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RoadshowNewsSelf-driving taxis hit SingaporeMove over Uber, the newest transport disruptor is here. On a trial basis, at least. Starting on Thursday, some residents of Singapore will be able to take taxi rides in self-driving cars. It's brought to the Asian nation by US-based nuTonomy. The Renault Zoe and Mitsubishi i-Miev taxis will be hailed using an invite-only app. Perhaps to help give peace of mind to all customers, a nuTonomy engineer will be in each car to make sure the ride is smooth and to take manual control if need be. It's a limited trial, though. These autonomous taxis, while free, will only commute through Singapore's one-north business district.The startup, which in May recei...

RoadshowNewsRoborace unveils self-driving Formula E race car prototype [embedded content] The perils of the high-speed racing circuit may one day no longer apply to human drivers, at least if Roborace and electric car inteational racing series Formula E has anything to say about it. Roborace has been working on a self-driving motorsport vehicle, aounced in November of last year, and now it's unveiled the prototype.Called the DevBot, it will be used to test and demonstrate the technology. "The primary purpose of the DevBot is to allow teams to develop their software and experience the hardware that will be used on the 'Robocar'," Roborace wrote on ...

Close Uber to start using self-driving cars this month, says report Drag First reported by Bloomberg, Uber will be testing out self-driving cars in downtown Pittsburgh, Pesylvania. Uber riders will be assigned autonomous Volvos XC90 SUVs at random. Don't fear -- an Uber engineer will be present at the wheel along with a pass...

Apple's Tim Cook tells The Washington Post about the "lonely" job of CEO. The Washingont Post/Screenshot by CNET For those of you who hold onto every word Tim Cook says, The Washington Post has about 10,000 to offer.Apple's CEO sat down with the Post for what it termed two "sprawling and highly self-reflective interviews" published Saturday that hit on topics ranging from losing and succeeding the late Steve Jobs, the company's recent fight with the FBI and who he tus to for advice.The Post prefaces the interview with a nice summary of what it covers. But we've also put together a few highlights:Mistakes: Aft...

Chris Urmson (right) shows a Google self-driving car to US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx (far left) and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt at Google headquarters last year. Urmson has aounced his departure from the project. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Google's self-driving car project is losing its CTO, and two other key employees are reportedly also leaving.Chris Urmson, the project's chief technical officer, aounced his departure on Medium on Friday. "After leading our cars through the human equivalent of 150 years of driving and helping our project make the leap from pure research to developing a pr...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageWhat does it say about you? Tinder Does being on Tinder say something about you?Or is it just a natural way to meet people and enjoy a little caal closeness once in a while?I am moved to ask this philosophical question by a new study from the University of North Texas. Presented at the American Psychological Association's Convention in Denver this week, the study looked at Tinder users and their sense of self-worth.The 1,044 women and 273 men (mean age 20.56) who took part were asked about their thighs, ...

Those of us who don't have pro photographers following us around snapping portraits from the most flattering angles often rely on shots taken via awkwardly placed selfie arm. But camera proximity can make your nose look bigger, your ears look smaller and your forehead look more slope-ey. Didn't realize selfies could do all that? Happy Monday! Enlarge Image Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Science The good news: computer scientists from Princeton University have developed a tool that corrects that common brand of selfie photo distortion that comes from getting up so close in your own mug. The to...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageDraymond Green. Not hacked. Ximo Pierto/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Technology encourages us to risk the risqué.A suggestive image here can be sent to there in but a snap.Things can and do go wrong, though.Golden State Warriors power forward Draymond Green is on his way to the Olympics to represent the US. He is, however, having to go via the doghouse.As CBS Sports reports, Green took an intimate self-portrait of what is sometimes referred to as one's "manhood" and sent it to Snapchat's My...

Enlarge ImageSome Australians ask for directions, yesterday. Getty Images Australia is changing from "down under" to "down under and across a bit".The country is shifting its longitude and latitude to fix a discrepancy with global satellite navigation systems. Govement body Geoscience Australia is updating the Geocentric Datum of Australia, the country's national coordinate system, to bring it in line with inteational data.The reason Australia is slightly out of whack with global systems is that the country moves about 7 centimetres (2.75 inches) per year due to the shifting of tectonic plates. Since 1994, wh...

Enlarge Image Tyler Lizenby/CNET Drinking on the job is now required -- if you're a beer know-it-all that is.The National Museum of American History in Washington D.C. is looking to hire a beer expert to conduct research for a new project called the American Brewing History Initiative. The job title sounds like every day would be a Friday night, but the position calls for a true beer historian with a deep knowledge of American business, food, culture and brewing (or a similar specialization). The museum is searching for someone who can write, and conduct interviews at a scholarly level, and not just have deep...

