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Volkswagen Invests $2.6 Billion in Self-Driving Startup to Develop Its Autonomous Vehicles Volkswagen has been trying to enter the lucrative self-driving vehicles market for quite some time now. We have seen the companypartnering with Nvidiato use the Drive IX platform for its vehicles. Now, the automakers are looking to develop their vehicles by investing $2.6 billion in Argo AI, a startup that builds high-end self-driving tech for autonomous vehicles. The Pittsburg-based startup,Argo AI, came into being back in 2016 aiming to build self-driving technology that can benefit everyone and make moving around cities easier than ever....

You Have to Take Permission to Embed Instagram Posts, Rules US Judge News websites and bloggers from every genre, be it tech or entertainment, embed Instagram posts from various creators in their articles and posts. Until recently, it wasn’t an issue as the embedded post leads to the creator’s Instagram profile. However, according to a new law, publishers and writers need to get appropriate permissions from an Instagram creator before even embedding their content in their posts or articles....

Amazon Removes Racist Images in AirPods Listing After Criticism Amazon received a hell lot of backlash from netizens last week. This is because it showed racist images on some of the product listings on their website. When customers searched for products like the AirPods and other similar headphones, the listings, instead of showing images of the products, showed images with racial slurs. Amazon has removed the questionable listings from its US and UK websites....

Amazon’s Crucible Retiring Two Game Modes Merely Two Weeks After Launch Amazon’s team-based shooter Cruciblemade its debutearlier last month and it hasn’t been off to a great start. The player base is dwindling within two weeks of launch but it looks like the developers may have a solution at hand. Crucible will scale back on the content present in the game, starting with two of the game modes. Crucible, for those unaware, is a MOBA-like team-based shooter....

Apple Open-Sources ‘Password Manager Resources’ for Developers Apple hasopen-sourced a set of tools for developers as part of its Password Manager Resources projectin an effort to increase the compatibility ofpassword managersacross popular websites. “The Password Manager Resources open source project allows you to integrate website-specific requirements used by the iCloud Keychain password manager to generate strong, unique passwords.The project also contains collections of websites known to share a sign-in system, links to websites’ pages where users change passwords, and more,” explains Apple....

Apple Retains Lead in Global Smartwatch Market as Huawei Rises to Number 2 Huawei has reportedly gone past Samsung to become the second-largest smartwatch vendor globally. In its latest ‘Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker’ report released this week, IDC said that16.9 million units of smartwatches were shipped during Q1, down 7.1% year-on-year. Apple retained its leadership in the segment with 4.4 million units, while Huawei and Samsung came in at numbers two and three, respectively, with 2....

Apple Working on Shortcuts to Change Keyboard Brightness on iPad Apple’siPadOStook a big step towards making the iPad line-up a good portable computer replacement. However, there are still some issues in both the software and the hardware that need to be sorted out. For starters, the iPad keyboard doesn’t have a row of function keys. This means if you want to adjust the screen brightness of your iPad you are dependent on the Control Center....