Pony.ai, a Toyota-backed self-driving car startup, will use its autonomous cars to deliver groceries. …read more Source:: CNet

Is history doomed to repeat itself? Or rather, is there really any doubt that it isn’t, considering recent events that made the news? I am of course talking about New Jersey’s call for COBOL programmers to fix their ancient unemployment system, collapsing under the application spikes caused by the COVID-19 lockdown. Soon after, other states…

Passengers on the International Space Station are seeing more traffic in orbit than ever before. …read more Source:: CNet

“Is BGP Safe Yet” is a new site that names and shames internet service providers that don’t tend to their routing. From a report: For more than an hour at the beginning of April, major sites like Google and Facebook sputtered for large swaths of people. The culprit wasn’t a hack or a bug. It…

Uber is expanding its delivery services as riders stay home. …read more Source:: CNet

So you don’t want to shell out the big bucks for premium noise-canceling headphones. Here are some affordable alternatives. …read more Source:: CNet

Also: naming the next PowerToys toy and a look at the latest Visual Studio preview Roundup As Microsoft finally named the date for the next version of its flagship operating system, the person in charge of its Windows Insider programme took a peep above the parapet in this week’s roundup of the Microsoft stories you…

Tech companies have been eyeing our wallets for years. Now they might just get them. …read more Source:: CNet

As coronavirus infections tore across the U.S. in early March, a Silicon Valley executive called the survival shelter manufacturer Rising S Co. He wanted to know how to open the secret door to his multimillion-dollar bunker 11 feet underground in New Zealand. From a report: The tech chief had never used the bunker and couldn’t…

Why would an electric pickup need to float? It’s not clear. But Musk says it will for a short period of time. …read more Source:: CNet