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Tim Cook drops hints about autonomous tech and the Apple car

Apple CEO Tim Cook dropped a few hints in an interview released Monday about the direction of the much-anticipated Apple car, including that autonomous vehicle technology will likely be a key feature.

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Deep-sea mining – the secret to a green planet or an ocean threat?

01:13 On March 30, four global companies announced they wouldn't use materials sourced from deep-sea mining in their products and supply chains or fund research into the practice.But d

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Four-day working week is set to be trialed in Spain

02:25 Spain is set to launch a national trial of a four-day week after it was successfully introduced at a company in the heart of Andalusia, more than 300 km south of the capital Madr

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Spain’s Glovo picks up $528M as the food deliver market continues to heat up

On the heels of Deliveroo raising more than $2 billion ahead of its debut on the London Stock Exchange this week, another hopeful in the food delivery sector has closed a super-sized round. Glovo, a s

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Embedded procurement will make every company its own marketplace

In 2019, my colleague Matt Harris coined the term “embedded fintech” to describe how virtually all software-driven companies will soon embed financial services into their applications, from sending an

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Manticore Games raises $100 million to build a ‘creator multiverse’

The gaming sector has never been hotter or had higher expectations from investors who are dumping billions into upstarts that can adjust to shifting tides faster that the existing giants will.Bay Area

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Witness describes seeing Floyd ‘slowly fade away’

A man who was among onlookers shouting at a Minneapolis police officer to get off George Floyd last May was to continue testifying Tuesday, a day after he described see

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YouTube tests hiding dislike counts on videos

YouTube announced today it will begin testing what could end up being a significant change to its video platform: it’s going to try hiding the dislike count on videos from public view. The compa

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Google Nest Hub 2 review: The solid smart screen adds sleep tracking

Two-and-a-half years later, the Nest Home Hub remains one of my favorite smart screens on the market. Maybe that’s a commentary on the rate of improvement in the category, or maybe Google just got thi

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Why is Blinken upping the ante in Asia-Pacific?

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell (R) and visiting U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken attend a press conference in Brussels, Belgium, March 24, 2021

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Why is Blinken upping the ante in Asia-Pacific?

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell (R) and visiting U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken attend a press conference in Brussels, Belgium, March 24, 2021

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DiDi Chuxing expands to South Africa, to take on Bolt and Uber

Chinese ride-hailing company, DiDi Chuxing has started operations in South Africa today according to Reuters.Founded in 2012, the Beijing based company operates in more than 400 cities in China. It cl

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Aldridge decides to join Nets, what about Drummond?

LaMarcus Aldridge has agreed to a one-year, minimum veteran's deal with the Brooklyn Nets. /CFP LaMarcus Aldridge has decided to join the Brooklyn Nets, The Athletic's Shams Charania reported

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Vibrant raises $7.5M for a drug-free mechanical pill to treat constipation

Vibrant, a medical technology company that’s developed a disposable vibrating pill to treat chronic constipation, today announced its Series E for $7.5 million. The company is based in Tel Aviv and is

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Investors and business leaders: It’s time to take coaching mainstream

The business world has a love-hate relationship with coaching. Founders are visionaries: They start with an idea, a talent, a dream, but not necessarily the business know-how. Because being an entrepr

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Watch Zuckerberg, Pichai and Dorsey testify at the House hearing on disinformation and extremism

Big tech is back on the virtual hill.Three of tech’s most prominent CEOs will appear before the House Energy and Commerce committee today at 9AM PT as lawmakers grill the companies on their fail

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As more artists and musicians turn their attention to NFTs, so do bad actors

Outlets that follow the crypto industry have been observing a trend, which is that according to Google search data, the rise in interest in non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, now almost matches the level o