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...Tech tools — Oppo Air Glass Chinese smartphone maker Oppo unveiled its first flagship folding phone, the Find N, at its innovation day this week, along with this augmented reality device, the Air Glass....
...Via Reuters: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on Wednesday asked Tesla Inc to recall 158,000 Model S and Model X vehicles over media control unit (MCU) failures that could pose...
...At 2am on the morning of May 11, Thomas Lauria poured himself a glass of Jack Daniel’s even though he was still at work....
...On Tuesday, when a Twitter user tweeted Tesla’s $200bn market cap to Mr Musk — with a couple of clinking champagne glass emojis — the Tesla chief executive replied “Party on . . .”....
...Shares of Boeing, MGM Resorts, smartphone glass maker Corning, auto parts supplier BorgWarner and engine builder Cummins were in negative territory....
...(New York Times) Auto royalty Ferdinand Piëch, who lead Volkswagen for more than a decade, has died at the age of 82....
...Shenzhen CONE Technology has developed a method to grow forests of vertically aligned single-walled CNTs on glass substrates....
...Another $5bn will be put towards Apple’s “advanced manufacturing fund”, which has already invested hundreds of millions of dollars in US suppliers Corning, maker of the iPhone’s glass screen, and Finisar...
...Ms Omar is one of the few women who have broken the glass ceiling in the airline industry....
...Google’s X lab has been home to experimental projects including delivery drones, internet-delivering balloons and Glass headset....
...But people who work on the same street are in no doubt that Apple employees work behind the frosted glass windows: the company has been trying to push out other nearby tenants so that it can have the whole...
...To them, recent talks to merge the PC units of Fujitsu and Toshiba, and Osaka Steel’s takeover of rival Tokyo Kohtetsu, show the ministry is running Japan Inc once again....
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...“The international brands are already responding in the way the auto industry always does — by cutting price,” he says....
...(FT) The thickness of the glass ceiling The New York Times has created an index to measure how unrepresented women are....
...Mr Gillett says that integration platforms such as Android Auto, Apple’s HomeKit framework and Samsung’s SmartThings, signal another approach, one that recognises the need to let customers add or integrate...
...An intellectual and pragmatist, he won the admiration of the auto industry during the 2008-2009 crisis by calling for a “scrapping subsidy” to incentivise new car purchases....
...It feels well put together, with a 3.5-inch glass touchscreen, the trademark qwerty keyboard, and a textured plastic back that gives the handset some grip....
...It will also need allies in the auto industry to build it. But despite holding discussions with the likes of Toyota, Volkswagen and GM, those allies have yet to be brought on board....
...These included a version for cars, called Android Auto, and a TV set-top box, named Android TV, taking Google into fields that Apple has already entered....
...Also on display for the first time were new software platforms called Android Auto, pictured, and Android TV, which promise to take Google’s software and services on to a wider array of screens....
...What’s interesting is that all those intangible abilities are inside the auto companies to make it happen.”...
...Citigroup was selling them auto insurance just in time for them to crash their cars and cost Mr Weill and his shareholders lots of money....
...Auto manufacturers will also offer Siri integration over the next 12 months. There will be Spanish, Italian, Korean, Mandarin and Cantonese Siris. 11.12am He announces iOS 6 with 200 new features....
...To be sure, the move to buy Solutia, which makes among other things – rubber adhesive for car tyres and coatings for glass panels used in replacement auto windshields and buildings – is not without its logic...
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