What to Say to Your Friend Who Thinks Robots Are Taking Over…
You might be right. The next contender in the automated driving and artificial intelligence world is Toyota. The car company announced last week that they would be putting $1 billion over the next five years into artificial intelligence and research. They are creating this new company called Toyota Research Institute Inc. Their hope for the company is to focus on automated cars that can help avoid crashes. Toyota spokesperson John Hanson says, “There are some people who are looking at autonomous driving as the end goal. It is definitely off in the future. What we want to do is we want to start saving lives immediately.” While we’re not sure when we no longer have to drive our cars, it could be soon – especially if Toyota, Google, Uber, GM and others decide to tackle this opportunity together. Reminder: they are all trying to do this.. (Source CNN)
Quote of the Day: “Step Aside Waze.”
Google Maps might knock Waze down with it’s most recent iOS update. Waze is a community based navigation app that allows users to report real-time traffic updates and provide alternative routes. Google Maps decided they needed to up their traffic report game. The app will now tell you when you are about to reach traffic or delays and give you a traffic summary at the beginning of your trip. This is a sibling rivalry as Google owns Waze. An adult version of “that’s my toy!” (Source CNN)
In Case You Missed It…
Everyone’s favorite private picture messaging app, Snapchat, is popular. Like really, really popular. The app has reached 6 billion views a day. This number is trailing closely behind Facebook’s 8 billion a day. In May, the company had about 2 billion views a day so they are expanding fast. Confusion arises to what Snapchat considers a view though. Users don’t have to watch a full video for it to be a view, the just simply have to load it and open it. How many views a day are you contributing to the app? (Source MSN)
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