Some of the world's leading automakers are all turning to the same company to help bring past the self-driving finish line. Aurora CEO and Co-Founder Chris Urmson joins Cheddar at CES to discuss his firm's newly-announced partnership with Volkswagen Group. He describes his company's goal as providing the "drivers," by way of software, for autonomous vehicles.
The partnership is focused on developing "mobility as a service" initiative in major cities. Urmson describes how Aurora will help Volkswagen Group's fleet of self-driving cars, known as Sedric, connect people in urban communities. He explains how the service initiative will help people with mobility issues of their own, as well as making transportation easier for commuters.
Urmson reveals how his company spent the past year working with Volkswagen Group to integrate its system into the automaker's fleet. He breaks down Aurora's high-pedigree founding team, including himself, a veteran of Google's self-driving initiative, and Sterling Anderson, one of the minds behind the launch of Tesla's Model X.
Tesla's lawsuit against ex-employee Martin Tripp comes at a time when the company is under pressure to meet its production targets for the Model 3. Missing internal goals again "would be awful," says Brian Deagon, senior reporter at Investor's Business Daily.
In this week's episode of The Crypto Craze, Cheddar's Nora Ali and Brad Smith discuss the biggest stories from the crypto world. Payments company Square secured a BitLicense from New York, which will allow New York residents to trade bitcoin through the Cash App.
Vlad Tenev, CEO of stock trading app Robinhood, sits down with Cheddar reporter Tanaya Macheel. He talks about the future plans for the company which currently has around 4 million active users.
Michael Corbat says it makes sense for countries to establish cryptocurrencies for their individual nations.
Michael Corbat, CEO of Citigroup, says that understanding finance and the language that comes with it is key to helping people not be intimidated by money issues.
IBM and Fox Sports have teamed up to bring fans an easy way to create their own highlight reels, drawing footage from archives and current matches. "It is a huge opportunity to tap into that fan passion," says Robert Schwartz, Global Leader of Strategy and Design at IBM iX, the company's digital ad agency.
Brian Krzanich, the CEO of Intel, is resigning after an internal investigation found his relationship with another Intel employee violated the company's code of conduct. Bob Swan will step in as interim CEO while the company looks for a permanent CEO.
AT&T is launching a new streaming service aimed at winning back cord cutters. WatchTV is a skinny bundle which features around 30 basic channels. It will be free for new AT&T wireless subscribers, and will cost $14.99 per month as a standalne product.
Cheddar's Brad Smith sits down with Tristan 'Mack' Wilds and Chaley Rose, stars of the new movie 'Dinner for Two,' at the American Black Film Festival. The actors discuss what it was like filming a movie in just two weeks.
Automation can help humans focus on what we're best at -- creative storytelling and innovation. That's according to Wade Foster, the CEO of Zapier, a company that creates apps to automate routine workplace tasks.
The Facebook-owned company launched its new long-form video content platform on Wednesday, a bid to take on YouTube and Snapchat and introduce a kind of viral element that made the now-defunct Vine so popular.
Pandora Senior Vice President Lizzie Widhelm teased the new season of the wildly popular "This American Life" series as she explained to Cheddar why her company sees a ripe opportunity in what remains a very young platform for podcasts.
Employees of big tech companies hold their leaders to a high moral standard and force them to speak out, says Dana Wollman, executive editor at Endgadget. Microsoft staff recently protested against letting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which has been criticized for its treatment of migrant children at the border, use the company's Azure cloud technology.
