Technology

In a sign that investors’ enthusiasm for driverless cars hasn’t dampened yet, Pony.ai today secured a whopping $ 462 million in fresh funding, $ 400 million of which came from Toyota. The capital infusion brings the Guangzhou- and Fremont, California-based startup’s total raised to about $ 800 million at a …

I love Mega Man, but even I only had a small amount of experience with the Mega Man Zero and Mega Man ZX series. They just don’t seem to get as much love or appreciation as the classic Mega Man or Mega Man X games. So I was excited for …

When it comes to selling games, Microsoft is all-in on subscriptions. But it’s not emphasizing the Game Pass subscription service to the exclusion of other business models, Xbox boss Phil Spencer said in an interview with Insomniac Games founder Ted Price for the Game Maker’s Notebook podcast. Instead, Spencer thinks …

Sega is pursuing an effort to expand into the broader entertainment business. That has led the company to invest in Flutin, an Indian music-discovery startup service. Flutin uses data to surface new musical artists based on various factors. This is important for Sega, because indie music is especially popular in …

HyperX has spent years building out its lineup of excellent headsets for every budget and scenario. Now, it’s going back and making improvements to some of its best products, like the Cloud Flight. With the new HyperX Cloud Flight S, the company has made various revisions and added support for …

Google today shared a bunch of security news at RSA Conference 2020, which kicks off this week in San Francisco. The company’s Google Cloud division introduced threat detection and timeline capabilities in Chronicle. Google Cloud also launched reCAPTCHA Enterprise and Web Risk API in general availability. In January 2018, Google …

Inclement weather — particularly rain and snow — threaten to stop autonomous vehicles in their tracks. That’s because precipitation covers cameras critical to the cars’ self-awareness and tricks sensors into perceiving obstacles that aren’t there. Plus, bad weather has a tendency to obscure road signage and structures that normally serve …

Ever since Henry Ford came up with the idea of using moving assembly lines to build automobiles faster at lower cost and at higher quality, efficiency has been the driving force in industry. Unfortunately, it’s the wrong approach for modern businesses. We’re no longer in an industrial economy. Today, information …

No Man’s Sky’s range of galaxy-trekking space ships are about to feel a bit more, well, alive. Developer Hello Games today introduced the Living Ship update, which adds a race of biological spaceships to the massive VR-compatible sci-fi adventure. These unique craft aren’t made of nuts and bolts — they’re hulls …