Apple will pay $38 billion in tax and repatriate about $250 billion

Apple announced a new set of investments to support the American economy and its workforce, concentrated in three areas where Apple has had the greatest impact on job creation: direct employment by Apple, spending and investment with Apple’s domestic suppliers and manufacturers, and fueling the fast-growing app economy which Apple created with iPhone and the …

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Self driving car news from Tesla, Nutonomy and Apple

Elon Musk has revealed that Tesla is developing its own custom artificial intelligence chips for its driverless cars. However, his previous prediction that full self driving car capability would be achieved this year has been postphoned at least two years. Elon now says Tesla could achieve some level of full self-driving within two years (2020), …

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Will the new iPhones make Augmented Reality mainstream ?

Apple is supporting the popularization of Augmented Reality with developers’ apps enabled by the ARKit tool, the new operating system, the hardware with the new iPhone 8, iPhone 8 plus, and iPhone X and Apple’s massive user base. The new phones and that software to support them were designed as a platform for augmented reality …

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