Department of Motor Vehicles officials in Nevada said Monday they’ve issued Google the nation’s first license to test self-driving cars on public streets, after conducting demonstrations on the Las Vegas Strip and in Carson City that show the car is as safe — or perhaps safer — than a human. “It gets honked at more often because it’s being safe,” said Nevada DMV Director Bruce Breslow. Self-driving vehicle technology works like auto-pilot to guide a car — in this case a modified Prius — with little or no intervention from a human operator.
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Self-Driving Cars Set for Test Drive in Nevada
The Federal Communications Commission will auction 65 megahertz of spectrum to the highest bidder in the next three months for mobile broadband use, push deregulation and continue to offer incentives for companies to free up spectrum they are no longer using, the commission’s chairman said Tuesday. In his annual address to the convention of CTIA-The Wireless Association, held this year in New Orleans, Julius Genachowski called for using “new tools to solve new problems.” Cashing In “Auctions have been a huge success,” the chairman said, according to a transcript of his remakes on the FCC Web site. “Pioneered in America, they have raised over $50 billion for the Treasury and unleashed hundreds of billions of dollars in benefits for our economy.
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FCC Chairman Addresses Spectrum Crunch at CTIA
AT&T Inc. will start selling home automation and security services nationwide, taking on incumbents led by Tyco International Ltd.’s ADT.
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AT&T Barges into Home Security and Automation
Always check to whom you might be entrusting your data before deciding to work with any cloud computer-storage service.
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Check Out Your Cloud Service Providers, Experts Advise
Tired of feeling “like the walking dead” but worried about the cost of a doctor’s visit, Amber Young sat on her bed near tears one recent Friday night in Woodbury, Minn.
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Virtual Doctor Visits Catch on with Insurers, Employers
A Sikh advocacy group launched a free mobile application Monday that allows travelers to complain immediately to the government if they feel they’ve been treated unfairly by airport screeners. Launched at midnight by The Sikh Coalition, the FlyRights app had fielded two complaints by 10 a.m. EDT Monday
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Mobile App Helps Report Unfair Airport Screeners
A published report says Apple Inc. uses subsidiaries in Ireland, the Netherlands and other low-tax nations as part of a strategy that enables the technology giant to cut its global tax bill by billions of dollars every year. The New York Times on Sunday outlined legal methods used by Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple to avoid paying billions of dollars in federal and state taxes.
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Report: Apple Legally Sidesteps Billions in Taxes
The cola wars are escalating on the social-media front. With its launch [of] Pepsi Pulse, a pop culture destination on Pepsi.com, the snack-food giant aims to be a major player in conversations on Facebook, Twitter and other social sites such as Pinterest
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Social Media Is New Marketing Battleground for Colas
Yahoo plans to double its Olympics presence this summer, aiming to be the top Web site for the fourth straight Games. Yahoo is sending 25 people from around the world to cover the Summer Games in London — about “twice as big” as it had in the Winter Games — including U.S. gold medal winners Shannon Miller and Dan O’Brien and many of its sports columnists and reporters
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Yahoo: Your Summer Olympic Online Destination
Everyone wants to run their games on maximum settings, but as games become increasingly more beautiful they also become exponentially more demanding and such desires become difficult to maintain. Framerates suffer considerably when increasing settings to levels higher than your hardware can support, and we’re going to go out on a limb here and say that like us, you probably don’t upgrade your graphics card every few months. For a measly $1,000 (yes, that was sarcasm), you can get your hands on the fastest, and most powerful graphics card available, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 690.
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NVIDIA Unleashes the Beast, the ‘World’s Fastest Graphics Card’
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