In the rapidly developing battle among automakers and tech companies over who will be the first to deploy self-driving cars for everyday use by the public, General Motors is sending a message: Its subsidiary Cruise Automation is quickly learning what it takes to put autonomous-drive vehicles on the road. “We are making rapid progress toward […]

Microsoft announced that Mixed Reality headsets, which will let you step into Windows and experience it in a whole new way, are now available for preorder. The headsets, made by Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo and Samsung, will ship by the holidays. Each headset should provide a relatively similar experience and, with Microsoft’s Windows 10 Fall […]

A start-up called Carrot just got cleared from federal regulators for its digital approach to help millions of people quit smoking. Part of its program includes the first FDA-approved use of a smartphone app to help people quit smoking. The venture-backed company offers a combination of two things: A mobile coaching program called Pivot and […]

Oath, the new digital advertising and media company that combines AOL and Yahoo, has a monstrous challenge ahead. Google and Facebook control almost two-thirds of the online ad market, according to eMarketer. Verizon — the parent of Oath — is stuck below 5 percent and in a tie for third with Microsoft. Beyond trying to […]

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was initially dismissive of the idea that fake news disseminated by “advertisers” via Facebook had any outcome on the U.S. presidential election. But now, he and the social media giant are clearly changing their tune. Zuckerberg apologized recently for dismissing concerns that Facebook impacted the campaign as crazy: “After […]

Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s research team shared its top e-commerce stock ideas in a note to clients Tuesday. “We view global eCommerce as a strong secular growth theme that still has five to ten years to play out,” analyst Justin Post wrote in the report. The analyst gave his five key reasons why e-commerce […]

The morning after 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire on 22,000 concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival in Las Vegas, Mandalay Bay Resorts promptly opened a crisis center, asking certified trauma counselors to volunteer and go to “Circus Circus – Ballroom D,” according to a tweet. The makeshift crisis center was open to […]

Google-parent Alphabet is on the verge of launching a service with its self-driving cars that could rival Uber and Lyft, The Information reported on Tuesday. But Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving car company, must fix a glitch first, according to The Information: The vans have trouble making left turns. The Chrysler vans, which would pick up and […]

Apple just released iOS 11.0.2, which fixes some issues with the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, as well as general bugs found in the first two versions of iOS 11. The big change includes a fix “for an issue where crackling sounds may occur during calls for a small number of iPhone 8 and […]

NASA scientists are working overtime to develop data products that help first responders in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria left the U.S. territory ravaged on Wednesday, Sept. 20. When the storm barreled over the island, it took out much of Puerto Rico’s electrical grid. Now, for the first time ever, NASA is using its Black […]