Ford Motor Co is investing US$1bn in a months-old start-up founded by two pioneers in the nascent autonomous vehicle sector. The Pittsburgh-based artificial intelligence company Argo AI will develop the brains – specifically, a virtual
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While Uber got shellacked for its link to US President Donald Trump, the electric car maker and sometimes-rival Tesla has comfortably weathered its association with a president who has
Uber’s food delivery service, UberEats, is expanding its footprijnt in South Africa, growing to new suburbs in Johannesburg and Cape Town. From Thursday, UberEats is also available in areas north
Internet ride-hailing service Uber has begun mapping Johannesburg, using specially equipped vehicles to gather imagery and other information aimed at improving its core product. In 2016, Uber started putting mapping cars on the road in Mexico, Canada
More than 120 companies, from Apple to Zynga, filed an impassioned legal brief condemning US President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration, stepping up the industry’s growing opposition to the policy. The amicus brief was filed late
In 2010, an advanced aircraft engineer at Nasa’s Langley Research Centre named Mark Moore published a white paper outlining the feasibility of electric aircraft that could take off and land like helicopters but were smaller and quieter. The
Uber Technologies CEO Travis Kalanick is stepping down from US President Donald Trump’s business advisory council after criticism from customers and drivers. Kalanick’s participation on the council, along with more than a dozen other US
Google has asked staffers who may have been affected by a new executive order on immigration to return to the US quickly, joining a growing number of technology executives voicing concerns over restrictions that could
Uber Technologies is hoping to win brownie points with some cities by opening up a small sample of its ridership data. The San Francisco ride-hailing company introduced a traffic dashboard called Uber Movement, saying the tool
What if everything you ordered on the Internet was delivered to your door in less than 60 minutes? That’s what a new start-up, Zulzi, is promising. Donald Valoyi, its founder and CEO, has big ambitions to