About $4 billion worth of backing

The Us government has shown its support of the autonomous car industry today at Detroit Auto Show, announcing plans to help accelerate the development and introduction of self-driving technologies in the country.

No more fumbling about with your next destination

Google Maps is easily one of the most helpful apps for getting around and it has a new feature on Android that will predict where you’re going.

13 times in 424,000 miles isn’t so bad…

Here’s an interesting statistic: in the last 14 months, autonomous cars have nearly been in at least 13 crashes and have needed to revert to manual control 341 times, according to a new report filed by Google with the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).

Giving phones the finger

Motorola launched a strong range of handsets in 2015, but one thing they all lacked was fingerprint scanners.

What’s Apple building in there…?

Apple may be about to make it a lot simpler to switch from the iPhone to an Android phone.

„Siri, how am I feeling?“

Thanks to an abundance of sensors, smartphones now know more about us than ever – but Apple wants to up the ante by making phones that can understand our facial expressions and thus our changing moods.

Monkey see, monkey do

Humans and macaques share about 93% of their DNA, so it was only a matter of time before our monkey friends started taking selfies. However, a court ruling has decided that while they can take photos, they can’t own them.

Office 365 goes behind the wheel

In a first of its kind collaboration for Microsoft in the connected car space, the company announced that it was teaming up with Harman to bring productivity services to drivers during their commute. The companies envision that the connected car will be your next office. As part of the collaboration, drivers will have, hopefully safe, access to Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud services while they drive.

Say goodbye to that junk folder

The ability to delete the default apps on an iPhone is something iOS users have been asking Apple to do for years now, but Apple won’t budge. It means that a lot of users have a folder of what they consider to be useless apps, such as the Watch app when you don’t even have an Apple Watch paired with your device.

You only live once

What’s on your bucket list? For most people, the things they want to do before heading to the great gig in the sky might include skydiving, vacationing in Italy, or learning to paint. For us geeks, though, our bucket lists look a little different.