Self-drive Singapore
MIT start-up Nutonomy launched the world鈥檚 first public self-driving taxi service last week. Beating giants like Uber and Google to the tape, Nutonomy set up the pilot taxi service in Singapore, collecting real customers from the city-state鈥檚 one-north business park. Nutonomy will not charge customers for the rides. Instead, their payment will be valuable data on the performance of the driverless cars.
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Vehicles for jihadis?
The UK parliament鈥檚 Home Affairs Committee criticised the world鈥檚 largest tech companies last week for shying away from the war on ISIS. Committee chair Keith Vaz said huge corporations were 鈥減assing the buck鈥� by allowing ISIS to use their platforms. The committee said social media platforms had become the 鈥渧ehicle of choice鈥� for terrorist recruitment and propaganda.