Mobile Minutes: Eye security; Smart car requirements; Self-driving cars’ future; Inside Toy Story
Looking forward, iris scanners could be as common as fingerprint sensors on phones.
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U.S. proposes requiring vehicles to ‘talk’ to each to avoid crashes
The U.S. Transportation Department on Tuesday proposed requiring all new cars and trucks to be able to “talk” to one another using short-range wireless technology to potentially avoid tens of thousands of crashes annually.
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Ride-hailing has a friend in Chao, but does self-driving?
SAN FRANCISCO — On Wednesday, top tech CEOs are expected to sit down with president-elect Trump in New York to discuss what remains a mystery: how the new administration will treat the nation’s high-tech engine.
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Inside Pixar’s make-or-break gamble to make Toy Story a hit
Computer animated movies are everywhere these days. But in 1995 when Pixar was preparing to release Toy Story, the public had never seen a fully computer-animated movie before. Toy Story was years in the making and for Pixar everything was on the line. This week, Bloomberg Technology’s Brad Stone and Pia Gadkari take us back to those final months, when CEO Steve Jobs, CFO Lawrence Levy and Pixar’s other employees were racing to finish its first feature film, while also planning an all-important IPO.
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