Twitch, and can ultimately hold back broadcasters from success.
Waze to help drivers avoid tough intersections: Does GPS make us safer?Navigation app Waze has unveiled a new feature that will help drivers avoid difficult intersections, the latest technological attempt to make the roads safer.聽
Clean skies ahead? NASA unveils electric plane.NASA鈥檚 designs for an electric airplane can serve as a model for airplane manufacturers looking to create more efficient and environmentally friendly aircrafts.
Firefox offers a shift from single to split 'personalities' onlineMozilla has launched an experimental feature called Firefox Containers that gives users the option of separating their online identities within the same browser.
