Waymo and Volvo establish partnership to build electric robotaxis

Waymo has formed a partnership with automotive giant Volvo to build electric robotaxis. The companies announced the “exclusive” collaboration on Thursday which will see Waymo’s self-driving software being integrated with an electric vehicle by Volvo designed for taxi purposes. “Through our strategic partnership, we will first work together to integrate the Waymo Driver into an…

Ericsson offers industrial 5G trial kits via operators, starting with DT in Germany

Swedish network vendor Ericsson is offering trial kits of private industrial 5G networks to enterprises via its mobile operator customers. It has confirmed Deutsche Telekom in Germany as its first operator partner to resell the test networks to local industry. Ericsson and Deutsche Telekom already claim a ‘strategic’ partnership on private and campus-based cellular networks…

How I gave up and learned to love tablets

This is adapted from Plugged In, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter on gear and gadgets. Subscribe to it (and our other great newsletters) here. Plugged In is back and coming at ya like Cleopatra — if Cleopatra had a borderline problem with buying too much shit. Anyway, this edition is all about tablets. Woahh there, close your mouth and put…

Samsung HW-S60T Review – RTINGS.com

The Samsung HW-S60T and the Sonos Playbar are similarly performing soundbars. While both are very well-built, the Samsung has a slightly better-balanced sound profile, it has an HDMI ARC port so it can support Dolby Digital as well as DTS content, and you can even stream audio using your Wi-Fi. However, the Sonos can get…