Reuters Toyota Motor Corp said on Friday it will set up a research & development company with a focus on artificial intelligence technologies in Silicon Valley, and plans to invest $1 billion over the next five yeas. The new firm, Toyota Research Institute, will be led by CEO Gill Pratt, Toyotas executive technical advisor, and
Reuters A Scottish man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in San Francisco for posing on Twitter as influential short-selling firms and sending bogus tweets that drove down the stock prices of two companies, in an effort to profit from illegal trading. The U.S. Department of Justice said James Alan Craig, 62, of
Reuters Monsanto Co on Friday denied that plantings of its genetically modified soybeans have impacted bees, led to deforestation or caused damage to the honey production industry in two Mexican states. Mexicos Supreme Court on Wednesday blocked a move to allow the planting of genetically modified soya seeds in the southern Mexican states of Campeche
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The first step to recovery is admission, and Twitter on Friday apologized after its sole black engineering manager resigned with a viral post highlighting Twitters lack of initiative in bringing in more diversity. Miley was one of more than 300 Twitter employees who were laid off last month, but as TechCrunch reports, he informed Twitter he
Reuters SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) Apple Inc <AAPL.O> defeated a U.S. class action lawsuit brought by Apple retail workers over bag search practices at the companys California brick and mortar outlets, according to a court ruling on Saturday. The decision, from U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco, came in a case where employees
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Were inventing the post-Mom economy, whichnot to insult mothers or anythingshould make us all happier and richer and finally bring us the leisurely future we were promised 50 years ago. Give it another decade and we might not have anything to do outside of work except exercise at the gym or drink 3-D-printed bourbon at virtual-reality
