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US finally approves driverless vehicles in pizza delivery revolutionThe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) granted temporary approval for robotics company Nuro to run a low-speed autonomous delivery vehicle without the side and rear-view mirrors and other safety provisions required of vehicles driven by humans. Also not on the safety feature list are windscreen wipers, steering […]

Abbey Road Red start-ups help unlock the metadata and money behind the musicWith Abbey Road Red now entering its fifth successful year in 2020, the next two start-ups joining the six-month incubator programme are MyPart, from Tel Aviv, and Audoo from London. Both companies are exploring technologies that will help songwriters get discovered sooner and […]

Smartphone tool could help diagnose infectious illnesses, such as coronavirusThe mobile health tool, developed by a team at the University of Cincinnati (UC), is the size of a credit card and plugs into a smartphone. The device then automatically connects the user to a doctor’s office through a custom app. As well as the deadly coronavirus […]

Mastercard quit Libra after spotting red flagsFacebook announced the Libra project in June 2019: a payments system which it hoped would be used by billions of people to make easy online payments. The system uses a digital wallet (Calibra) and digital currency (Libra), which would be tied to real-world assets for stability. Facebook planned for […]

Mobile apps could be streamed ‘instantly’ to phonesThe software is based on the idea that most apps do not need all their files at any one time, so just a small fraction of the files actually need to be stored on the device itself. The software continuously predicts when it is necessary for an app […]

Trump and Johnson clash over UK’s Huawei 5G dealPrime Minister Johnson had previously opposed repeated lobbying from the US to ultimately rule that the Chinese firm could play a limited role in the UK’s 5G infrastructure. The US had warned that the move would jeopardise intelligence sharing as it raised concerns over the telecommunications company’s […]

Facebook’s Twitter account compromised, hacker group claims creditThere’s this brilliant feeling on Fridays if you’re a reporter when you think that all the things you have to write about are complete. You kickstart some work for Monday. Maybe you tighten up a to-do list. Hell, you might even read some email. But then on Fridays […]