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  • FILE PHOTO -The rear of a Lexus SUV equipped with Google self-driving sensors is seen during a media preview of Google's prototype autonomous vehicles in Mountain View, California September 29, 2015. REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage/File Photo

    Self-Drivings Cars May Change Where You Want to Live

    By Deborah Findling, CNBC

    Menlo Ventures managing director Venky Ganesan says that urban spaces will change dramatically once self-driving cars become widespread. "The average house is roughly 3,000 sq ft and it's been going...

  • Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin poses for a portrait wearing Google Glass glasses before the Diane von Furstenberg Spring/Summer 2013 collection show during New York Fashion Week in this September 9, 2012 file photo. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/Files

    Remember Google Glass? It's Not a Flop After All

    By Christina Farr, CNBC

    Google Glass isn't dead. In fact, it's a growing business. That's according to developers who license the smart glasses technology from Google Glass' enterprise-focused " Glass at Work " program...

  • Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk talks at the Automotive World News Congress at the Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan, January 13, 2015. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook

    Tesla Is Now Worth More Than Ford as It Shares Surge Higher

    By Robert Ferris, CNBC

    Tesla shares hit an all-time high on Monday, after the electric carmaker announced strong first-quarter delivery numbers Sunday that outpaced analysts' expectations. Tesla shares surged as high as $...

  • File photo of Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk standing on the podium as he attends a forum on startups in Hong Kong

    Why China Is a Big Part of Tesla’s Future

    By Evelyn Cheng

    Elon Musk's Tesla is a growing player in China, where the global fight to develop electric, self-driving cars is raging hot. Hong-Kong traded Tencent, a company best known for its WeChat messaging...

  • FILE PHOTO: A Tesla charging station is seen in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. on September 28, 2017. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo

    The New Tesla Model 3 Could be the Safest Car Ever

    By Robert Ferris, CNBC

    Tesla's Model 3 sedan could end up being significantly safer than the average car currently on the road, according to Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas. And customer preferences suggest that level of...

  • First U.S. case of deadly MERS virus confirmed: CDC

    First U.S. case of deadly MERS virus confirmed: CDC

    By Julie Steenhuysen and Sharon Begley, Reuters

    (Reuters) - A healthcare worker who had traveled to Saudi Arabia was confirmed as the first U.S. case of Middle East Respiratory Virus (MERS), an often fatal illness, raising new concerns about the...

  • Opposition to FCC’s Net Neutrality Rule Grows

    By Rob Garver

    The FCC’s proposal to allow Internet Service Providers has stirred up a hornets’ nest of opposition from the tech industry, and speculation is rampant about whether the biggest names will get...

  • Google faces antitrust lawsuit on U.S. mobile internet search

    Google faces antitrust lawsuit on U.S. mobile internet search

    By Reuters

    (Reuters) - Consumer rights law firm Hagens Berman said it filed a nationwide antitrust class-action lawsuit against Google Inc alleging the company "illegally monopolized" the Internet and mobile...

  • <p>Also called “virtual data rooms,” cloud services are growing quickly, with industry revenue expected to hit $728M this year, a 16-percent increase from 2012. The industry has seen an annualized growth rate of 15.8 percent since 2008. Fueling the grow

    Pentagon Plays Catch-Up with Cloud Computing

    By Timothy R. Homan, The Fiscal Times

    Despite accounting for about half of U.S. discretionary spending each year, the Pentagon’s expenditures for cloud computing services is a fraction of the amount spent by civilian agencies.

  • A Flying Car Still Might Happen

    By Paul A. Eisenstein, CNBC

    Flying cars have long been the stuff of science fiction, though plenty of entrepreneurs and visionaries have struggled to make the concept a reality—including no less than the original Henry Ford...