Congress is right to focus on developing a national policy to promote the safe deployment of autonomous vehicles (AVs). However, the current versions of legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives (H.R. 3388, the SELF DRIVE Act) and pending in the U.S. Senate (S.1885, the AV START Act) will not achieve this goal. In […]

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey says his time at Facebook taught him to “be careful who you trust,” in a new feature Wired published Monday. The virtual reality executive left Facebook in March 2017 after a tumultuous tenure at the social media giant. Facebook bought Oculus, which develops virtual reality technology, for $2 billion in 2014. […]

Rebecca Schulte, 24, was at her apartment in West Hollywood when she received a call from a familiar area code. She picked up. “I’m on the side of the road, there’s been a really bad car accident,” a man said. He told her he’d found her number in the injured man’s phone. Rebecca knew her […]

In 2013, Facebook bought an Israeli app developer called Onavo, whose service helps consumer protect their mobile data while browsing. Now, the company has told legislators that it does not connect data from Ovavo to individual users’ Facebook profiles, while acknowledging it does use Onavo data to see what people are doing in other products […]

Facebook’s Instagram is letting people shop directly from its Stories, opening up a direct way for people to buy what they see. Starting on Tuesday, some retailers, including Adidas, Aritzia and The Kooples can tag and link directly to their products. Instagram users can click on the link and buy the item directly, without having […]

I tossed and turned last night, and according to a new app that uses your phone’s speakers to measure how well you sleep, I only got five hours and 37 minutes. The app is called SleepScore and it’s the first of its kind to measure how well you sleep without requiring anything more than your […]

Facebook denied building eye-tracking software in its response to questions from Congress released Monday but said if it ever did build out the technology, it would take privacy into account. The social media company holds at least two patents for detecting eye movements and emotions, which it said “is one way that we could potentially […]

Forty-six-year-old tech titan Elon Musk is currently worth more than $20 billion, according to Forbes. But the Tesla and SpaceX boss hasn’t always been so wealthy. On Saturday, Musk tweeted about the early years of his career. “I arrived in North America at 17 w $2000, a backpack & a suitcase full of books. Paid […]

A top Wall Street firm is getting more optimistic on Twitter’s prospects. J.P. Morgan raised its price target to $50 from $39 for the social media company’s shares, citing improving conversations with advertisers. “We are raising our estimates on TWTR shares as we believe advertising momentum is strengthening, particularly among large marketers,” analyst Doug Anmuth […]

Sachin Solkhan, a veteran software engineer who works with Fidelity Investments, has thought a lot about how technology can help people with dementia recognize their loved ones. So when Amazon launched its DeepLens camera in November 2017, he got the idea to use its artificial intelligence software to do just that. Ahead of the device’s […]