Tap Your Phone, and a Designated Driver Takes You (and Your Car) Home


Tap Your Phone, and a Designated Driver Takes You (and Your Car) Home
Luxe, a fast-growing startup that uses a phone’s GPS to offer a personal parking valet in crowded cities, is expanding its service to driving customers home — in their own cars — when they’ve had a few too many drinks.

June 26, 2015 at 05:24AM
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A Google self-driving car cut off a rival self-driving car and nearly caused a collision


A Google self-driving car cut off a rival self-driving car and nearly caused a collision
Two self-driving prototype cars, one operated by Google Inc and the other by Delphi Automotive Plc, had a close call on a Silicon Valley street earlier this week, a Delphi executive told Reuters on Thursday.

June 25, 2015 at 09:32PM
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Divorced By Data


Divorced By Data
Today, divorces and infidelity investigations increasingly center around digital forensics, involving data gathered from wearable devices and smartphone applications such as Find my iPhone and mSpy. This unintended consequence of modern data gathering shifts the discussions of digital privacy to intimate ones of emotional privacy, leading to bizarre moments of Orwellian heartbreak.

June 25, 2015 at 02:08PM
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