BMW has detailed a review of the digital systems that power its luxury vehicles, including a new map and navigation system, a revamped digital assistant, a “digital key” (first presented at Apple’s annual developer conference this week. passed) and Android Auto wireless. . But the most interesting thing that BMW …
Read More »Lemonade, a technology-driven insurance company, shoots 132% in its commercial debut (LMND)
Kimberly White / Getty Images Lemonade, a technology-driven insurance company backed by Softbank, soared 132% in its commercial debut on Thursday. The company set its IPO price at $ 29, representing a market valuation of $ 1.6 billion. It was valued at $ 2.1 billion in its 2019 funding round. …
Read More »Palmer Luckey’s surveillance startup Anduril signs a contract for the ‘virtual border wall’
The United States Customs and Border Protection Service (CBP) has signed an agreement with Anduril, the start of the “virtual border wall” launched by Oculus founder Palmer Luckey. The Washington Post reports that the agency awarded Anduril a five-year contract to deploy portable watchtowers designed to detect moving vehicles and …
Read More »Fire at Iran’s nuclear site hit new centrifuge facility
A fire and explosion hit a building above Natanz’s underground nuclear enrichment facility in Iran early Thursday, a site that US analysts identified as a new centrifuge production plant. Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization tried to minimize the fire, calling it an “incident” that only affected one “industrial shed” under construction, …
Read More »Kongregate.com stops accepting new games as Flash slowly disappears
Video game publisher and web game company Kongregate is no longer accepting new submissions for its game portal Kongregate.com, the company announced. As of this writing, the Kongregate site says there are 128,655 games available on the service, and the announcement means that more is unlikely. Kongregate says it is …
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