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Apple CEO Tim Cook. Speculation surrounding an Apple automotive project has been bubbling for years, with Apple keeping ...

Apple is going to test self-driving cars

After months of speculation that the company is developing automotive technology, Apple has officially leapt into the war for self-driving cars.

Tesla has ascended into the realm of so-called story stocks - companies that have bewitched investors because their ...

Tesla has something hotter to sell than cars: Its story

Tesla has ascended into a rarefied realm of so-called story stocks - companies that have so bewitched investors that their share prices are impervious to any traditional valuation measures because their stories are simply too good not to be true.

Luminar founder Austin Russell.

The 22 year-old at the centre of the self-driving car craze

In the sixth grade, Austin Russell turned a Nintendo gaming handset into a mobile phone. At 15, he built a holographic keyboard. By 17, he'd filed for a patent. Now at 22, he's running a startup at the heart of Silicon Valley's latest technology mania.

It's estimated consumers' use of Wi-Fi at public places like stadiums and airports will drop to a third of all mobile ...

World without Wi-Fi looms as unlimited plans rise

The Wi-Fi icon - a dot with radio waves radiating outward - glows on nearly every internet-connected device, from the iPhone to thermostats to TVs. But it's starting to fade from the limelight.

Atlassian's Mike Cannon-Brookes said the need to understand, adapt and be part of the new economy was critical.

Silence on ideas boom 'is sad'

Policymakers should stop sticking their heads in the sand and ignore the fact that "there are going to be a massive amount of jobs destroyed" from the digital revolution, says Mike Cannon-Brookes, co-founder of Australia's most successful tech company, Atlassian.

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, left, and Anthony Levandowski.

Engineer is now Google's no.1 enemy

In 2013, Anthony Levandowski was the star of Google's self-driving car project. The tall, swaggering engineer was featured in a long New Yorker story about the search engine willing the impossible technology into reality.