GM presents fully autonomous VTOL self-driving personal transportation vehicle

In a significant development General Motors Co presented a futuristic self-driving vehicle flying Cadillac which can take off and land vertically carrying passenger above streets through the air. A senior GM executive described the concept as “reimagining the future of personal transportation”. The single-passenger Cadillac, which essentially is a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) drone,…

PayPal Holdings blocks Christian crowdfunding site linked to alleged Trump supporter

In a statement PayPal Holdings Inc said it has blocked GiveSendGo, a Christian crowdfunding site which helped raise funds for people who attended last week’s event in Washington after supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump, visited en mass at the Capitol. PayPal confirmed that it has closed an account held by Ali Alexander, one of…

Stellar Christmas Sale Prompts Britain’s Sainsbury’s To Raise Profit Outlook

With people in the United Kingdom being forced to celebrate at home during the festive season because of the restrictions imposed to prevent the spread of the second wave of the Covid-19, the British supermarket group Sainsbury’s beat its own expectations for trading, prompting the company to raise its profit outlook. In the company’s fiscal…

Social media companies freeze Trump’s account as supporters storm U.S. Capitol

With supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump moving into Capitol grounds, tech companies, including Snap Inc, Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc locked their respective accounts of the U.S. President following allegations of China-backed rigging of the 2020 U.S. Presidential elections. Twitter hid and mandated the removal of three of Trump’s tweets “as a result of…

Self-driving software startup Oxbotica raises $47M in latest funding round

On Wednesday, in a statement self-driving software startup Oxbotica stated, it had raised $47 million in its latest funding round led by the venture capital arm of BP, Halma Plc, a health and safety device maker, and Tencent. Oxbotica, an Oxford University spinoff, develops autonomous systems that could be used in a range of vehicles…