Published on: 2025-06-12 08:15:00
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! It might have been a short week, but there was still plenty of news, including another Zoox recall, an update on the Stellantis-Amazon partnership, and a few startup-funding deals. One item of note: This week, I wrote about Carma Technology and its patent infringement lawsuit against Uber. This isn’t a patent troll situation, and
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-14 14:30:03
Cameras lead the list of features people look for when choosing a new smartphone. Every pro-level phone distinguishes itself with more cameras, more resolution and more zoom. But when the goal is to create one of the thinnest phones on the market, bulky cameras are easy targets for chucking aside. And yet the new Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge includes a surprising 200 megapixel (MP) f/1.7 wide camera that shares the same specs as the one in Samsung's Galaxy S25 Ultra. In fact, you could argue that th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 00:00:09
Every smartphone claims to have the best camera money can buy, but which ones actually make the cut? To help you decide, I’ve sifted my way through dozens of the best and most affordable camera phones, grading them on essential photography metrics like exposure, HDR capabilities, portrait quality, zoom capabilities, and video capture options. Whether you’re shooting friends and family or documenting a trip abroad, these are the smartphones I think you should buy. Google Pixel 9 Pro XL: The best
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-20 16:52:00
A hot potato: As if we didn't already know how much CEOs love the job-cutting, cost-slashing, investor-pleasing benefits of AI, chief executives are now using the technology to create avatars of themselves in earnings calls. Klarna's CEO recently did it, and now Zoom CEO Eric Yuan has followed suit. Yuan used an AI avatar of himself via Zoom Clips, the company's asynchronous video creation tool. The clip, which you can see here at around the 2:40 mark, shows a realistic-looking recreation of th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-21 01:20:59
Paul Jones / Android Authority TL;DR Apple is testing a 200MP camera sensor, according to a veteran leaker. This will likely be used for the main camera rather than as a zoom camera sensor. Apple would be following in Android OEMs’ footsteps by adopting this tech. Samsung was among the first smartphone makers to adopt a 200MP camera, marking the next step in the megapixel war. We’ve since seen more brands adopting this high-resolution sensor for their main and telephoto sensors. Now, it soun
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 20:00:18
There are oh, so many strange things about the new Galaxy S25 Edge. Yes, it’s thin, and yes, it’s made from a durable mix of titanium and top-tier Gorilla Glass, but once you get past that, I am simply confused. It has a small battery that’s not silicon-carbon, slow charging with no magnetic ring for Qi2 accessories (shocker), and, wait for it, only two cameras. That’s one fewer camera than the standard Galaxy S25 and S25 Plus carry, and half the number of the top-tier Galaxy S25 Ultra. The last
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 01:00:26
The Amazon-owned robotaxi company Zoox has issued its second recall in a month following a collision that occurred in San Francisco. It has already submitted a voluntary software recall notice to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) after an internal review of the incident and has already deployed the software update to its fleet of 270 vehicles. According to the company's announcement, an unoccupied Zoox robotaxi was struck by an electric scooter after braking at an inters
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 08:26:16
Amazon 's Zoox robotaxi unit issued a voluntary recall of its software for the second time in a month following a recent crash in San Francisco. On May 8, an unoccupied Zoox robotaxi was turning at low speed when it was struck by an electric scooter rider after braking to yield at an intersection. The person on the scooter declined medical attention after sustaining minor injuries as a result of the collision, Zoox said. "The Zoox vehicle was stopped at the time of contact," the company said i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 16:36:30
Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle company Zoox has issued its second voluntary software recall in a month, following a collision between one of its robotaxis and an e-scooter rider in San Francisco on May 8. The latest incident involved an unoccupied Zoox vehicle operating at low speed, which the company says was struck by the e-scooter after braking to yield at an intersection. Just weeks earlier, the company recalled about 270 vehicles after a Las Vegas crash between a Zoox robotaxi and a pass
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 09:34:16
In Brief CEOs are now so immersed in AI, they’re sending their avatars to address quarterly earnings calls instead of themselves, at least partially. After the Klarna CEO’s AI avatar appeared on an investor call earlier this week, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan followed suit, also using his avatar for initial comments. Yuan deployed his custom avatar via Zoom Clips, the company’s asynchronous video creation tool. “I am proud to be among the first CEOs to use an avatar in an earnings call,” he — or rather
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-01 16:00:09
