insert_link Tech Made Simple Nuro is now the First Company in California that’s allowed to operate Robot Cars Commercially Nuro can now charge for autonomous car (that's robots, to you and me) deliveries in California (via TechCrunch). The company received a permit that allowed it to test its robots earlier this year, but this permit will allow the firm to actually charge people for the service. According to a Medium post by Nuro’s chief legal and policy officer, the company is planning to “announce [its] first deployment in California […] todayDecember 24, 2020
insert_link Tech Made Simple Elon Musk’s Vegas Loop underground tunnel system is behind schedule and not delivering as promised Elon Musk’s Boring Company’s system of tunnels to shuttle people under the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) may not be able to move as many people as originally promised, according to documents obtained by TechCrunch. That’s not just disappointing — it may also mean financial penalties for The Boring Company. The choke point isn’t technology — it’s fire regulations. In one of the three loading zones for the tunnel network, called the […] todayOctober 20, 2020
insert_link Health & Wellness Your Doctor may have Rx’d Opioids because his rigged Computer told him to San Francisco-based medical records startup Practice Fusion allegedly developed software for pharmaceutical companies to help increase the number of prescriptions doctors wrote for pain medications, according to a settlement with the US Department of Justice, Bloomberg reports. The company, which supplied its software to tens of thousands of doctors offices nationwide, admitted doing so as part of a $145 million federal settlement to resolve civil and criminal penalties, including $113 […] todayFebruary 11, 2020
insert_link Tech Made Simple Did Your Doc’s Computer Rx Opioids because Drugmakers Tweaked the Software? San Francisco-based medical records startup Practice Fusion allegedly developed software for pharmaceutical companies to help increase the number of prescriptions doctors wrote for pain medications, according to a settlement with the US Department of Justice, Bloomberg reports. The company, which supplied its software to tens of thousands of doctors offices nationwide, admitted doing so as part of a $145 million federal settlement to resolve civil and criminal penalties, including $113 […] todayFebruary 11, 2020
insert_link Tech Made Simple Spotify’s Tastebuds lets you discover New Music through Your Friends’ Playlists Spotify is testing a new feature, Tastebuds, that lets users discover new music through their friends, TechCrunch reports. The feature was first discovered by app researcher Jane Manchun Wong, who found the prototype on the web version of Spotify through reverse-engineering. While not much is known about the feature yet, a dummy landing page that explains, “Now you can discover music through friends whose taste you trust,” can be found […] todayDecember 20, 2019
insert_link Tech Made Simple Spotify Tests Social Listening Feature TechCrunch reports that Spotify appears to be testing a new feature called Social Listening, which would let multiple users add songs to a queue in real time, somewhat like the defunct social media platform Turntable.fm (minus the chat and open invite policy). The feature, unearthed by reverse-engineering expert Jane Manchun Wong, is just a test right now. There’s no indication that it would ever make its way to the consumer […] todayJune 6, 2019
insert_link Tech Made Simple Apple Puts the Smackdown on Facebook Apps Things are getting more heated between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Apple CEO Tim Cook. According to TechCrunch, Facebook had long been paying people $20 a month to download an app called Facebook Research that essentially gave the company full access to collect data from their phones, including which websites they visited, the messages they sent, and all the apps they used. However, the Facebook Research app wasn't […] todayFebruary 4, 2019
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