If you like riding a bike around San Francisco, you may want to be on the lookout for a new menace: self-driving Uber cars. The ride-hailing giant, who started testing its self-driving cars in its hometown last week has confessed that its technology has a “problem” with the way it crosses bike lanes. An Uber Technologies Inc. spokesman ...

Drone-delivered Slurpees are now a thing. Convenience store giant 7-Eleven and drone delivery firm Flirtey Inc. announced Tuesday that they have made 77 deliveries via drone to customers in Reno, Nev. The two companies made their first test delivery back in July before expanding the trial in November to more customers. Orders, which were restricted to a “dozen select customers,” ...

France is set to lead the world in postal delivery services, as the country’s post office for the first time is deploying drones to regularly deliver parcels. DPDgroup, the international express subsidiary of Le Groupe La Poste, France’s postal service, has been granted authorization by the French government’s civil aviation division to deliver parcels using drones ...

Satellite internet startup OneWeb Ltd. Monday said it has raised $1.2 billion in private equity in a round led by Japanese telecommunications firm Softbank Group Corp. Founded in 2012, OneWeb has set its sights on the lofty goal of deploying a constellation of micro-satellites to provide ubiquitous low-latency, high-speed global internet access. The company is developing its own ...

BlackBerry Ltd. is the latest company to make a move into the self-driving car business, as the once-great mobile phone maker launched an autonomous driving research center on Monday. While BlackBerry’s decision to abandon making mobile phones in favor of developing software is well-known, what isn’t as well known is that one of the company’s ...

The Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has started to roll out blockchain technology to secure state databases to prevent them from being hacked. Said to be the first use of the blockchain for governance in Asia, the new platform has already been rolled out on a pilot basis in two state government departments, Civil Supplies ...

A new study has found that while Automattic Inc.’s WordPress content management system continues to have security flaws, they’re not as bad as commonly thought. German security firm RIPS Technologies GmbH analyzed all 47,959 plugins that are available from the official WordPress repository using its static code analyzer and found that only 8,800 of the plugins had ...

An inquiry by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board following the crash of Facebook Inc.’s Aquila drone back in June has determined the cause: wind and software failure. The maiden flight of the solar-powered Aquila drone, which has a wingspan roughly equivalent to a Boeing 737, was initially praised by Facebook as having been a success but was subsequently ...

2016 can’t end quickly enough in the land of corporate security. LinkedIn Inc.-owned online learning provider Lynda.com disclosed over the weekend that it was hacked, with the personal details of some 9.5 million users being accessed. On a bright note, if there can be for such occurrences, only a small number of hacked accounts included ...

General Motors Corp. will begin testing its own self-driving cars in Michigan following the state’s decision to legalize the operation of autonomous vehicles, the company announced Thursday. Testing of GM’s autonomous Chevrolet Bolt EV had been underway at GM’s Technical Center campus in Warren, Mich., but the new legislation will allow it to expand the ...