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After months of Uber’s self-driving car launch , an incident occurred today as a female pedestrian was killed after being struck by an autonomous Uber vehicle in Arizona. In response to the incident, Uber has pulled all of its self-driving cars from public roads in the state as well as in the cities of San Francisco, Toronto, and Pittsburgh. The crash occurred near Mill Avenue and Curry Road early Monday morning in Tempe, Arizona. Police confirmed that the Uber vehicle was headed to northbound while the woman was walking in a crosswalk when she was struck by the vehicle unnoticed and she was identified as 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg by the police. This may be the first pedestrian to ever be killed in a self-driving vehicle accident. The vehicle was operating in an autonomous mode at the time of the accident. Herzberg was transported to a nearby hospital after the crash where she passed away from her injuries, according to a statement from Tempe police. Tempe police department stat...

[caption id="attachment_10588" align="alignnone" width="1280"]                      President Trump fired Rex Tillerson yesterday as the American Secretary of State via a tweet [/caption] This is not the first and probably wouldn"t be the last time for the President of the United states of America Donald Trump who officially fired the Secretary of state, Rex Tillerson at the State Department, via a tweet made on his official Twitter account early yesterday morning where he announced that Mike Pompeo, who is the current director of CIA would replace Rex Tillerson as the Secretary of state of the state department of the United states of America. [xyz-ihs snippet="Trump-Tillerson-tweet"] Before President Trump tapped him to lead the State Department, Rex Tillerson was the CEO and chairman of ExxonMobil for a little over a decade. His appointment was confirmed 53-46, with senators splitting mostly along party lines. His confirmation vot...

US President Donald Trump blocks Broadcom buyout of Qualcomm Looks like the big competition to Intel may not be happening after all as its shares jumped over 4%, hitting a record high of $53.76, Tuesday morning after US President Donald Trump blocked Broadcom’s proposed $117 billion buyout of Qualcomm . The arrangement would have made a noteworthy competitor for the chip maker. Intel, which generally has not been a noteworthy player in mobile chips, has been attempting to develop its essence in the fragment and even considered entering a contending offer for Qualcomm to fight off the risk of expanded rivalry. Citing national security concerns, President Donald Trump on Monday blocked a Singapore-based company from buying the American Qualcomm even as some accuse him of pushing his "protectionist" agenda forward in spite of concerns such moves could attract a retaliation from other countries.  In a White House website post , the US President said “There is credible evide...