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Facebookhas announceda research project that aims to push the “frontier of first-person perception”, and in the process help you remember where you left your keys. TheEgo4D projectprovides a huge collection of first-person video and related data, plus a set of challenges for researchers to teach computers to understand the data and gather useful information from it. In September, the social media giant launched a line of “smart glasses” calledRay-Ban Stories, which carry a digital camera and other features....

Tesco has announced that its Tesco Mobile subscriber base has surpassed 2.5 million people, with Christmas sales helping the mobile virtual network operator reach the milestone. Tesco Mobile experienced double digit airtime growth in each quarter of last year, boosting its subscriber numbers by 25% in the same period. Tens of thousands of Tesco Mobile handsets were activated on Christmas Day, many of them Apple iPhone’s, one of the the company’s most successful handset that tempts customers with only a 12 month contract....

Tesla and Apple set stock splits to lower share prices — then they rallied Tesla pumped 30% since revealing its stock split, while Apple is up 24% Are Tesla and Apple buyersreallyjust here for the stock splits? The thing is, it’s difficult to say just how many buyers either company has attracted simply through the promise of increased share counts. [Read: Watch Tesla’s meteoric rise — set to techno-remixed Elon Musk tweets]...

Last Thursday, 200 Volkswagen executives gathered for a conference in Alpbach, Austria, to discuss the electric transform the Group, with special reference to the conversion of the Wolfsburg plant, the company’s headquarters. Well that sounds pretty boring, but trust me, it gets better. There was one special and utterly unexpected guest who joined the meeting from far-off Texas… Elon Musk. Yep, you read that right. In fact it was Volkswagen’s CEO Herbert Diess himself who invited Musk to join the meeting via video call....

Tesla zoomed past analyst expectations in its quarterly results thanks to record-breaking car sales and Bitcoin trading. The company posted its earnings last night that noted $10.4 billion in revenue for Q1 2020 — matching the analyst expectations. Despite the global chip shortage, Tesla delivered a record-breaking 184,877 cars in the quarter, beating the mark of180,570set in Q4 2020. This number was also much higherthan the analyst expectation of177,822 vehicle deliveries....