Baidu, nVidia To Build Independent Self-Driving Car Platform

Chip-maker nVidia and Chinese internet company Baidu announced a strategic partnership to focus on building a computing platform for self driving cars.   According to research by Boston Consulting Group, the autonomous car market could be a $42 billion market by 2025, which could be around 12-13% of the total auto market.  Moreover, China could be the largest market for autonomous features in cars over the next two decades. 

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Nissan’s Two-Pronged Attack On Obsolete Diesel

EU carmakers race to replace discredited diesel engines with something more palatable, and today’s flurry of electric car announcements at the Paris auto show are testament. Japan’s Nissan embarks on a pincer attack against diesel. Nissan leads world markets with its all-electric LEAF. Today however, the company showed something more conventional, and yet revolutionary, that might hasten diesel’s demise: An engine with all the power, but none of the NOx.

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New Galaxy S8 Leak Reveals Samsung’s Powerful Surprise

With the updated Galaxy Note 7 phablets still sitting in Samsung’s warehouse waiting for the right moment to go back on sale, the South Korean company will be looking to next year’s flagship smartphone to recover some of the excitement and rebuild trust in the Galaxy brand. And a recent hardware leak suggests that Samsung is going all-in on one of those exciting areas .

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