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TuSimple Aims At Self Driving Vehicle Market

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San Diego- and Beijing-based TuSimple , a startup developing autonomous driving technology, says it has received a permit from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to test autonomous driving vehicles on the road. The startup says it hopes to run a test this month taking an autonomous vehicle 420 miles from San Diego to Tucson.

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Sebastian Thrun and Udacity Launch New Self-Driving Nanodegree

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Thrun (pictured) says many software engineers working at the raft of companies now developing self-driving vehicles have trained in the technology via Udacity , the educational technology company he. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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How Will Apple Innovate Beyond the iPhone 7? With Next-Gen Siri

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Maybe, before phones can get smarter, software engineers have to get smarter. What made the original iPhone so groundbreaking was a remarkable convergence of hardware and software innovation. But my bet is that the seeming slowdown in the iPhone iteration cycle isn’t primarily a hardware issue. Let me explain.