Lyft is partnering with Magna, one of the largest tier-one automotive industry suppliers in the world, on autonomous vehicle technology. Lyft CEO and co-founder Logan Green explained that this will help them get their self-driving tech into various automaker vehicles around the world. Lyft will be working directly with Magna on “co-developing” an autonomous driving […]
Google, eBay and other technology leaders are aiming to protect the world’s animals. Why? In a widely unregulated social-media world, many tech platforms have become a haven for the wildlife black market, a $20 billion industry. The sale of illegal animal goods — from ivory to exotic pets — is the fourth-largest criminal global trade […]
Karix Mobile, a leading messaging solution and mobile engagement company (formerly known as mGage India) headquartered in Mumbai, India – announced the launch of its cloud communications platform as a service (CPaaS) – karix.io. The platform was showcased at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (Feb 26 – March 1, 2018) and would initially offer programmable […]
Every five minutes a child around the world dies at the hands of violence. To help put an end to violence against children, UNICEF and The Monkeys‘ new campaign, ‘A Minute of Your Time‘ turns time into money and money into real, life-saving aid for children in danger. The national awareness and fundraising campaign […]
Google Station is the company’s high-speed public Wi-Fi platform that first launched in India two years ago and later expanded to Indonesia. The free service is now available in Mexico City. The premise behind Station is to improve access to high bandwidth services in areas where internet data plans might not be affordable, and thus […]
Audi‘s traffic light countdown has been rolling out very slowly in the US (it’s active in just seven cities so far), but it just made one of its biggest expansions yet: it’s now available in Washington, DC. Pull up to one of 600 connected intersections in the country’s capital and your compatible Audi will tell […]
YouTube will add information from Wikipedia to videos about popular conspiracy theories to provide alternative viewpoints on controversial subjects, its CEO said. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said that these text boxes, which the company is calling “information cues,” would begin appearing on conspiracy-related videos within the next couple of weeks. Wojcicki, who spoke at a […]
If you had to make your own personal sound, what would it sound like? You could be influenced by pop, country, rap, rock—or you could sound like a blend of all genres. That’s what Pandora wants to find out at its South by Southwest activation. Partnering with Tool of North America, Pandora brought its long-running […]
Giphy’s chief executive Alex Chung revealed prototypes of two pieces of hardware that the company is working on during a talk at SXSW. The first is a product called Giphy Camera that Chung described as a “disposable camcorder that can take and make gifs.” While Chung revealed scant details about how exactly it works, he […]
Since its inception in 2000, Gumtree has successfully brought classified ads to the masses, and along the way helped grow the world’s thriving online retail market. Joining the eBay Classifieds Group in 2005, its growing user base delivers over 16 million unique visits a month – making it the UK’s #1 classified ads site. […]