![]() ![]() But if artificial intelligence allows them to drive and react more like humans, then fewer crashes will be stopped, she said. More crashes would be stopped if the robocars obey all traffic laws including speed limits. Just how many crashes are prevented depends a lot on how autonomous vehicles are programmed, Cicchino said. Humans cause 94% of all car accidents but autonomous vehicles would prevent only about one-third of them, the study concludes. Self-driving cars should make driving safer, but how much safer? A new study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety says not that much, as Associated Press reporter Tom Krisher explores in an article analyzing the issue. Telemedicine service Amwell filed to go public soon, too. That values the startup at over $13 billion. The new stock closed up 62% on the day at $34. Cloud data company ZoomInfo, which we mentioned the other day, priced its shares on Thursday at $21. On Wall Street, after a long drought, the market for tech initial public offerings is heating up again. Work-from-home workers will get a $1,000 allowance to pay for equipment to kit out their space. Maybe Google employees can't avail themselves of free snacks and dry-cleaning pick up at work anymore, but the company is thinking up new perks. Iranian hackers phished for emails at the Trump campaign while Chinese hackers went after Joe Biden's organization.Ī penny for your thoughts. State-sponsored hackers are going after the 2020 presidential campaigns, according to Google's Threat Analysis Group. Here’s the catch: The revenue growth was about the same as the previous quarter despite a month and half of sheltering in place. It grew revenue 50% to just over $200 million. ![]() It lost money, as fast-growing tech companies are wont to do, but it added cash quarter over quarter, a good thing. (A digression on stock tickers: TEAM is the ticker for a different collaboration-software company called Atlassian Slack’s ticker is WORK Zoom’s ticker isn’t ZOOM, but rather ZM Salesforce’s symbol, CRM, for customer relationship software, must have seemed really clever years ago.)Īs for Slack, it added 12,000 new paid customers, a big number. Its stock price has been on a tear, as has its business, which has notably been pitted against a product from Microsoft called Teams. The messaging company is much in the news, what with office workers having been sent home. Much has been made of the dichotomy between robust valuations for stocks and the sorry state of the world.įor further confirmation, check out the reaction to the earnings report Slack released Thursday for its quarter that ended in April. Think of the market these days as a perpetual confusion machine.
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