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Waymo announces another $2.5 billion in funding from latest investment round

Autonomous rideshare startup Waymo has announced an additional $2.5 billion investment round of funding. Waymo plans to use the additional funding, led by parent company Alphabet Inc., to hire more staff and advance its self-driving technology toward more paid rides. Waymo was launched in 2009 by Google’s parent company Alphabet, Inc., as a self-driving car project. In 2016, the Google…
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Harley-Davidson’s next new electric motorcycle name and power details just slipped out

In a few weeks Harley-Davidson plans to unveil its latest electric motorcycle model. Now some newly revealed details indicate that the bike being unveiled on July 8th will be known as the LiveWire One and we’re already getting to see some early power specs. The upcoming electric motorcycle will be the first model launch under the new LiveWire brand. H-D recently spun off LiveWire as its own…
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Amex bets on AI and NLP for customer service

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. The customer draws the AI roadmap at American Express (Amex), at least according to two of the company’s top AI leaders. When describing their latest project, Josh Pizzaro, the company’s director…
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Concept Part 2: How iOS 16 should improve apps like Photos, Music, Watch, Clock, Calculator, and more

Earlier this week, we shared the first part of our iOS 16 concept and explained why we were publishing these ideas so far in advance, especially with the first iOS 15 beta just dropping. That first piece focused on changes to system components, while this piece focuses on individual apps and ties the two together. We looked at a few of Apple’s built-in apps that we believe could use some…
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Honor 50 series will see the return of Google apps following Huawei split

It’s been over two years since Huawei was cut off from the Google Play Store and other crucial Android apps. Now, after splitting from Huawei, the Honor brand is launching its first device with Google apps in the flagship Honor 50 series. Honor was sold to a government-backed group in November 2020 that allowed the sub-brand to start working with Google again. Months later, we’re finally…
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