If there are two things that Japan is one of the undisputed masters of, it’s robotics and transportation. That’s why it’s not all that surprising to see that the country will begin testing self-driving taxis outside of Tokyo starting next year. The tests will involve using autonomo
Data centers are really expensive to maintain, which is why companies like Netflix that consume vast amounts of data prefer to use cloud-based systems. That’s why the company has announced that it will be shutting down the last of its data centers by the end of the summer, thus ending the proc
Facial-recognition is becoming mare advanced and more prevalent every day, and not all of us are comfortable with that. For the more privacy-conscious people out there, the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo has developed something called the “Privacy Visor” that uses unique angl
In case you missed it, OnePlus officially announced the OnePlus 2 during the world’a first-ever virtual reality product announcement last night. While interesting, the event wasn’t all that great, especially since everything that was revealed during the event had already been revealed in
The closed circuit that Amazon has used to distribute goods is changing, at least for Amazon Prime members. They are going to allow certain goods to be shipped directly from the merchants or manufacturers, increasing the number of items that are eligible for fast delivery and cutting additional ship
Amazon and eBay aren’t really direct competitors, but they still compete with each other. That’s why its only natural for eBay to counter Amazon’s most effective tool, Amazon Prime, with a premium service of its own, known as eBay Plus. However, this services is geared more towards
Few countries are as popular a target for cyberattacks as Israel, and public utilities are one of the primary targets. That’s why state-owned Israel Electric is betting its future on cyber-security exports, as providing electricity to Israeli homes has left the company with billions of dollars
Jet is an e-commerce startup that has been getting a lot of attention recently for its promises to dethrone Amazon and, despite having not even launched yet, things are looking promising for the company. Although dethroning Amazon will undoubtedly take years, Jet is off to a good start by beating Am
With somewhere around $500 million in funding, Zenefits is now worth $4.5 billion, an impressive feat only made more so by the fact that the startup is only a couple of years old. What’s especially interesting about Zenefits is that, despite the fact that, despite being an enterprise software
Not even poor Chinese workers can compete against robots that don’t even need to be paid. At least, that’s what the founder of Foxconn thought a few years ago when he claimed the world’s biggest contract electronics maker would soon have an army of robots doing its work. The problem is,
LG thinks we’ve waited long enough for an official unveiling of the LG G4, which is why the company finally to the wraps off its latest flagship smartphone today. Many of the details about the smartphone were leaked over the past couple of weeks and it appears as though most of them were true.
After finally revealing just how much money it was making off its cloud-computing business, Amazon was rewarded with record-high share prices, which made the company’s market capitalization increase by more than $27 billion to a whopping $200 billion. Despite how the company posted yet another