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The Latest on Tesla’s plans for fully-autonomous vehicles (all times local): 12:45 p.m. Tesla CEO Elon Musk says laser imaging sensors used by nearly all other autonomous vehicle developers are not needed. The sensors called Lidar send out light beams that detect objects in the dark and other poor conditions. Many experts consider them essential, […]

Facebook’s stunning year of scandals seems to have driven up the price tag of Mark Zuckerberg’s safety. According to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing released Friday, the CEO was paid $10 million in 2018 through a pre-tax allowance “to cover additional costs related to his and his family’s personal security.” That includes “personnel, equipment, services,

SHANGHAI — The electric-car maker Tesla said on Monday that it had sent a team to investigate why one of its cars appeared to spontaneously combust in Shanghai over the weekend, an incident that the authorities said left no one hurt but has raised fresh questions about the safety of the company’s cars. The explosion

Virtual reality has been described in recent years as the future of gaming. Headsets like the Playstation VR, Oculus Rift and HTC VIVE have moved the technology on, but have failed to break into the mainstream. Now Nintendo is bringing out a special range of its cardboard Labo kits. Newsbeat’s gaming reporter Steffan Powell has

Tesla CEO Elon Musk appears poised to transform the companys electric cars into driverless vehicles in a risky bid to realize a bold vision that he has been floating for years. The technology required to make that quantum leap is scheduled to be shown off to Tesla investors Monday at the companys Palo Alto, California,

As Facebook, YouTube and Twitter continue a slow purge of users who violate their policies prohibiting hate speech, some extremists kicked off those platforms have found a safe space on TikTok, the Chinese-made video-sharing app that’s become wildly popular among Generation Z. Facebook banned Faith Goldy, a Canadian white nationalist, from its site earlier this

Sri Lanka blocked several social media networks in the wake of terrorist attacks on Sunday, including Facebook and the messaging service WhatsApp. The extraordinary step reflects growing global concern, particularly among governments, about the capacity of American-owned networks to spin up violence. YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat and Viber were also inaccessible, according to internet monitoring groups.

BBC Click’s Paul Carter looks at some of the week’s best technology stories including: Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange was arrested by police in London after Ecuador withdrew his asylum. The first home delivery drone service has been launched in Australia, after years of test flights. Supermarket giant Walmart is to deploy autonomous machines across thousands

Sri Lankan authorities flicked the off switch on most social media after on churches and hotels killed hundreds of people, a dramatic reaction that reflects accumulated distrust in the capability of American internet companies to control harmful content. The block on social media including Facebook and its WhatsApp and Instagram services was announced by the

In early 2018, nearly two years after Facebook’s historically botched performance in the 2016 presidential election, the social media giant was still grappling with the fallout. It had yet to fully realize ― let alone stymie ― the scope of Russian disinformation efforts on its platform. Its users were sharing less and less. It was