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Nissan

Renault-Nissan to research and design electric cars in India, for deployement in China

With the advent rise in pollution and traffic around the globe, automobile manufacturers…
Yahoo

Yahoo open-sources a machine learning model for identifying pornographic images

Machine learning is now becoming ubiquitous with each passing day. And Yahoo is…
Amazon, Alexa, amazon prime, prime now

Amazon launches ‘Alexa Prize’ to give university students a chance to build conversational AI bots and snag $2.5 million

With the launch of its voice-enabled assistant Alexa, Amazon has leap-frogged towards…

Google, Facebook, Microsoft, IBM and Amazon are teaming up for a landmark, ‘Partnership on AI’

What happens when all of world’s biggest tech companies, who command a…

SpaceX is producing 300 Merlin engines a year, the ones that power its Falcon rockets

Elon Musk, the visionary futurist who went into the greatest of details…

SpaceX successfully test-fires ‘Raptor’ interplanetary transport engine that’ll carry humans to Mars

Elon Musk, the legendary founder and CEO of SpaceX is hell-bent of…

ISRO releases an year worth of data from the Mars Orbiter Mission

Mars, the red planet, the god of war according to Greek and…
Google, Waymo, automation

Google’s self-driving car sustains major damage during an accident in Mountain View

Google, as we’re all aware, has been continuously testing and refining its…

Google’s Daydream VR development kit graduates out of beta, SDK 1.0 now available for download

Virtual Reality — the buzz word that is on everybody’s tongues nowadays.…
nutonomy

nuTonomy partners with Uber rival Grab to test its autonomous cab service in Singapore

Let’s recall the recent happenings in the ride-hailing service space: Uber after exiting…

Google acquires natural language startup API.ai to help developers build better conversational experiences

Google’s research arm has been working on some complex but powerful natural language…

Artificial Intelligence will now predict text on SwiftKey for Android

When Microsoft acquired SwiftKey this year, we knew something big was going…
Udacity, mapmyindia

Udacity partners with Mercedes-Benz, Nvidia and others to offer a ‘self-driving car’ nanodegree

Udacity is coming up with yet another out-of-the-box, futuristic nanodegree — Self…

Starting today, you’ll be able to hail a self-driving Uber taxi in Pittsburgh

Uber has been working on developing its own self-driving tech behind closed…

Lenovo delays the launch of the first-ever Tango powered smartphone, the Phab 2 Pro

Lenovo’s Phab 2 Pro has been touted to be world’s first-ever smartphone integrated…
apple, india stores, iphone

Apple restructures its self-driving project to focus more on software, lays-off personnel, starts on-road tests

While every other tech and automobile behemoth is pushing hard to develop…

iStaging Corporation secures $5 million in pre-Series A to promote the best-in-class AR and VR tools

iStaging Corporation, a leading augmented and virtual reality technology provider has secured…

Google extends new FASTER undersea cable network to Taiwan, for speedier internet connectivity

After flipping the switch and connecting its first two major countries via the…

Intel acquires computer vision chipmaker Movidius to further build out its RealSense platform

To boost its computer vision capabilities and further augment RealSense platform’s development…

Spacecom to seek $50 million reimbursement or a free flight from SpaceX after Falcon 9 explosion

SpaceX has been overcast with shadow since the unexpected explosion of its…