Technology

  Singapore / AFP A car taking part in the world’s first public trial of driverless taxis was slightly damaged on Tuesday when it collided with a lorry in Singapore, its operator said. No one was hurt in the accident in One North, a suburban research campus where the vehicle has been on a limited run since August, US software ...

  Relaxnews Sony has released a new interactive virtual reality game, based on the supernatural blockbuster film “Ghostbusters.” The game, titled “Ghostbusters VR – Now Hiring”, is available for purchase as an app on iOS and Android mobile platforms, with a price tag of $4.99 and also comes as a free addition with purchases of the 4K Blu-ray editions of ...

  Seoul / AFP Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday it would compensate suppliers hit by the decision to scrap its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones because of safety fears with exploding batteries. The South Korean electronics giant announced a week ago that it was discontinuing the Note 7 after a chaotic recall that saw replacement phones also catching fire. Samsung said ...

Bloomberg Pick up a high-end smartphone these days and chances are it will have a crisp, energy-sipping organic LED display — unless it’s an iPhone. That will change next year, when Apple Inc. plans to adopt the technology for the next major upgrade to its flagship product. To do so, the Cupertino, California-based company will have to get its hands ...

  Relaxnews Though the future of personal mobility will be electrically driven, don’t expect to see traditional gas stations disappearing into the automotive history books any time soon. “There will be no such thing as a ‘one-size-fits-all’ solution,” said Klaus Fröhlich, Member of the Board of Management at BMW AG, Development. “We see the approach of using myriad [drivetrain] technologies ...

  Relaxnews Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger said the company’s future lies in using technology to make more direct connections to consumers, although he declined to say whether he was interested in buying Twitter Inc. or Netflix Inc. The following are excerpts from Iger’s remarks at the Boston College Chief Executives Club. Iger, 65, made the remarks ...

  Washington / AP Looking to break out of a “messy” email situation, the nonprofit group dosomething.org recently switched over to a new way of communicating among its far-flung teams. Moving most internal communications to the messaging application Slack with its “channels” for various teams made it easier to coordinate the group’s social change projects across 131 countries, said software ...

  NEW YORK / AP Does this sound familiar? You want to stream a movie and end up spending most of your time clicking through a disorganized sea of options, most of which aren’t especially good, anyhow. FilmStruck, a new subscription streaming service to launch on Wednesday by Turner Classic Movies and the Criterion Collection hopes to fill what’s been ...

    Relaxnews Putting a premium on premium, HP has overhauled its flagship Envy and Spectre devices just in time for the US holiday season. The HP Spectre x360 was already an aesthetically pleasing convertible PC — i.e., it can be used as a tablet or a notebook — but now it’s even thinner and lighter for stylish on-the-go productivity. ...

  Bloomberg Self-driving technology promises to pretty much transform the auto industry as we know it. It may also change the business of selling motorcycles—but in a very different way. It all comes down to safety, according to Karl Viktor Schaller, head of development at BMW Motorrad. When robots are at the wheel, far fewer bikers will die on the ...