Table of Contents Zoox's Self-Driving Test Fleet Is Coming to Atlanta Zoox, the Amazon-owned self-driving company, is expanding its test fleet to Atlanta. It'll soon begin testing its autonomous technology there aboard retrofitted Toyota Highlander SUVs, before residents eventually get the chance to climb aboard a purpose-built robotaxi. Atlanta is Zoox's seventh test market. It announced its expansion to Los Angeles in April, and also operates its test fleet in the San Francisco Bay Area, Las
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-01 16:21:51
Amazon’s autonomous vehicle unit Zoox is about to start mapping and gathering data in Atlanta, Georgia, a precursor to testing its self-driving vehicles and eventually offering public rides in the city. Atlanta will become the seventh city in the U.S. where Zoox is testing its vehicles. The company announced its testing plans just one day after Waymo — along with partner Uber — said it would start offering rides in its own robotaxis to early access users in Atlanta ahead of a larger public laun
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-04 08:00:43
Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Google and Samsung frequently top our lists of the best camera phones on the market, and I can understand why. A big reason for this is that they both have great camera apps, offering distinctive designs, mostly consistent image quality, and a variety of modes. However, after using recent vivo phones like the X200 Ultra and X200 Pro, I realized there’s one very useful UI choice that I’d love to see on my Pixel and Galaxy phones, and that would be more powerful
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-05 20:12:00
Kerry Wan/ZDNET In honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Google announced it's helping people access their devices in new ways. There are two accessibility features for both Android and Chrome. Also: Your Meta Ray-Bans just got two seriously helpful upgrades for free - how they work Here's what's new. New accessibility features for Android Improved Gemini in TalkBack: Last year, Google added image description capability powered by Gemini to TalkBack, the Android screen reader that le
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-05 22:59:00
Kerry Wan/ZDNET In honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Google announced it's helping people access their devices in new ways. There are two accessibility features for both Android and Chrome. Here's what's new. New accessibility features for Android Improved Gemini in TalkBack: Last year, Google added image description capability powered by Gemini to TalkBack, the Android screen reader that lets people with vision impairments interact with their devices through spoken words, vibrati
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-06 03:00:06
I have never wanted to slap a case on a phone more, but that would defeat the whole purpose. I'm holding the $1,100 Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge as I stand outside my apartment, waiting for an Uber. It's the first time I've taken the super-slim phone beyond the confines of my home and into a world of rough pavement. I tighten my grip. I marvel at how the 5.8mm device feels in my hand, about 20% thinner than its Galaxy S25 sibling. Yes, it's skinny, but that's not what stands out most. Rather, it's
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-06 03:59:11
Kerry Wan/ZDNET In honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Google announced it's helping people access their devices in new ways. There are two accessibility features for both Android and Chrome. Here's what's new. New accessibility features for Android Improved Gemini in TalkBack: Last year, Google added image description capability powered by Gemini to TalkBack, the Android screen reader that lets people with vision impairments interact with their devices through spoken words, vibrati
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-18 00:20:18
Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR A leaker has suggested that a next-generation OPPO phone could adopt a 200MP periscope camera and a 50MP 10x camera. If confirmed, this would make for the most impressive zoom camera hardware on a smartphone. The last phone with a 10x periscope camera was 2023’s Galaxy S23 Ultra. Samsung made a splash with 2021’s Galaxy S21 Ultra, being among the first phone makers to offer a 10x periscope camera. We haven’t seen a phone with a 10x camera in a few years,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-22 20:12:14
is a news writer fond of the electric vehicle lifestyle and things that plug in via USB-C. He spent over 15 years in IT support before joining The Verge. Amazon-owned Zoox says it issued a software recall for all 270 of its vehicles after an unoccupied robotaxi in Las Vegas crashed into a passenger vehicle on April 8th, Reuters reports. The update rolled out between April 16th and 17th to address a risky situation that could arise when the vehicle operating at over 40mph closed in on another ve
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-23 03:54:21
The company said all its vehicles on the road have now received the update. Zoox, the Amazon-owned robotaxi company, announced a voluntary software recall for 270 of its vehicles. The company had paused its driverless vehicle operations for a review following an incident last month where a Zoox car and a passenger car collided in Las Vegas. According to the report filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the crash did not cause any injuries. CNBC reports that Zoox has resu
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-23 12:55:01
