Month: July 2017

San Francisco-based transportation network company Lyft announced today (7/21/2017) that it is setting up its own facility to develop autonomous vehicle technology. While Lyft has partnered with well-known tech companies and automakers that are making self-driving cars, the ride-hailing service perhaps enticed by predictions of a $7 trillion autonomous driving industry, sees an opportunity to make the software and hardware themselves to enable a car to be autonomous. Raj Kapoor, chief strategy officer at Lyft, said they were motivated to take on autonomous design in order to stay competitive in the rapidly evolving field of automation and undoubtedly to...

With the Russian scandal, and President Trump’s perceived reluctance to really prioritize going after the alleged Russian state run attempt to hack and obfuscate our 2016 elections, there appear to be no counter measures to dissuade this bad cyber behavior.  But according to a Daily Beast investigation, Microsoft has been stealthily waging a counter-attack against the cyber espionage group known as Fancy Bear for about a year.  American cyber security company CrowdStrike, which has been involved in response efforts to several high-profile hackings, has said with a medium level of confidence that Fancy Bear is associated with Russia’s covert military intelligence agency known as...