Jaguar Land Rover, Ford and Tata Motors are testing connected cars which can communicate with each other using technology designed to speed up journeys and cut accidents, the first such trials in Britain. Cars which are able to warn drivers when another connected vehicle brakes suddenly and those which can monitor traffic signals and regulate their speed to encounter fewer red lights were being showcased at a testing ground in central England. Increasingly sophisticated technology in vehicles is paving the way for fully driverless vehicles, with Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), owned by India's Tata Motors, also demonstrating a self-driving Range Rover …

Swimsuit models are used to getting up close and personal with cameras on photoshoots. But one drone-mounted lens got a little too close to one U.S. beauty, crashing into the back of her head as she frolicked on the beach. Incredible footage shows the flying robot follow two young women dressed in tiny bikinis as they dash into the surf.

Hackers used internet-connected home devices, such as CCTV cameras and printers, to attack popular websites on Friday, security analysts say. Twitter, Spotify, and Reddit were among the sites taken offline on Friday. Each uses a company called Dyn, which was the target of the attack, to direct users to its website. Security analysts now believe the attack used the "internet of things" - web-connected home devices - to launch the assault.

According to Amazon, the cop of the future won’t just be a robot, it will be one that fits in the palm of your hand. On Tuesday, the retail giant was granted a patent for a miniature, voice-controlled “unmanned aerial vehicle assistant” to be used by everyone from officers making traffic stops to shoppers just trying to figure out where they parked their cars. According to the patent first discovered by GeekWire, off-board processing could be used to greatly reduce the size of the assistants compared to today’s drones while greatly increasing their capabilities. 

American honey producer Sue Bee Honey has recently had a measure of success in an experiment with beacon technology to augment customers’ in-store experiences. The excursion into proximity-based technology has brought back impressive results, with significant surges in awareness, purchase intent, and return on investment. The brand’s success could spell further adoption for beacon technology and granular location-based marketing in general.

Apple Inc. has drastically scaled back its automotive ambitions, leading to hundreds of job cuts and a new direction that, for now, no longer includes building its own car, according to people familiar with the project. Hundreds of members of the car team, which comprises about 1,000 people, have been reassigned, let go, or have left of their own volition in recent months, the people said, asking not to be identified because the moves aren’t public. New leadership of the initiative, known internally as Project Titan, has re-focused on developing an autonomous driving system that gives Apple flexibility to either partner with …

Wireless technology is a stone soup of acronyms, jargon, numbers, and marketing gibberish that the industry likes to boil down into terms like "4G," the technology used by today's phones. (It's also known as LTE, which stands for "long-term evolution"—as if that clarifies anything.) Now tech companies are talking about 5G, and Qualcomm has announced its first 5G modem chip, the Snapdragon X50, for phones and other gadgets. No surprise: 5G will be faster than 4G. But it will also bring tens or even hundreds of billions of new devices online. Yes, the new standard will download apps and web …

Deepening ties between Tesla and Panasonic could help the U.S. car maker fast track its ambitious plan for solar-powered systems that charge smart homes and electric cars. The two companies said Monday that Panasonic will use what would have been a SolarCity factory in RiverBend, New York, to manufacture up to 10,000 solar panels per day. Tesla will buy the panels for use on houses as part of the deal, which is contingent on its acquisition of SolarCity. The partnership extends work between the two companies that began with Panasonic's Gigafactory in Nevada. The multi-billion-dollar factory is a huge manufacturing …

GameStop Corp. expects to sell out of Sony Corp.’s PlayStation virtual reality goggles by Sunday, Chief Operating Officer Tony Bartel said in an interview. The Grapevine, Texas-based operator of computer game stores has asked Sony to supply more of the headsets, the executive said. PlayStation VR, which is used in conjunction with Sony’s PlayStation game console, went onsale Thursday. GameStop took preorders and opened its doors just after midnight Wednesday, and Bartel said many stores were already sold out.

Nokia said UAE-headquartered operator du passed another milestone on its path to 5G after the companies completed a demonstration of 360-degree virtual reality (VR) video streaming at the GITEX 2016 technology conference. Content shot on Nokia’s Ozo VR camera was streamed to head mounted displays over Nokia’s AirScale Radio Access equipment. Nokia refers to the kit as 5G-ready, and explained that the demonstration is therefore an important step for du’s plan to deploy 5G services in 2020 by demonstrating a real-world use case for the next-generation technology. The radio network utilised 400 MHz of bandwidth in the 4.5 GHz frequency, and multiple …