Uber and the GM-owned autonomous vehicle company Cruise are partnering together to bring the robotaxis to the Uber platform, according to a press release.
The companies plan to launch the multiyear partnership next year with a set number of autonomous vehicles. Once the robotaxis are available, when an Uber rider requests a qualifying ride within the Uber app, they may see the option to have that trip fulfilled by an AV.
“We are excited to partner with Uber to brin
California has struck a first-in-the-nation agreement that will see local government and large tech companies spend more than $250 million over the next five years to support news organizations across the state. That sort of a cash infusion would normally be cheered by the journalism industry, which has been struggling in recent years (something many publishers partially blame on Google
U.S. auto safety regulators closed an investigation into the performance of autonomous vehicle company Cruise’s robotaxis after it agreed to recall its entire fleet of 1,194 robotaxis in order to fix an issue with unexpected breaking.
Cruise patched a software update in order to fix the issue, according to the recall notice shared by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
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An attempt to use an extendable robot to remove a fragment of melted fuel from a wrecked reactor at Japan’s tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plan
California will be the first U.S. state to direct millions of dollars from taxpayer money and tech companies to help pay for journalism and AI research under a ne
An elections technology company is taking full responsibility for glitches that kept many Florida county elections officials from immediately posting primary results Tuesday night.
While the problem
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Most space mission systems historically have used one spacecraft designed to complete an entire mission independently. Whether it was a weather satellite or a human-crewed module like Apollo, nearly every spacecraft was deployed and performed its one-off mission completely on its own.
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With just weeks left until voters head to the polls, Democrats are increasingly prioritizing advertising on streaming services over traditional television.
Just days before the Democratic National Convention, the Harris campaign announced plans to reserve at least $370 million in advertising buys for the coming weeks; $200 million of that will be spent on digital ads, with much of it
The latest quarterly e-commerce sales report from the U.S. Department of Commerce shows that online sales are outperforming offline when it comes to the pace of growth.
American consumers bought $291.6 billion worth of goods through e-commerce retailers in the second quarter of 2024, up 1.3% from the first three months of the year, and up 6.7% from the same period in 2023. That 6.7% year-on-year growth is