Tech Industry

WASHINGTON: Amazon said Friday it was buying the self-driving car tech startup Zoox, in an effort to rev up the drive for autonomous ride-hailing and compete against rivals like former Google car unit Waymo. Terms of the deal were not…
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LONDON — Google says it will start paying some publishers for their news content, in a move that could pave the way for reduced tensions between the internet search giant and the beleaguered news industry. The company said Thursday that it…
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This morning, Hopin, a London-based startup building virtual events technology, announced that it has raised a $40 million Series A led by IVP. According to the company, Salesforce’s corporate venture arm Salesforce Ventures also took part…
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With Amazon Honeycode, introduced June 24, 2020, Amazon Web Services is offering a managed AWS service that allows non-technical users to build mobile and web apps without writing any code. Now in beta, Honeycode uses a spreadsheet model,…
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Slack has taken another step in its aim to replace email with the launch of Connect, a communication environment that enables messaging collaboration between multiple organizations. Advancing the concept of the shared channels feature  …
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Sony has launched a bug bounty programme that will pay more than $50,000 to anyone who can find critical vulnerabilities in the PS4. Eager to make sure the PS4 and PlayStation Network are secure before the launch of the PS5 later this…
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Google is planning to take some heavy lifting out of maintaining your privacy by getting rid of one of the biggest obstacles: actually going to your settings to change your preferences. On Wednesday, the company announced that it will…
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iOS 14 was officially announced during Apple’s WWDC Special Event Keynote on Monday, but that doesn’t mean it’s available for everyone to try just yet. iOS 14 is currently only available to developers through beta testing, but Apple has…
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Weride, a Chinese self-driving startup backed by the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance, is making its autonomous vehicles available for ride-hailing on Alibaba’s map platform Amap, also known as Autonavi. Starting Tuesday, riders in…
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The Web Summit has said that it will return in December with capacity for 100,000 attendees, both offline and online. With Collision now underway, Web Summit has promised that its flagship will event return with both offline and online…
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