City Pilot has taken a key early step towards fully autonomous public transportation:[9] The Mercedes-Benz self-driving bus program saw one of its Future Bus vehicles drive 20 km (or around 12.4 miles) in the Netherlands, [6]on a route that connected Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport with the nearby town of Haarlem. Check also: Google’s self-driving cars are being crashed by human driven cars ...
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Meet China’s Longest Glass Bridge
Just in case the public wasn’t sufficiently convinced by a journalist smashing the world’s longest and highest glass bridge with a sledgehammer ( and surviving ),[9]the owners of the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon bridge in China decided to prove its safety by upping the ante over the weekend.[4] Check also: India’s Bullet Train To Travel Under The Sea In its latest media-directed “safety ...
Read More »Smacc Builds AI To Automate All Your Accounting
Smacc, which uses AI to automate accounting,[9] has secured a $3.5 million Series A round from Cherry Ventures, Rocket Internet, Dieter von Holtzbrinck Ventures,[4] Grazia Equity and business angels. Check also: Microsoft To Acquire LinkedIn For $26.2 Billion Smacc offers small and medium-sized enterprises a platform to digitize and automate accounting and financial processes.[12] The founding trio Uli Erxleben,[1] Janosch ...
Read More »Zimbabwe’s Richest Man Agreed To Buy Neotel For $430 Million
Liquid Telecom is a U.K-based internet broadband provider which is controlled by Strive Masiyiwa, Zimbabwe’s richest man,[9] has reportedly agreed to acquire South African telecom operator Neotel for $6.55 billion ($430 million) from Tata Communications, [4]a subsidiary of Indian conglomerate, Tata Group. Check also:Africa’s Richest Man Bids For Automaker Peugeot Liquid Telecom will be partnering with Royal Bafokeng Holdings (RBH),[2] ...
Read More »Apple Is Secretly Fighting To Keep You From Repairing Your Phone
It’s no secret that Apple makes a ton of money by charging ‘astronomical’ fee for replacing and fixing display and other components of iPhone and iPad (as well as Mac line).[9] For instance, the company charges $599 for replacing the display on the iPad Pro tablet. Check also: 7 Ways You Could Be Killing Your iPhone Battery Unknowingly Which sounds ...
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