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Gothenburg-based Volvo and Stockholm-based Autoliv are joining forces to speed up the development of autonomous vehicle technology. The two Swedish companies won’t be keeping this technology all to themselves, however, and will be selling it to any automaker that’s interested in purchasi

It’s still hard to believe that we now live in a world where playing video games is a viable career, and where video games themselves are being used for both educational and medical purposes. There are numerous examples of this, but one of the more recent ones comes from the University of West

Have you ever seen the movie Minority Report? If you haven’t, all you need to know is that it’s about a special police unit that’s able to predict crimes, and is therefore able to arrest criminals before they actually commit those crimes. We don’t have anything close to the t

If Apple did it, you can bet your ass that Xiaomi is going to do it too. In all fairness, the majority of Apple’s competitors do the same thing, but most of them are just following Apple’s lead, whereas Xiaomi tends to just blatantly copy whatever Apple does. Whether or not this will be

Lyft has always been a distant second to Uber in the ride-sharing market, and always will be, but considering how Uber is a $68 billion behemoth, that’s nothing to be ashamed of. Being a distant second hasn’t stopped the company from raising $2 billion in funding from the like of General

As an organization that’s all about being community-driven and whose products are all about being open-source, it seems only natural that Mozilla would have its community crowd-source its new logo. Mozilla announced as much back in June, and you can learn all about it on the Mozilla blog, but

Just because it’s not fresh doesn’t mean it’s not edible. For people willing to eat food that’s old, but not too old, a new app by the name of Too Good To Go sells leftover food that restaurants would normally throw out. Naturally, the food is much cheaper since it’s no

Members of ISIS have been using social networks like Twitter to recruit new members and spread their propaganda, and many people feel that Twitter should be held accountable for allowing this to happen, so much so that the families of two victims of a terrorist attack in Jordan have sued the company

Due to a combination of cultural differences and regulations designed specifically to hinder foreign companies, it’s very difficult for Western companies to operate in China. That notorious difficulty wasn’t enough to stop Uber from trying to establish itself as China’s dominant ri

Interesting, but not necessarily appealing. That’s a description you could use for just about every piece of Nintendo hardware that’s been released in the last decade, and it looks like the Nintendo NX won’t be any different. At least, that’s what I can gather from a recent r

Marissa Mayer has laid off thousands of Yahoo employees over the last four years, all in an effort to turn things around for the company. It didn’t work, and neither did any of her other turnaround efforts, which is why Yahoo’s shareholders have decided to throw in the towel and sell the

We all know that Pokemon Go is big, but just how big, exactly? Well it’s hard to get exact numbers without going through Nintendo, but Inverse searched through a few different graphs to get an idea of just how popular the new game is, and the conclusion isn’t all that surprising: it&#821

In order to make up for how lackluster this generation of consoles has been, Microsoft and Sony are planning to release upgraded versions of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 sometime in the near future. Microsoft has been fairly open about what to expect from its upgrade, known as Project Scorpio, but

Line hasn’t found much success here in the West, which is why it might seem odd that the company decided to list itself on the New York Stock Exchange before listing itself on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, but it makes sense when you think about it. Line’s messaging app completely dominates

Millennials are a notoriously difficult demographic to attract, because growing up with digital media has made is so that their tastes and preferences are vastly different than previous generations. In an effort to attract millennials, businesses have had to look at what’s popular with them an

With valuations of $68 billion and $46 billion, respectively, Uber and Xiaomi are the two most-valuable startups in the world at the moment, which means there’s a lot of anticipation surrounding their IPOs. Unfortunately, both companies have refused to give us anything more than an extremely v

In the two years since OnePlus exploded onto the smartphone scene with the OnePlus One, rumors that the company is working on everything from a smartwatch to a tablet have popped up, though no evidence of these claims has ever been presented. Now, just a couple of weeks after the release of the OneP

Being able to download content to your device so that you can stream it offline is an essential feature for music-streaming services, but not so much for video-streaming services. Being able to download content to your smartphone while you’re on Wi-Fi allows you to access that content while yo

As a non-profit organization whose one mission is to “defend the free and open web,” it makes sense that Mozilla wants its community to help update its brand identity. In a blog post on Wednesday, the organization expressed its desire to create a new brand identity that will help people

The OnePlus 2 is a great smartphone, but it’s far from the “flagship killer” that OnePlus describes it as. For a company whose motto is “Never Settle,” OnePlus did a lot of settling with the OnePlus 2, and the smartphone hasn’t been able to capture fans in quite t

