Self-driving cars could only prevent a third of U.S. crashes: study
Self-driving cars, long touted by developers as a way to eliminate road deaths, could likely only prevent a third of all U.S. road crashes, an...
France, Germany back European cloud computing ‘moonshot’
France and Germany threw their weight on Thursday behind plans to create a cloud computing ecosystem that seeks to reduce Europe’s dependence on Silicon Valley...
German auto stimulus to boost VW’s electric push
Germany unveiled sweeping incentives for cheap electric cars, providing a boost to Volkswagen’s electric push while penalising heavy sports utility vehicles (SUVs) with new staggered...
Spain’s lower house to draft 3% digital tax on internet giants
Spain’s lower house voted on Thursday to begin drafting a 3% tax on revenues of internet giants, the latest of such moves by U.S. trading...
Ex-Apple engineers aim to help U.S. hardware makers troubleshoot from home
For years, hardware engineers at American consumer electronics firms have hopped on a flight to China to iron out manufacturing kinks on assembly lines, but...
Robots At Work: Enjoy your meal
Meet Amy, Aker and James – a robotic trio of waiters serving at a Dutch restaurant, and lessening the number of trips that human staff...
Robot bartender serves up safe booze to South Koreans
In a tailored jacket and bow tie, Cabo turns a block of ice into a perfect spherical ice ball to serve up a classic whiskey...
Zebra adds social distancing warnings to warehouse workers’ barcode scanners
Zebra Technologies Corp, which sells barcode scanners and other computers used in warehouses globally, introduced a feature on Thursday that sounds an alert when workers...
Spain’s lower house opens process to create digital tax on internet giants
Spain’s lower house voted on Thursday to begin legislating a controversial tax on internet giants that has prompted the United States to open a probe...
Robot to safely swab for coronavirus developed by scientists in Denmark
Danish researchers have developed a fully automated robot that can take coronavirus swabs so that health care professionals are not exposed to the risk of...