Enlarge ImageThe Trump tower of sound. Sound of Power Finally, you can get Donald Trump to say or sing whatever, whenever and wherever you want. Sound of Power is commemorating Trump's official nomination for president by the Republican Party by adding a bust of The Donald to its line of high-end speakers in the shape of some of the world's more controversial leaders. "It's with pride we present the final character in the Sound of Power series, Donald the Great. Offering you to play Donald like he's been playing you," reads the catty description of the speaker on the company website. "Donald the Great i...

RoadshowNewsFuture CarsDelivery company to trial self-driving vans in Japan DeNA Self-driving cars are the future, so why not use them to do our bidding? Yamato, a postal service in Japan, is hoping to do just that, as the company will next year trial self-driving delivery vehicles. It's partnering with IT company DeNA for the project, dubbed Roboneko Yamato. Roboneko Yamato will start its trial in March 2017. The testing phase will last a year, and will use two models of self-driving vehicles.While other major delivery companies, such as DHL, have given considerable thought to implementing a self-driving del...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustryWant to help the future of self-driving cars? Sign up for ChffrOh, da, somebody already took the useame 'Joeyjoejoe.' Bonus points if you get the reference. Comma.ai You don't have to be a billionaire investor to get involved with the development of self-driving cars. Thanks to George Hotz and his company, Comma.ai, all you need is a cell phone, a windshield mount and Hotz's own Chffr app.Chffr is available only for Android phones at the moment. After downloading it, mount your camera on the windshield and open the app. Chffr records your drive and watches along as you navigate around ...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustryFord pumps cash into company creating maps for self-driving carsDearbo's on a bit of a spending spree, but it's still cheaper than trying to do all this by itself. Bill Pugliano/Getty Images Knowing that the road ahead is best forged with teamwork, automakers are throwing serious money behind tech startups with an interest in self-driving cars. Ford is already deeply involved with these sorts of investments, but its portfolio is growing once again with an investment in a company building maps for self-driving cars.Civil Maps' goal is to create a set of high definition maps that self-dr...

Jack Daniel's 360 video features the making of charcoal, used to mellow whiskey. Jack Daniel's A bit too much whiskey might have you walking in circles, but with a new 360-degree video from the Jack Daniel's distillery, you can spin around as much as you want -- totally sober -- while getting a look at how the 150-year-old Teessee whiskey is made.Released this week, the video starts by taking viewers above the hills of Lynchburg, Teessee, (about an hour and a half south of Nashville) where the distillery is located. From there, it's down onto the Jack Daniel's premises, including inside the cave whose spring ...

While fishing in Poole, England on July 5, YouTuber Francis Darracott caught something much more impressive than a big fish. He reeled in a lost GoPro camera."It was covered in baacles and looked like it had been down there at least a year," Darracott said in his YouTube video. "Water had seeped through the housing."Sadly, even though the camera no longer worked due to water damage, its SD card survived and still stored some interesting footage filmed on Aug. 13, 2015.In the video Darracott uploaded on July 7, we see someone wearing the GoPro try to do a flip off a swimming pier but the camera falls off. The device then sinks to the bottom of the ocean and hits the sand with a th...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageOn the right, Hoda Kotb, the Marie Curie of selfie elbow. Hoda Kotb/Instagram screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Self-regard can never be achieved without self-sacrifice.This is something all the world's greatest egos have known and have insisted on telling all who will listen.It's poetic, then, that selfie-obsession has brought with it grief.It seems that frequent selfie takers are complaining of selfie elbow.The symptoms, not dissimilar to teis elbow, involve stiffness and pain from your hand to your e...

The machines feature everything from auto-steering capabilities to apps that tell farmers what's going on in their fields....

RoadshowNewsCar IndustryBMW, Intel, Mobileye hook up to bring self-driving cars to roadways by 2021Pictures from press conferences aren't always the most riveting. BMW Earlier, we reported on rumors that BMW and Intel were set to aounce an autonomous-car partnership. Well, it didn't take long for that rumor to become fact, and the pairing managed to become a threesome. Now, Mobileye joins Intel and BMW in an attempt to get fully autonomous cars on roads by 2021.Each member of the party brings something unique to the table. BMW obviously knows the automotive industry inside and out, Intel has its hands all up ...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageThis is extremely exciting. Virgin America When you get on a plane, there are a number of things you must do.First, check whether the person next to you is malodorous and might shortly bring out a laptop and elbow you while typing throughout the whole flight.Next and perhaps most important is to take a selfie.You know this is true, and now Virgin America wants you to create the most glorious selfie possible.The airline has just launched a Snapchat filter, one that promises to bring mood to your selfies."L...