This generation of consoles has been very disappointing, and the PlayStation 4 is no exception. Sony might be enjoying record sales at the moment, but the fact that developers are already feeling the limitations of the console’s hardware, as well as the fact that it doesn’t support emerg

Amazon has been stepping up its video streaming game to better compete with Netflix, and is even planning to release its own YouTube competitor, but it’s expansion into the entertainment industry isn’t limited to video centric services. According to a report from Reuters on Friday, Amazo

After months of rumors and speculation that it’s going to auction off its core web business, Yahoo has finally decided to throw in the towel and do just that, and Verizon looks like the most likely buyer at the moment with a $3 billion bid. The company is also auctioning off a portfolio of abo

There’s some good news and bad news for Nintendo fans if this report that Digitimes published on Thursday is accurate. The good news is that sources within Nintendo’s supply chain claim that the company is adding virtual reality functions to its upcoming console, known as the Nintendo NX

When you’re the only country in the world that prohibits women from driving, it becomes necessary to invest in things like public transportation in order to ensure that half the adult population isn’t forced to ask for rides in order to travel long distances. Obviously a more simple solu

The dominance of American media across the globe means we don’t have to worry about our culture being drowned out by foreign media, but that same dominance also makes it to where foreign countries have to worry about American media drowning out their culture. That’s why many European cou

PornHub is definitely one of the most adventurous adult websites out there. It used to have a billboard in Times Square before it was forced to take it down, it gave away free virtual reality headsets to promote its virtual reality porn section, and now its delving into the already crowded world of

It’ll be a while before Xiaomi launches a smartphone in the United States, assuming it ever does, but that doesn’t mean Xiaomi won’t launch other kinds of consumer electronics. During the Google I/O developer conference on Wednesday, the company revealed that it’s partnering

Just because you’re paying your ISP for a certain level of internet speed doesn’t mean you’re actually receiving that level of internet speed, and Netflix has made it ridiculously easy to figure out if your ISP is screwing you over. There are plenty of websites that can measure you

Believe it or not, Nintendo used to be a rather adventurous company, experimenting with everything from instant rice to love hotels, but that was before it rose to become one of the most prominent names in the video game industry. Following its ascension, Nintendo decided to shift nearly all of its

Sony is doing pretty well thanks to the success of the PlayStation 4, but that success can’t sustain the company forever, and it needs to find an alternative source of revenue if it wants to survive. There are plenty of emerging technologies to choose from, and Sony is already experimenting wi

Opening a physical store is one of the last things you’d expect an e-commerce giant like Amazon to do, but that’s exactly what the company did a few months ago when it launched a brick-and-mortar bookstore in Seattle. Even more surprising is the fact that CEO Jeff Bezos told shareholders

Due to popular demand, Uber launched a new feature called Family Profiles back in March, which are joint profiles that allow multiple users to bill their rides to the same payment card. With these profiles, family members and close friends can pay for each other’s rides when necessary, and Ube

Tencent was able to use the power of its massively popular messaging and social networking services to dominate China’s video game market while it was still in its infancy. From there, the company used this position of power to make itself the go-to partner for foreign companies looking to bri

BlackBerry is a company that should be taking some pages out of Samsung’s book, but it looks like the reverse will be happening with the Galaxy Note 6, which is expected to launch sometime in August. SamMobile reported on Tuesday that Samsung is planning to adopt a BlackBerry-like software hub

The legal war between the government and the tech industry has quieted down in the weeks since the highly-publicized battle between Apple and the FBI came to an anticlimactic end, but this is only temporary. FBI Director James Comey made it clear on Wednesday that the government will continue to fig

Spotify was the undisputed king of music-streaming before Apple entered the market, but now that Apple Music is here… Spotify is still undisputed leader. In fact, a Spotify vice president by the name of Jonathan Forster claims that the launch of Apple Music has caused his company to grow faste

China never fails to deliver when it comes to smartphone leaks, and the latest delivery is the first alleged image of the OnePlus 3 that we’ve seen. Surprisingly, there hasn’t been much news regarding the upcoming smartphone, despite the rumors that it’s going to be unveiled someti

There’s a big difference between being outdated and being retro, and Nintendo is notorious for confusing the two. Things might be different with the Nintendo NX, however, as ScreenCritics reported on Thursday that the upcoming console will abandon disc drives in favor of the cartridges that so

Back in January, General Motors announced that it had formed a “long-term strategic alliance” with the ride-sharing company known as Lyft, which involved “joint development of a network of on-demand autonomous vehicles.” Neither company has said much about the alliance in the