Amazon Orders 100,000 Rivian Electric Vans With Delivery Starting By 2021
Rivian is a startup making electric SUVs and electric trucks. Amazon has ordered100,000 electric delivery vans from Rivian. Rivian said it will design, build…
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Wing drones to make FedEx, Walgreens deliveries in test
The drone unit spun out of a “moonshot” lab at Google parent Alphabet will start making “last-mile” deliveries for FedEx and Walgreens next month under a pilot…
Google: We Weren’t Being Sexist Giving Assistant a Female Voice
Ladies First In May, the United Nations released a troubling report, arguing that female-sounding voices for AI assistants such as Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s…
‘Flying’ river taxi tests Seine waters in Paris
A “flying” electric river taxi hailed by its creators as the future of clean city transport is being put through a battery of tests in Paris this week, with a…
Flying cars could cut emissions, replace planes, and free up roads
When Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was released 50 years ago, flying cars were a flight of fancy. Now, these futuristic vehicles are entering the outer fringes of…
Can an AI Scan Your Messages to Detect if Someone’s Flirting?
Overanalyzing For those who can never tell when someone’s flirting, some new AI apps might be able to help. Apps are popping up to help romantics determine…
WiFi 6 Launched With Better Connectivity & Speeds of Over 9 GBPS
The next generation of WiFi is here, WiFi Alliance, an organization that oversees the implementation of WiFi standards, has officially started its WiFi 6…
Watch This Flying Taxi Soar Over a German City
Urban Flight Enough with the renders of futuristic flying taxis real-life prototypes of flying cars are finally taking to the skies, and we’re here for it.…
5 ways that future A.I. assistants will take voice tech to the next level
Since Siri debuted on the iPhone 4s back in 2011, voice assistants have gone from unworkable gimmick to the basis for smart speaker technology found in one in…