According to a source close to Renault, the company’s chairman Jean-Dominique Senard will sit on Nissan’s new appointments committee, and CEO Thierry Bollore will sit on the audit committee Renault announced Thursday that it had reached an agreement with its partner Nissan on the Japanese carmaker’s governance overhaul, paving the way for the French company… read more »
Shares of Slack jumped after the company made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange through a direct listing Software company Slack Technologies climbed on the New York Stock Exchange Thursday after entering in a direct listing in the latest sign of Wall Street’s appetite for new technology entrants. Shares of the company, whose… read more »
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Bank of England Governor Mark Carney is open to the idea of letting new payment services such as Facebook’s upcoming Libra hold funds with the central bank—something previously limited to commercial banks. Carney is to tell an audience of bankers in London later Thursday it “makes sense to consider” whether new… read more »
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Google workers, labor advocates, and local community members rallied outside parent company Alphabet Inc.’s annual meeting of company shareholders here on Wednesday, calling on the technology company to change its labor practices. Employees, including several who presented investor-backed proposals inside the meeting, called on Google to listen to its workforce following… read more »
This research outcome shows that robots can be intuitively taught to be flexible by humans, as it was not accomplished through numerical calculation or programming of the robot’s movements. Credit: Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) Dr. Kee-hoon Kim’s team at the Center for Intelligent & Interactive Robotics of the Korea Institute of Science… read more »
German holidaymakers may find it harder than planned to get to the beach in July German cabin crew union UFO called Thursday for a strike against airline giant Lufthansa in July, threatening travel chaos during the busy summer holiday season over a wage dispute. Employees of Lufthansa’s subsidiaries Eurowings and Germanwings are expected to vote… read more »
Two-liter four-cylinder prechamber gas engine on the test bench in Empa’s engine lab. Credit: Empa At the end of May, the final meeting of the “Horizon 2020” project “GasOn” with the EU Commission took place in Brussels. The aim of this EU project was the further development of gas engines for cars and vans. Around… read more »
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield poses for photos outside the New York Stock Exchange before his company’s IPO, Thursday, June 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) Shares of work messaging platform Slack are expected to start trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker “WORK.” The San Francisco company is set to start trading Thursday… read more »
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers from CSIRO’s Data61, the data and digital specialist arm of Australia’s national science agency, have developed a world-first set of techniques to effectively ‘vaccinate’ algorithms against adversarial attacks, a significant advancement in machine learning research. Algorithms ‘learn’ from the data they are trained on to create a machine learning model… read more »
In this May 8, 2019, file photo, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 jetliner being built for Turkish Airlines takes off on a test flight in Renton, Wash. Boeing announced its first order for 737 Max jets this week since two deadly crashes of the jet, and says it is in discussions with several other customers… read more »