Tag: Autonomy
Russian brothers top Gaming Rich List, Google kills Fitbit smart watches
Luca Galante, the developer behind Vampire Survivors (pictured), also reportedly has a value of £40m The Sunday Times has revealed the UK’s top 30 richest game developers and players. The inaugural edition of the Gaming Rich List – a video game themed version of its long-running Rich List – leads with Russian-born…
Google to delete users’ location history, Volvo EV to feature ‘battery passport’
Google will delete everything it knows about users’ previously visited locations, the company has said, a year after it committed to reducing the amount of personal data it stores about users. The company’s “timeline” feature – previously known as Location History – will still work for those who choose to use it, letting them scroll…
Tech Digest daily roundup: UK restricts Microsoft, Activision from buying interest in each other
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has restricted Microsoft and Activision Blizzard from "acquiring an interest" in each other. It published an interim order stating they would need "prior written consent" from the UK regulator before making acquisitions between the companies. The order applies to the businesses as well as their subsidiaries. It comes two…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Human ‘drivers’ not accountable in self-driving cars
Human drivers should not be legally accountable for road safety in the era of autonomous cars, a report says. In these cars, the driver should be redefined as a "user-in-charge", with very different legal responsibilities, according to the law commissions for England and Wales, and Scotland. If anything goes wrong, the company behind the driving…
Say a command: The future of data is the spoken word, judging from Google and Autonomy
According to the Hollywood version of the future, we will eventually interact with computers just by speaking to them. We've come a way from humble beginnings in voice recognition, when cinema information lines kept messing up Brighton and Birmingham,…