Top VCs say Production of Multi-Hundred-Billion Tech Start-Up Could be Spurred by Brexit

According to a top Silicon Valley venture capitalist and former Apple executive, Brexit could boost the U.K.’s ability to create the next several-hundred-billion-dollar technology firm. On Tuesday, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May gave a speech suggesting that any deal reached with European lawmakers will be put to a parliamentary vote and last year, Britain voted…

A Highway Network Controlling Self-Driving Cars and Trucks Patented by Amazon

Patent for a network that manages a very specific aspect of the self-driving experience: How autonomous cars navigate reversible lanes, has been awarded to international online retailer Amazon. Reversible lanes are a potential disaster zone for self-driving cars that haven’t yet been programmed to understand those signals and hence reversible lanes indicate a change in direction of…

Intel’s sensor could provide a whole new in-store shopping experience

Its sensor packed platform helps not only consumers but retailers as well. Although technology is continuously reinventing your shopping experience, Intel wants to lend it a helping hand and speed things up. Intel is launching a Responsive Retail Platform which essentially standardizes your in-store shopping experience with a common set of sensors, components and a software…

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles caught cheating emission tests

The California Air Resource Board and the EPA have found the automaker in violation of their respective laws. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has notified Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) that it is in violation of the Clean Air Act, since its software installed in some of its diesel vehicles increased the emission of its…

NYU’s researchers replace real animals with a 3D model of Zebrafish

While the platform will save hundreds of lives of the fish, it could also play a key role in better understanding the functions of the brain in pre-clinical neurobehavioral studies. In a remarkable development researchers from New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering chose the zebrafish to be their virtual lab rats since they are…

Samsung Succession in Disarray as Lee Criminal Case Advances

Questions about who would step in to run South Korea’s biggest conglomerate in the aftermath are being raised as the long-orchestrated plan to cement Jay Y. Lee’s position atop Samsung Group may put him in jail instead. He could be prompted to relinquish duties at the family business, as prosecutors are seeking Lee’s arrest on allegations…