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…
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…
Accusing the head of Samsung Group, the country’s biggest conglomerate, of paying multi-million dollar bribes to a friend of President Park Geun-hye, South Korea’s special prosecutors’ office said it will seek a warrant to arrest Jay Y. Lee . As investigators probed a corruption scandal that resulted in parliament impeaching Park last month, the Samsung Group chief was…
After a leap in prices to record levels last year, salmon devotees should prepare to pay more for their smoked fish or grilled fillets. Noting the first decline in six years and the steepest fall in a quarter of a century, supplies of global farmed salmon fell almost 9 per cent from the previous year,…
China plans to give a further boost to its economy by spending $503B on expansion of its railways. As China turns to investments in infrastructure to bolster growth and improve connectivity across the country, it plans to spend 3.5 trillion yuan ($503 billion) to expand its railway system by 2020. According to details released at…
Just look at Mongolia if you think air pollution in China has been bad. Levels of particulate matter in the air have risen to five times worse than Beijing during the past week’s bout with the worst smog of the year and are almost 80 times the recommended safety level set by the World Health Organization. While acrid…
According to a new congressional study, while being far ahead of France, the No. 2 weapons dealer with $15 billion in sales, the United States again ranked first in global weapons sales last year, signing deals for about $40 billion, or half of all agreements in the worldwide arms bazaar. With Qatar signing deals for…
What shape Brexit will take is still the question as the new year approaches. In return for securing control of immigration as well as most of its money and laws, the U.K. will surrender most of its existing economic and trade ties, according to a new report by a group of academics. “I’d put my…
As families, kids, and even child-less millennials looking for a new way to socialize with friends, board games are returning as a mainstream entertainment among these groups. The board game boom has led to cafes and bars focused on gaming apart from leading to the creation of new games. According to Euromonitor International, with expected…
Consumer virtual reality (VR) has failed to gain traction from investors heading into the New Year even though it might have been a buzz phrase in the tech scene for most of 2016, according to a venture capitalist. “I think 2017 will be what we call the winter of VR … especially from an investment…
