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President Donald Trump issued a full pardon for former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski early Wednesday, one of 143 people who received pardons and

Jan 20, 2021 Phantom Auto’s systems remotely steer autonomous or semi-autonomous delivery robots, forklifts and yard trucks when human intervention is needed. By Brian Blum, ISRAEL21c Phantom Auto was all set to shake up the world of self-driving cars. The company, co-founded by Shai Magzimof, Ohad Dvir and Elliot Katz with headquarters in Silicon Valley and R&D in Tel Aviv, had identified a serious problem for the future of autonomous vehicles – if something went wrong, who would take the wheel? What if there wasn’t even a wheel to take? Phantom Auto’s solution: tele-operation, a cal...

Trump managed to wedge in a pardon for Anthony Levandowski, the engineer charged with fleeing Google for Uber with trade secrets in tow and got caught up in a massive lawsuit between those two pillars of Silicon Valley. All that and more in The Morning Shift for January 20, 2021. Advertisement 1st Gear: Levandowski Pardoned This is a pardon favored by old buddy of Elon Musk Peter Thiel, so I’m wary of it for a couple of reasons. Our sister site Gizmodo reports: President Donald Trump issued a full pardon for former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski early Wednesday, one of 143 people who r...

January 11, 2021 Apple Automaker Hyundai revised its statement twice in several hours on a tie-up with Apple for developing self-driving cars. Following a report by Bloomberg that Apple will take at least five years to launch a self-driving car, Hyundai released a statement to CNBC that it is one of the several global automakers to be in discussions with Apple. The Economic Daily claims that Apple is considering to work with Hyundai to manufacture the Apple car and develop the batteries. Hours later, Hyundai revised its statement that it has been "receiving requests for potential cooperation ...

A slew of reports and even analyst statements have further confirmed that Apple's ambitions towards the automotive market back on full steam.