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Apple targets car production by 2024 and eyes 'next level' battery technology: report

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  Apple Inc is moving forward with self-driving car technology and is targeting 2024 to produce a passenger vehicle that could include its own breakthrough battery technology, people familiar with the matter told   Reuters . The iPhone maker's automotive efforts, known as Project Titan, have proceeded unevenly since 2014 when it  first started  to design its own vehicle from scratch. At one point, Apple drew back the effort to focus on software and reassessed its goals. Doug Field, an Apple veteran who had worked at Tesla Inc, returned to oversee the project in 2018 and laid off 190 people from the team in 2019. Since then, Apple has progressed enough that it now aims to build a vehicle for consumers, two people familiar with the effort said, asking not to be named because Apple's plans are not public. Apple's goal of building a personal vehicle for the mass market contrasts with rivals such as Alphabet Inc's Waymo, which has built robo-taxis to carry passengers for ...
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E-scooters: What are the rules and can they be safer?

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  E-scooters are legal on roads in many countries, but until recently they could only be used on private land in the UK. Trials to see how  rental e-scooters could be used on UK roads , within set geographical boundaries, began in July. There have been concerns about safety for both the rider and others, but some e-scooter companies are taking measures to try to resolve these issues.
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Zuckerberg not worried

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  In a post on Facebook’s internal discussion platform, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told employees he did not anticipate “any impact on individual teams or roles” as a result of the lawsuits, which he said were “one step in a process which could take years to play out in its entirety”. Comments were turned off for Zuckerberg’s post, as well as for other posts on the lawsuits shared by Newstead and Chief Privacy Officer for Product Michel Protti. Newstead also warned employees not to post about the cases. Facebook did not immediately respond to questions about the posts. Zuckerberg told employees in July that Facebook would “go to the mat” to fight a legal challenge to break up the company, calling it an “existential” threat, according to an audio of internal company meetings published by The Verge.
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Oracle is moving its headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas

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  Oracle is the latest tech company to move its headquarters out of California. The company said on Friday it’s moving its headquarters from the Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas. Oracle is one of Silicon Valley’s older success stories, founded in Santa Clara in 1977. It moved into its current headquarters in 1989. Several of the buildings on its campus there are constructed in the shape of a squat cylinder, which is the classic symbol in computer systems design for a database, the product on which Oracle built its empire. The coronavirus pandemic has given a number of tech companies and prominent Silicon Valley figures an excuse to exit California. Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced earlier this month that it will relocate its headquarters from San Jose, California, to Houston, Texas. Data analytics software company Palantir Technologies also moved its headquarters to Denver, Colorado from Palo Alto, California, earlier this year. Tesla and SpaceX chief Elon Musk also confirmed th...
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