[ad_1] Driverless cars could be hacked and deployed as “fully loaded weapons,” according to the chief executive of BlackBerry. Best known for its smartphones, the company is developing software for driverless cars in partnership with Baidu, the Chinese web search giant. John Chen, BlackBerry’s chief executive, said driverless cars were programmed with more lines of…
[ad_1] On May 16, Makani released a YouTube video. A camera pans on a T-shaped airplane, with wings stretching 85 feet holding eight small turbines and a tether connecting it to a tall ground station. The plane swoops into the air. It dips and soars, looping elegantly in circles that mimic a windmill, something it was built to replace. For…
[ad_1] Larry Page’s dream of using technology to fix cities may come to Canada first. Sidewalk Labs LLC, the urban innovation unit of Page’s Alphabet Inc., has applied to develop a 12-acre strip in downtown Toronto, according to two people familiar with the plans. Details of the proposal are private, but these people said the…
[ad_1] In 2013, Google ran its first tests for Project Loon, an ambitious effort to circulate broadband-emitting balloons across the globe. On Thursday, the company said that’s not necessary anymore. Executives at the project said they have found ways to run the program with fewer balloons. Rather than building a worldwide network, the team will…