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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...

  • Australia PM Rudd criticizes Rupert Murdoch role in election race

    Australia PM Rudd criticizes Rupert Murdoch role in election race

    By Reuters

    CANBERRA (Reuters) - Global media mogul Rupert Murdoch has waded into Australia's election race, calling a key ruling party platform unaffordable and drawing accusations from Prime Minister Kevin...

  • Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos Buys Washington Post

    By Christine Haughney, The Washington Post

    Amazon.com’s founder, Jeffrey P. Bezos, has agreed to buy The Washington Post, one of the nation’s most prominent newspapers, for $250 million.

  • Cost of New Test-Tube Burger: $332K

    By Kate Kelland, Reuters

    The world's first laboratory-grown beef burger was flipped out of a petri dish and into a frying pan on Monday, with food tasters declaring it tasted "close to meat." Grown in-vitro from cattle stem...

  • Time Warner or CBS: Who Should You Root For?

    By Peter Weber, TheWeek.com

    Time Warner Cable and CBS are feuding over how much the network should pay the cable service. So far no agreement has been reached and customers in New York, LA and Dallas have been blacked out of...

  • Obama administration overturns ban on some iPad, iPhones

    Obama administration overturns ban on some iPad, iPhones

    By Diane Bartz and Ayesha Rascoe, Reuters

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration has overturned a U.S. trade panel's ban on the sale of some older iPhones and iPads, reversing a ruling that had favored Samsung Electronics Co Ltd...