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Sebastian Thrun to speak at the Business Insider Global Trends Festival 2020
Sebastian Thrun is a true superstar of Silicon Valley. He developed Google's self-driving cars proj…
Business Insider
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Udacity gets $75 million in debt funding, the online training platform's revenue has jumped 260% in the first half of the year
The US-based company on Wednesday also announced that its Q3 enterprise and government bookings …
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“Welcome to the future” – The first day of the Business Insider Global Trends Festival discusses the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on business
Over 250 prominent speakers will appear on the event's five virtual stages, made up of a global…
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Sebastian Thrun, the godfather of the self-driving car industry, explains how Larry Page taught him to be a visionary, not just an 'expert'
"Back in 2009, when I had become officially the godfather of self-driving cars, and the world exper…
Julie Bort
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Sebastian Thrun on flying car safety: 'If we screw it up it would put it off for decades'
Thrun sees the air as a safer space than the ground, because, very simply, there are fewer things t…
Caroline Cakebread
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Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt says the Ukraine War turned him into an arms dealer
Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO, called himself a 'licensed arms dealer' and said his new AI dr…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Y Combinator is making its first weapons industry bet on a company that wants to be the SpaceX of missiles
Defense startup Ares Industries says it can make anti-ship cruise missiles that are 10 times cheape…
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
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Boeing invests a further $450 million in the air taxi startup launched by Google cofounder Larry Page to develop pilotless aircraft
Boeing invests extra funds in Wisk Aero, which is creating autonomous aircraft designed for short t…
Sam Tabahriti
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Google Glass — which aimed to revolutionize wearable tech — was a 'carnival of failure' according to the author of a dishy new book on the early 2010s non-phenom
A new book on Google Glass chronicles the development of the wearable device that revolutionized AR…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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The godfather of the self-driving car shares his bold, AI-driven vision for the future of the oil and gas industry - and provides a peek into his disruptive mindset
It's his work in AI that likely secured his invitation to speak at the Abu Dhabi International Petr…
Joe Ciolli
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A month after layoffs, Udacity's famous founder says the online school expects to do $100 million in revenue this year
"And that right away, led to a major restructuring," he explained. "The number-one type of individu…
Julie Bort
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Watch Uber’s APAC head Pradeep Parameswaran open up about sustainable mobility for all at the Global Trends Festival 2020
Parameswaran has been spearheading many innovations including bringing in more electrical vehicles …
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The ex-Googler who started self-driving cars wore a puppy harnessed to his chest at a startup conference
The pup looked to be a cross between a husky and a pure wolf, and provided an interesting contrast …
Caroline Cakebread
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Larry Page's flying car startup Kitty Hawk is teaming up with Boeing to launch flying taxis
Kitty Hawk is funded by Google's cofounder Larry Page and has created two vehicles that look like o…
Mary Hanbury
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The leadership from Asia, and India in particular, will be at the heart of Global Trends Festival 2020
Asia is not just the centre of the pandemic, it also has the potential to be the epicentre of the r…
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An ex-Googler says flying cars are 'completely crazy' - and they're 3 years away from becoming the next hot thing
A prototype of the type of the flying vehicle Thrun was referring to was first showcased in a video…
Caroline Cakebread
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The man building flying cars for Larry Page wants to reinvent the way you prepare dinner
It's a new and somewhat unexpected category for the German-born Thrun. Nicknamed the "father of the…
Biz Carson
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Video: The Kitty Hawk flying car gave a jaw dropping demo in San Francisco
Kitty Hawk CEO Sebastian Thrun told the crowd of onlookers in San Francisco that the final version …
Alexei Oreskovic
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Isobel Asher Hamilton,Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Google cofounder Larry Page has been secretly testing flying taxis in New Zealand
Kitty Hawk chose New Zealand as a testbed due to its "forward thinking regulatory system," accordin…