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China’s electric vehicle companies are pouring into the Middle East where both investors and consumers have a growing appetite for the country’s Tesla challengers. Shanghai-based Nio announced Tuesday that CYVN Holdings, a smart mobility-focused investment vehicle majority owned by the … Continue reading →

Rivian is the latest automaker to jump on Tesla’s charging standard, the North American Charging Standard (NACS). This comes just weeks after Ford and General Motors announced that their upcoming electric vehicles would have the proper equipment to recharge using … Continue reading →

We all know what authentication is. You enter a user name and password, or your face or your fingerprint, and you can access a device or an application, but what you can do with that application or device falls under … Continue reading →

Artificial intelligence touches many aspects of professional industries, including medicine, legal, business, information technology and more, as of late; AI-powered transcription service is one example that has become an integral part of those fields.   Parrot AI, a transcription platform offering … Continue reading →

A couple of years after its original announcement, Spotify will finally launch its HiFi tier with lossless music streaming through a “Supremium” plan later this year, which might cost more than the current premium plan of $9.99 per month. A … Continue reading →

Digantara, an Indian space tech startup that is working on space situational awareness, has raised $10 million in a funding round led by Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia Capital India and Southeast Asia) as it plans to kick off commercial … Continue reading →

European regulators are at a crossroads over how AI will be regulated — and ultimately used commercially and non-commercially — in the region, and today the EU’s largest consumer group, the BEUC, weighed in with its own position: stop dragging … Continue reading →

Oracle is formally launching its “EU Sovereign cloud” for customers in the European Union (EU) today, nearly a year after firs revealing plans for the initiative. So-called “digital sovereignty” has emerged as a critical issue for companies operating across the … Continue reading →

No need to sugarcoat it, the history of Android tablets is rough. There are some exceptions. Samsung, for one, has managed to carve out a nice market for itself in the space, courtesy of nice hardware and heavy Android customization. … Continue reading →