Apple confirms self-driving car layoffs, says it mostly fired engineers
By Stan Schroeder From Mashable Apple has laid off 190 employees working on the company’s self-driving car project, codenamed Project Titan. The layoffs were first reported on inJanuary, but now we know that most of the affected employees are engineers. …
6 major challenges foldable phones need to overcome to prove they’re not a fad
By Raymond Wong from Mashable are really, finally, happening this year. But almost nobody should buy one until their many kinks are worked out. Earlier this week, Samsung upstaged its own Galaxy S10 unveiling (all four of them) with another big announcement: its foldable…
APEX FullView phone
Vivo’s all-screen concept phone looks like it will become a reality By Timothy J. Seppala The company will talk about it more next month in China. It looks like Vivo is going to push forward with its APEX FullView concept…
We went for a ride in a Huawei smartphone-controlled, self-driving Porsche
By Brian Heater From Techcrunch Huawei didn’t have a new phone to show at MWC this year, so it did what any good smartphone maker would: it put the Mate 10 Pro in an autonomous car and drove it directly…
Gartner reports first ever global decline in smartphone sales
By Natasha Loma From techcrunch Global smartphone sales have not been firing on all cylinders for several years now but Gartner’s latest figures record the first ever decline since the analyst began tracking the market all the way back in…
As long as robots look adorable and make us coffee, we’ll be eating out of their robotic hands
By Brian Heater From Techcrunch It doesn’t take much. For all the bluster around the conversation about Skynet and robotic overlords, we still melt when a diminutive robot flashes the slightest hint of humanity through a small set of…
