U.S. spending bills allocates upto $100 million for R&D into autonomous vehicles and its impact on the traditional transportation job market

With companies racing to place their autonomous automated smart vehicles on the U.S. market from 2019, this funding program aims to assess the impact, including the feasibility, safety and potential job losses, these technologies will bring about for commercial autonomous vehicles. In a significant development, a U.S. spending bill includes a $100 million for a…

Hackers gain access to 880,000 payment cards through Orbitz

Hackers have managed to gain access to a treasure trove of critical information, including, names, phone numbers, payment card details, billing addresses and e-mails from the partner platform of Orbitz, a subsidiary of Expedia Inc. Orbitz, a subsidiary of online travel agency Expedia Inc has disclosed that hackers have been able to access personal information…

All of Tata Motors’s car offerings from its JLR brand would either be hybrids or EVs post 2020

All of JLR’s vehicles, after 2020, will sport BlackBerry’s infotainment software from its QNX unit. On Thursday, Tata Motors Ltd and BlackBerry Ltd stated they have reached a licensing agreement whereby Tata Motors can use BlackBerry’s software in its next-generation electric vehicles. BlackBerry will provide its security and infotainment software to Tata Motors’ JLR unit…

Global Sale Of Artificial Intelligence-Driven Hardware To Reach $115 Billion By 2025: Tractica Report

There are many companies that are now engaged more and more in a race in the market where that deals with manufacturing of perfect hardware for accelerating applications using artificial intelligence. A new market research report from Tractica claims that significant progress has been made in compute – one of the three key parts of…

Shares of Swedish biometric firm Fingerprint Cards come to a grinding halt

“The reason for suspension is due to non disclosure of inside information,” said Nasdaq Stockholm in a statement. Trading in the shares of Fingerprint Cards (FPC) came to a halt on Tuesday following the issuance of a warning by a brokerage firm to analysts that the Swedish biometric firm faced too high market expectations for…