Source: Nytimes
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The government wants to invest $4 billion into self-driving cars
Self-driving cars are the future of the automotive industry, and the Obama administration wants to ensure that that future is brought about as quickly as possible. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced on Thursday that...
Illumina has raised $100 million to detect cancer before it's too late
How many cancer-related deaths do you think would've been avoided if doctors had discovered the cancer sooner? Lots of them, I can assure you. But the problem is, most of the time,...
Most of Yahoo's employees have lost faith in the company
Yahoo has definitely seen better days, and though many people had faith that Marissa Mayer would bring those better days back when she became the company's CEO back in 2012,...
General Motors has invested $500 million into Lyft
When you're competing against a $51 billion (soon to be $62.5 billion) behemoth like Uber, it's important to have some big friends backing you, otherwise you won't stand a chance. Lyft...
California's new self-driving car regulations are bad news for Google
Thanks to the California Autonomous Vehicle Testing Program, not to mention its wealth of engineering talent, California has become the most vibrant hub for self-driving vehicle development in the world, but the...
Yahoo is considering selling off its core Internet business
Initially, many people were confident that former Google executive Marissa Mayer would be able to turn things around for Yahoo as its CEO and President, but after three years of...
Adele won't allow her new album to be available for streaming
Adele is one of the most-popular music artists in the world at the moment, so it's pretty obvious that her first new album in nearly five years is going to...
Lyft is seeking $500 million in funding to better compete with Uber
To say that Lyft is the underdog is a bit of an understatement. Whereas Uber has already raised billions in funding, with billions more to come in the future, and...
One of Google's self-driving cars was pulled over by a cop
When a cop pulls over a self-driving car for a traffic violation, who do they give the ticket to? That's a problem that a Mountain View police officer encountered earlier...
Airbnb has promised to start playing nice with city governments
Airbnb has been really aggressive with how it expands, which has more often than not brought it into conflict with local regulators, but the company has continued to choose to...