June 8, 20210CommentsAI pioneer Raquel Urtasun launches self-driving technology startup with backing from Khosla, Uber and Aurora
June 8, 20210CommentsSources: Apple is in early-stage talks with China’s CATL and BYD, two of the world’s biggest automotive battery makers, to supply batteries for its planned EV (Reuters)
June 8, 20210CommentsChinese lidar maker Hesai, which has customers like Bosch, Lyft, and Baidu, raises $300M Series D led by GL Ventures of private equity firm Hillhouse Capital (Rita Liao/TechCrunch)
June 8, 20210CommentsBosch opens a €1B chip plant in Germany to start making chips for power tools in July and automotive chips in Sep., as the auto industry battles a chip shortage (Douglas Busvine/Reuters)
June 8, 20210CommentsIn a huge sting operation, FBI and Australian Federal Police ran an “encrypted” chat service AN0M for 3+ years to intercept messages between criminals globally (Catalin Cimpanu/The Record)
June 8, 20210CommentsApple introduces Digital Legacy, letting users assign “legacy contacts” who can access their info on devices and in iCloud after supplying a death certificate (Rhiannon Williams/inews.co.uk)
June 8, 20210CommentsApple introduces Object Capture, an API on macOS Monterey that enables developers to turn 2D images of real-world objects into 3D models optimized for AR (Oliver Haslam/iMore)
June 8, 20210CommentsApple’s new encrypted browsing feature won’t be available in China, Saudi Arabia and more
June 8, 20210CommentsFTC: consumers have reported losing nearly $82M to crypto scams during Q4 2020 and Q1 2021, up more than 10x YoY (Alexander Osipovich/Wall Street Journal)
