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Amazon acquires self-driving start-up Zoox for over $1.2bn Deal is ecommerce group’s biggest investment in autonomous vehicle sector JUNE, 28, 2020 Zoox technology could be used to expand Amazon’s delivery fleet, though one person familiar with the deal expects the ecommerce group to push into ride-hailing Also, Twitter says about Amazon will acquire self-driving start-up Zoox for more than $1.2bn, marking the ecommerce group’s biggest investment into the autonomous vehicle sector. Amazon intends to work with Zoox to create a fleet of self-driving taxis, in competition with Alphabet’s Waymo, said one person familiar with the deal. But analysts also suggested that Amazon may use Zoox to build self-driving delivery vehicles. Amazon has also bought smaller stakes in electric truckmaker Rivian and the self-driving start-up Aurora. Zoox will operate as a standalone business, Amazon said, with its leadership unchanged. “Zoox is working to imagine, invent, and design a world-class autonomous ...

Why doesn't Apple want to change their lighting port to USB type-C? Apple likes to control their entire product ecosystem. Part of this is financial: Apple gets about 30% of the profit on any item that goes onto an iPhone. That’s apps and media sold through the iTunes store, and its licensed hardware products. That 30% Royalty :- The Lightning Port is the means by which Apple enforces this for hardware products. There are patents that cover Lightning, and in order to legally sell a Lightning product, you have to pay Apple. There’s also a digital “tag” chip in a Lightning connector that tells iOS information about the device, so it knows what to do with that device. When you connect a device to a Lightning port, there’s a bit of power and a few signals used to identify the device. But aside from that, it does nothing. The ID chip describes the attached device, and enables the connections necessary (power, USB, etc) in order to support the attached device. So even something as simple...

18,000mAh Li-ion battery, it offered 50 days  No one wanted it. This is the Energizer P18K Pop Smartphone… yup, a smartphone. With an 18,000mAh Li-ion battery, it offered 50 days of cellular standby time. Based on a mid-range MediaTek Helio P70 SOC and a moderate LCD resolution of 1080 x 2280 pixels, you might expect it to make it two weeks on a charge. My ZTE Axon 10 Pro manages a typical 3 days from a 4000mAhr battery, more DRAM, and a higher-end processor. That’s certainly brute-forcing it, but what other option do you have? iPhone 11 Pro is, by comparison This one, however, is real. This is the Blackview BV9100, which sports a 12000mAh built-in battery (labelled 13000mAh, but 12000mAh in testing), with 30W wired charging, in a rugged case. They sell this as an “outdoor smartphone.” It’s running the MediaTek Helio P35 processor, a low-end 8 core processor, all cores ARM Cortex A53, along with 4GiB RAM (LPDDR4X) and 64GB flash (eMMC). So certainly usable, and available for about ...