The company said all its vehicles on the road have now received the update. Zoox, the Amazon-owned robotaxi company, announced a voluntary software recall for its vehicles. The company had paused its driverless vehicle operations for a review following an incident last month where a Zoox car and a passenger car collided in Las Vegas. According to the report filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the crash did not cause any injuries. CNBC reports that Zoox has resumed usu
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-23 12:06:45
Zoox, the autonomous vehicle company owned by Amazon, paused its driverless testing program for more than a week and issued a voluntary recall of its software following a crash in Las Vegas, according to the company and a filing with federal safety regulators. The April 8 crash, which involved an unoccupied Zoox vehicle and a passenger car, prompted the company to issue a recall for about 270 vehicles equipped with a specific version of its automated driving system. The recall number doesn’t re
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-23 20:59:19
Amazon 's Zoox issued a software recall for 270 of its robotaxis after a crash in Las Vegas last month, the company said Tuesday. The recall surrounds a defect with the vehicle's automated driving system that could cause it to inaccurately predict the movement of another car, increasing "the risk of a crash," according to a report submitted to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Zoox submitted the recall after an April 8 incident in Las Vegas where an unoccupied Zoox robotaxi c
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-27 00:00:08
7.0 / 10 SCORE Nikon Coolpix P1100 Pros Remarkable 125x optical zoom Bluetooth and USB-C Some use beyond its zoom Cons An absolute unit of a camera Zoom is conspicuous (to put it mildly) Slow lens and small sensor The Nikon Coolpix P1100 is, to put it mildly, a unique camera. Unique, at least, in the modern era of point-and-shoot cameras. Its headline feature, its only major feature really, is an absolutely bonkers 125x optical zoom. That kind of reach is incredibly rare at any level of ph
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-08 12:00:10
I spent at least two or three years begging Motorola to bring a telephoto sensor to its revamped Razr series. I felt like I spent long enough complaining about the zoom capabilities (or lack thereof) on flip phones that a dedicated sensor was the only way forward. Then, Motorola listened. It loaded the Razr Plus (2024) with a 2x optical sensor for Super Zoom up to 30x. For a second, I had everything I wanted. Then, I realized that the grass wasn’t greener. Although the image quality from the te
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-13 20:53:22
Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Virtually all Android phones have preset zoom buttons in the camera app. For example, the Google Pixel 9 offers 0.5x, 1x, and 2x levels while the Pro models have an extra button for 5x zoom thanks to the periscope zoom camera. These preset buttons are very convenient, but it got me wondering about people’s camera zoom habits. Just how many people only use these pre-defined buttons or always zoom freely via the slider? Or is it a mix of the two? We posted a pol
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-14 07:00:53
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR It’s been 20 years since the first YouTube video was uploaded. YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim uploaded the video “Me at the zoo” on April 23, 2005. The video, which now has over 355 million views, symbolizes YouTube’s humble beginnings. On April 23, 2005, exactly 20 years ago today, a low-resolution, 18-second video titled “Me at the zoo” quietly went up and launched what would become the biggest video platform on the planet — YouTube. Uploaded on Ap
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-15 04:43:15
A hacking group dubbed 'Elusive Comet' targets cryptocurrency users in social engineering attacks that exploit Zoom's remote control feature to trick users into granting them access to their machines. Zoom's remote control feature allows meeting participants to take control of another participant's computer. According to cybersecurity firm Trail of Bits, which encountered this social engineering campaign, the perpetrators mirror techniques used by the Lazarus hacking group in the massive $1.5
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-23 08:34:00
Following widespread outages for Spotify users on Wednesday, numerous Zoom users also reported that the online meeting service was down. The outage appeared to extend to the Zoom website, customer support and email services. As of 5 pm ET, Zoom services appear to have been restored. According to Zoom's own status page, all tools are now up and running. Though these issues prevented many Zoom users from making it to their online meetings, it's not clear what went wrong with the service or why t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-23 12:32:48
In Brief Zoom says its platform is back online after suffering an outage for much of Wednesday afternoon. “Service has now been restored after the earlier outage, and we sincerely appreciate your patience and understanding,” Zoom said in a post on X at around 2 p.m. Pacific. The trouble began around 11:40 a.m., according to The Verge, citing data from Cisco’s ThousandEyes platform. Users on social media reported having trouble logging in, and getting an “Unable to Connect” error message when
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