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...
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...
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...
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...