Technology

FRANKFURT — Ford Motor Company and Volkswagen are expected to sign an agreement as soon as next week to share the cost of developing autonomous vehicles and producing electric cars, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions. The agreement, likely to be approved by Volkswagen’s supervisory board on Thursday, would deepen an existing […]

Television is over the moon about the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. NASA’s moon landing was seen live on TV in July 1969. Networks and cable channels are airing documentaries and programs to mark the anniversary. The programs include a marathon repeat of HBO’s 1998 miniseries “From the Earth to the Moon” on

LONDON — Britain’s competition regulator said on Friday that it had begun an investigation into a $575 million investment led by Amazon in the London-based food-delivery service Deliveroo, the latest effort by a government to potentially check the reach of a technology giant. In an order, the country’s Competition and Markets Authority said it had

Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday its operating profit for the last quarter likely fell more than 56% from a year earlier amid a weak market for memory chips. The South Korean tech giant estimated an operating profit of 6.5 trillion won ($5.5 billion) for the April-June quarter, which would represent a 56.3% drop from the

Episode 6: ‘The End of the Line’ Producer/Director Alyse Shorland With its focus on a future of self-driving cars and renewable fuels, General Motors is leaving some manufacturing plants like the one in Lordstown, Ohio, in its rearview. Workers who spent a lifetime at the plant — and constructed their lives around G.M. as they

An estimated 4 million people across Africa live with dementia, according to the latest figures by Alzheimer’s Disease International. It’s an incurable condition that affects people’s mental abilities, including memory. VR Revival is a health technology start-up aiming to improve the quality of life and care for those with dementia with a new virtual reality

The BBC technology programme Click has created a fully interactive News show to mark their 1,000 episode. Viewers can choose what direction the episode goes in, with multiple options given at each step and there are several million possible routes that the viewer can experience. Read more about how the show was made See more

BBC Click’s Lara Lewington looks at some of the week’s best technology stories including: The Church of England releases its first guidelines for social media users New electric cars are required to emit noises while reversing or moving slowly under a new EU rule An artist creates interactive artworks which you can poke and inflate

The most effective way to fight global warming is to plant lots of trees, a study says. A trillion of them, maybe more. And there’s enough room, Swiss scientists say. Even with existing cities and farmland, there’s enough space for new trees to cover 3.5 million square miles (9 million square kilometers), they reported in

France’s lower house of parliament has approved a pioneering tax on internet giants like Google, Amazon and Facebook. The bill adopted Thursday aims to stop multinationals from avoiding taxes by setting up headquarters in low-tax EU countries. Currently, the companies pay nearly no tax in countries where they have large sales like France. The bill