GM ups electric and autonomous vehicle spending to $27 billion through 2025
General Motors said it will spend $27 billion over the next five years on the development of electric vehicles and automated technology, a 35% increase that exceeds the automaker’s investment in gas and diesel and is an effort to bring products to market faster.
More than half of GM’s c
Verizon partners with Apple to launch 5G Fleet Swap
Apple and Verizon today announced a new partnership that will make it easier for their business partners to go all-in on 5G. Fleet Swap, as the program is called, allows businesses to trade in their entire fleet of smartphones — no matter whether they are currently a Verizon customer or not &
Is the internet advertising economy about to implode?
Advertising drives the modern digital economy. Whether it's reading news sites like this one or perusing your social media feeds, advertising is the single most important industry that came out of the development of the web. Yet, for all the tens of billions of dollars poured into online advert
48 hours left to save $100 on passes to TC Sessions: Space 2020
T-minus two days and counting. That's how much time you have left to score early-bird passes to TC Sessions: Space 2020. If you're part of this global startup community, don't miss a two-day deep dive focused on the intrepid visionaries pushing the boundaries of technology and forging t
Google Stadia and GeForce Now are both coming to iOS as web apps
Google and Nvidia both had some news about their respective cloud gaming service today. Let's start with Nvidia. GeForce Now is now available on the iPhone and the iPad as a web app. The company says it's a beta for now, but you can start using it by heading over to play.geforcenow.com on y
‘Wonder Woman 1984’ is coming to HBO Max (and some US theaters) on Dec. 25
Although COVID-19 is surging in the United States and around the world, Warner Bros. still plans to release “Wonder Woman 1984” on Christmas Day — but its plans are are no longer limited to a theatrical release.
Director Patty Jenkins and star Gal Gadot both posted tweets last night a
Microsoft brings new shopping tools to its Edge browser
Microsoft announced a few updates to its Edge browser today that are all about shopping. In addition to expanding the price comparison feature the team announced last month, Edge can now also automatically find coupons for you. In addition, the company is launching a new shopping hub in its Bing se
Google rolls out iOS widgets for Gmail, Drive and Fit; says Calendar and Chrome coming soon
Google has updated its flagship iPhone apps with support for home screen widgets, a new feature of iOS 14. The company announced today it’s rolling out new widgets for Gmail, Google Drive, Google Fit and soon, Google Calendar and Google Chrome, in order to put useful information on the home s
Against all odds: The sheer force of immigrant startup founders
I’ve long said that I don't care where you come from, if your name is hard to say, or you have a “funny” accent. There's a reason for that. For centuries, some of America’s biggest companies have been founded by immigrants. Beyond household names like Levi Strauss (G
Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost explains the strategy behind acquiring Spacemaker
Autodesk, the U.S. publicly listed software and services company that targets engineering and design industries, acquired Norway's Spacemaker this week. The startup has developed AI-supported software for urban development, something Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost broadly calls generative design.
Amazon S3 Storage Lens gives IT visibility into complex S3 usage
As your S3 storage requirements grow, it gets harder to understand exactly what you have, and this is especially true when it crosses multiple regions. This could have broad implications for administrators, who are forced to build their own solutions to get that missing visibility. AWS changed that
Medable raises $91 million for its clinical trial management software
The clinical trial management software developer Medable has raised $91 million in a new round of financing as life sciences companies struggle with how to conduct the necessary validation studies of new drugs and devices in a pandemically challenged environment.
Digital and decentralized clinical
Google plans to test end-to-end encryption in Android messages
For the past year and a half, Google has been rolling out its next-generation messaging to Android users to replace the old, clunky, and insecure SMS text messaging. Now the company says that rollout is complete, and plans to bring end-to-end encryption to Android messages next year.
Google’s
PayPal launches a new crowdsourced fundraising platform, the Generosity Network
PayPal is expanding its fundraising efforts with today’s launch of the Generosity Network. Unlike the PayPal Giving Fund, which helps people support charities through online donations, the new Generosity Network lets people raise money for themselves, other individuals in need, or organizatio