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Former NHTSA head blasts Cruise’s ‘Humans are terrible drivers’ ad Jul 20, 2023

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A former administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has responded to a full-page ad taken out in several major newspapers by Cruise, General Motors’ self-driving subsidiary, that calls humans terrible drivers.

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Farizon, Geely’s truck unit, raised $600M to expand outside China Jul 20, 2023

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Farizon, a maker of hybrid and electric trucks owned by China’s Geely, has closed a $600 million Series A raise, the company said in a statement.

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UK provisionally approves Broadcom’s $69B VMware acquisition Jul 19, 2023

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The U.K.’s competition authority has said that it plans to greenlight Broadcom’s $69 billion bid for virtualization software giant VMware.

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TikTok’s new program aims to identify rising artists in the music industry Jul 19, 2023

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TikTok is launching a new program that is designed to identify the next wave of rising artists in the music industry, the company announced on Tuesday.

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Hammerspace ingests $56M for a new approach to work with vast amounts of unstructured data Jul 18, 2023

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Data may be “the new oil,” but only when it can be extracted and put to use.

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Intel backs Figure’s Humanoid robot to the tune of $9 million Jul 18, 2023

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Bay Area-based robotics firm Figure this week announced that its humanoid officially took its first steps — a milestone it hit a few days shy of of the company’s first anniversary.

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Tesla announces first Cybertruck build ahead of Q2 earnings Jul 17, 2023

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Tesla over the weekend said its first much anticipated Cybertruck came off the electric vehicle maker’s production line in Texas.

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Google Play Games beta for PC expands to over 60 new countries including India Jul 17, 2023

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Google has finally launched its Play Games beta for PC project, which lets users play Android games on their Windows systems, in India after introducing it in more than 50 countries.

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India’s Chandrayaan-3 blasts off to the moon Jul 14, 2023

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Chandrayaan-3, India’s third mission to the moon, has taken off successfully — almost four years after its predecessor failed to touch down on the lunar surface in 2019.

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Cruise, Waymo say humans are bad drivers amid robotaxi permit delays Jul 14, 2023

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Autonomous vehicle companies Cruise and Waymo have separately pushed a narrative this week that humans are bad drivers, and that their technologies are crucial to making roads safer.

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