Microsoft’s autonomous gliders seek out thermal updrafts to stay aloft Microsoft wants to build autonomous tech for aircraft that require little to no power to fly. It just completed tests in the Nevada desert of gliders equipped with self-guidance systems that help them track regions of rising hot air and predict their movement, with the aim …

Workday acquires the team behind Pattern, a young startup founded by ex-Googlers The team behind Pattern, a two- year-old, Redwood City, Ca.- based startup, has been quietly acquired by…

Fiat Chrysler joins BMW, Intel and Mobileye in developing self-driving platform The joint effort by Mobileye, Intel and BMW to develop an autonomous driving platform that can be used by other automakers has a new partner: Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA).

Apple said to be spending $1 billion on original content in 2018 Apple’s ambitions around creating original content seem set to grow: The Wall Street Journal reports that it has a budget of around $1 billion to spend on creating its own programming next year.