Technology

Ride-hiring Lyft eyes posh version

An E-type Jaguar: probably not used for ride-hailing.

The latest investment in US ride-hailer Lyft will send a fleet of luxury vehicles into the market, bringing the dawn of the self-driving Jag inches closer.

A first look at Beyond Good and Evil 2

This city beneath a statue of Genesha appears identically in the game's art, trailer and early tech demo.

Comprising an entire galaxy that will have a consistent level of detail and believable physics regardless of whether you're chatting with a character in a downtown noodle shop, roaming the streets of a city, in orbit over a planet or racing through the cosmos, to say this game is ambitious is an understatement.

PlayStation is all games at E3

The upcoming PlayStation-exclusive Spider-Man game closed Sony's pre-E3 conference.

Differing greatly from the hardware focus of the Microsoft conference, Sony's PlayStation showcase ahead of this week's E3 expo followed the blueprint it laid out last year: lots of exciting footage, minimal talking, incredible theatrics and very few concrete details about when we might play the new games.

Bending light and dead stars

Albert Einstein: still relevant, it turns out.

How much does a dead star weigh? That's a question now with at least one solid answer – thanks to an experiment first suggested by Albert Einstein a century ago.