Are BMW, Intel, And Mobileye The New Dream Team For Automated Driving? and other top stories.

• Are BMW, Intel, And Mobileye The New Dream Team For Automated Driving?

  

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• Tesla crash raises concerns about autonomous vehicle regulation

  

  (Reuters) – The fatal crash of a Tesla Model S in Autopilot mode has turned up pressure on auto industry executives and regulators to ensure that automated driving technology is deployed safely. The first such known accident, which occurred in Florida in May, has highlighted tensions surrounding efforts to turn over responsibility for braking, steering and driving judgments to machines. It may delay the U.S. government’s plan to outline guidelines for self-driving cars this month. The cause of ..

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• Android Circuit: New Galaxy Note 7 Confirmations, Google Nexus Leaks, Samsung's Challenge To Apple

  

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• Sony Xperia X Performance review: $700 worth of disappointment

  

  HardwareEven though the X Performance is the most high-end of the four Xperia phones Sony plans to launch in the US, you wouldn't be able to tell just by looking at it. In fact, do yourself a favor: Don't put an Xperia X Performance down next to a regular Xperia X, because you'd probably never tell them apart. From the 5-inch, IPS LCD display up front to the 23-megapixel camera around back, these two devices are nearly identical. Well, until you spill a drink on them, at least. The X Performanc..

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• ¡Finalmente! Facebook makes it easier to post status updates in multiple languages

  

  Facebook today announced a new feature that makes it easier to publish status updates in multiple languages. Until now, you either had to post long updates that included all of the translations of the text or maybe post multiple updates — one for each language. Back in February, Facebook started testing a new feature that allowed Page owners to write a status update in multiple languages, and now the company is also starting to roll this out to individual users. Here is how this works in pract..

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• You can now ask Alexa to order millions of products on Amazon

  

  Through products like the Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, Amazon Tap, or Amazon Fire TV, you can now tell Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa to buy tens of millions of Amazon products. So Alexa owners can say “Alexa, order new Charmin toilet paper” or “Alexa, order me AAA batteries.” To buy items, just say “yes.” Before today, Alexa was only able to reorder previously ordered items or Amazon’s Choice products — and the little Echo Dot. At this time, Alexa’s product ordering is limited to Amazon Prime cust..

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• Many language-specific Google keyboards get Nougat support, theme support, and more

  

  ... The English alphabet only includes 26 different letters, but for many other languages that are not descendant from Latin, the number of valid characters is much larger. It turns out that this can make creating a keyboard that works well in those languages a bit difficult — imagine having a keyboard with hundreds or thousands of keys and you begin to get the picture. That's why Google has developed dedicated keyboard apps with alternative input methods specifically designed for languages..

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• Apple issues heated response to Spotify's 'anticompetitive' accusation letter

  

  If Apple versus FBI was the big story to start the year, then it looks like Apple versus Spotify will be the hot battle of the summer. Yesterday a letter surfaced in which Spotify accused Apple of being anticompetitive with its App Store policies and holding back a Spotify update in order to benefit Apple Music. This letter is likely what prompted Senator Elizabeth Warren’s negative remarks about Apple earlier this week. Now Apple is pushing back and without mincing words. Apple’s top lawyer Br..

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• Android's full-disk encryption just got much weaker—here's why

  

  Privacy advocates take note: Android's full-disk encryption just got dramatically easier to defeat on devices that use chips from semiconductor maker Qualcomm, thanks to new research that reveals several methods to extract crypto keys off of a locked handset. Those methods include publicly available attack code that works against an estimated 37 percent of enterprise users. A blog post published Thursday revealed that in stark contrast to the iPhone's iOS, Qualcomm-powered Android devices st..

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