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Apple Aims At Debuting Car In 2024

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Apple is advancing its self-driving car project, according to a Reuters report, and will look at debuting a new product by 2024 that could also come with new battery technology. Project Titan, the Apple automotive effort, has been working on a self-driving vehicle sporadically since 2014, working from scratch.

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The Rise Of Subscriptions Amid The Pandemic 

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And Apple went live with its big yearly autumn event to unveil its newest technology offerings, with the Apple Watches and Apple One subscription taking center stage. 68%: Projected compound annual growth rate of the subscription commerce industry through 2025. All this, Today in Data. 57%: Share of U.K.

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Apple HomePod Plans 2019 Chinese Debut

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Apple ’s HomePod wireless speaker is set to go on sale in China next year, beating Amazon and Google speaker offerings into the country. According to Bloomberg , Apple’s website in China added a banner announcing that the speaker will go on sale in “early 2019.” and other countries. to launch in China.

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Samsung: Wearables Sales Soared 30 Pct In 2020

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Wearable device sales have shot up at least 30 percent this year as consumers looked to technology to help them monitor their health during the ongoing global pandemic, according to a top Samsung executive. Samsung will continue to invest in these advanced technologies.”. Samsung will face strong competition from Apple.

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Verizon And Samsung Target 2019 For U.S. Release Of 5G Smartphones

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The move would essentially beat Apple to the market with smartphones featuring 5G technology, because reports say that Apple is going to wait until 2020 to release the first iPhones featuring the tech. The delay could prove to be fortuitous for Verizon and Samsung, as the companies fight for Apple’s customers.

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Mobileye Expands Self-Driving Vehicle Tests To Detroit, Tokyo, Paris, Shanghai

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The selection of the cities had a lot to do with putting the vehicles near our customers so that they would all have the opportunity to experience the technology firsthand because we expect our OEM customers to continue to be an important part of our business going forward, even as we supply a complete self-driving system.”.

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Augmented Reality Growth Fueled by Chinese Investments

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One of the new realities of augmented reality is this: the technology is attracting more investment from China than from sources in North America. According Digi-Capital , which tracks AR investments, China-based funding for augmented reality and computer vision technologies hit $3.9

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