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RoadshowNewsCar IndustryMichigan could soon legalize fully driverless carsEnlarge ImageGoogle and other companies have a number of autonomous vehicles on public roads already, but by law, they must include a driver ready to take control. Google Without a national framework, some states like Califoia and Michigan have taken the lead and drafted up regulations for testing autonomous vehicles on public roads, albeit with drivers standing by in the front seat. But Michigan's about to take it one step further and address a bill that could allow cars without drivers on public roads.The state Senate's Economic Develo...

Uber has hired Target's chief marketing officer to help the ride-hailing company boost its global brand.Jeff Jones is jumping ship from Target to Uber. Target Jeff Jones will joining the San Francisco-based startup as president of ridesharing, making him responsible for Uber's operations, marketing and customer support globally, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said in a company blog post Tuesday. Jones succeeds Ryan Graves, Uber's first employee and first CEO, who will remain with the company as its "resident entrepreneur." Jones' focus at Uber will be to "fuse" its marketing efforts with its global operations, Ka...

Alphabet executive David Drummond has left Uber's board over conflict of interest conces. Alphabet The race to put autonomous vehicles on the road has apparently cost one Alphabet executive his seat on Uber's board of directors.David Drummond, Alphabet's senior vice president of corporate development, resigned from the ride-hailing startup's board several weeks ago amid rising conces over conflict of interests. Drummond, who had been on Uber's board since 2013, helped oversee Google's $250 million venture-capital investment in Uber that same year.Drummond confirmed his departure from Uber's board in an stateme...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageWhere on the dashboard is its moral compass? KAREN BLEIER/AFP/GettyImages I think of morality as a feather that shifts in the wind and occasionally brushes your face delightfully as it falls to earth.I'm still perturbed, however, whether technology has a fine grasp of it. Or whether it can.I'm moved by the news that Uber has launched its driverless vehicles in Pittsburgh. It crossed my mind whether these cars have already been programmed whom to kill if they face a moral dilemma.For example, the car is abo...

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, ...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustryHack in a box: Two thieves steal more than 30 cars using a laptopABC13 declined to mention what kinds of Jeep and Dodge vehicles were stolen in this spree, but given the limited number of Jeep models on the market, I figured a Grand Cherokee would be a fine picture to include. Jeep Back in the day, if you wanted to steal some cars, you may have only needed a coat hanger, a screwdriver and a rudimentary understanding of wiring. These days, it's significantly more complicated, but that's not about to stop criminals. It certainly didn't stop two men, who allegedly stole more than 30 Jeep ...

Here are 10 incredibly high-performance racecars that you can buy directly from automakers. You won't find one on your dealer's lot, though -- you'll have to order it....

The idea that robots might someday be capable of creating fuiture (or basic structures) is a step closer to reality. Designer Maria Yablonina's thesis project showed off a pair of robots creating a spiderweb-like, carbon fiber object that can hold a human.We're also loving the most recent test jouey of TEB-1, a massive elevated bus made to pass over carsstuck on congested roads. It can hold about 300 people, and other traffic-challenged govements are already expressing interest in the project. ...

RoadshowNews10 production racecars you can buyPorsche 911 GT3 RS The Porsche 911 GT3 has been around since 1999 in an assortment of variations, wiing championship and endurance races like the American Le Mans Series and the 24 Hours Nürburgring. The most recent iteration -- the 2016 Porsche 911 GT3 RS -- debuted at the Geneva Inteational Motor Show in 2015 and has even more impressive performance than the last version of the GT3. Equipped with what Porsche claims is the maximum amount of street-legal motorsport technology, the GT3 RS has a zero-to-60 mph time of 3.1 seconds and can lap the Nürburgring Nordschleife in 7 minutes, 20 seconds. Powered by a six-cylinder engine with 500 horsepo...

If you figured there was little chance Nick Denton was going to pay Hulk Hogan the millions of dollars he was awarded in a legal smackdown earlier this year, it's begiing to look like you were right.The founder and CEO of the online media company Gawker on Monday filed for personal bankruptcy protection, listing Terry Bollea, aka the former professional wrestler Hogan, as his largest creditor. Bollea was awarded $140 million by a Florida jury trial in March after claiming Gawker violated his privacy in 2012 when it published a sex tape involving him and the now-estranged wife of a friend. Denton's Chapter 11 petition filed with the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southe District of New York li...

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...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustryDaimler puts money behind high-end Uber competitor BlacklaneEverybody's investing in ridesharing companies, while I'm just sitting here wishing somebody would give me $11 million. John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images There must be some hip, secret society of automakers where the only admission is an investment in a new-age ridesharing outfit. If that thing I just made up were actually true, Daimler would be the president of that club. And, what do you know, it's investing in another ridesharing company.Daimler led the largest yet round of funding for Blacklane, a ridesharing startup based ...

Enlarge Image Uber Uber has for years been the ultimate global disruptor, besting competing taxi services around the world. However, it may soon concede defeat in China.The company's Chinese business will be sold to local rival Didi Chuxing, according to a report from Bloomberg. Uber will own a 20 percent stake in the $35 billion combined company, reports the publication. "Uber and Didi Chuxing are investing billions of dollars in China and both companies have yet to tu a profit there," wrote Uber CEO Travis Kalanick in a blog post Bloomberg obtained. "Getting to profitability is the only way to build a susta...

Enlarge Image Screenshot by Michelle Starr/CNET The latest victim in a long line of high-profile twitter attacks is the CEO of Pokemon Go developer Niantic, John Hanke. On July 31, a series of Tweets was posted to Hanke's 16,000 followers. They were hashtagged "OurMine" and claimed the hack was for Brazil, where Pokemon Go has yet to be released.One tweet also claimed that Hanke's password was "nopass," but the Quora links to the hacker's explanations have been removed. Interestingly, OurMine is a company that claims to assess social network account security, so the hack seems like a marketing stunt, directin...

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...