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Sources: Apple is preparing to buy self-driving car startup Drive.ai in a likely acquihire; Drive.ai has raised about $77M and was valued at about $200M in 2017 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

{$inline_image} Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is preparing to buy self-driving car startup Drive.ai in a likely acquihire; Drive.ai has raised about $77M and was valued at about $200M in 2017  —  Apple Inc. is preparing to buy startup Drive.ai in a small deal that will bring more engineers with experience … Sources: Apple

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Microsoft launches Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 with USB-C, Bluetooth, new adjustable tension thumbsticks, new trigger grips, and shorter hair locks (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft launches Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 with USB-C, Bluetooth, new adjustable tension thumbsticks, new trigger grips, and shorter hair locks  —  Microsoft is launching a new version of its popular Xbox Elite controller today at E3 2019.  It’s the Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 … Microsoft launches

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A new Microsoft Flight Simulator is on the way

Microsoft has announced a new installment of its long-running Microsoft Flight Simulator series. The new Flight Simulator, which was teased briefly at Microsoft’s E3 keynote, is powered by Microsoft’s Azure cloud artificial intelligence. There’s not a lot of detail beyond that — except that the trailer, captured in 4K video, looks gorgeous. The hyper-detailed Microsoft

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Gears 5 launches September 10th

Gears 5 will launch for Xbox One and PC September 10th. The news was announced onstage today at the Xbox E3 press conference. Microsoft announced the game during its E3 press conference last year. Gears 5 stars Kait Diaz, who first appeared in Gears of War 4. The game is being developed by Vancouver-based studio

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WarnerMedia CEO talks about the challenges of integrating the three silos of Time Warner to achieve his goal of 70M subs for AT&T's upcoming streaming service (Alex Sherman/CNBC)

Alex Sherman / CNBC: WarnerMedia CEO talks about the challenges of integrating the three silos of Time Warner to achieve his goal of 70M subs for AT&T’s upcoming streaming service  —  KEY POINTS  — AT&T pays more than $100 billion for Time Warner, leaving it with a debt load that one analyst describes as “terrifying.”

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Autonomous truck startup Starsky Robotics runs a traditional freight business, with 36 trucks and using about half of its staff, to learn the basics of trucking (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: Autonomous truck startup Starsky Robotics runs a traditional freight business, with 36 trucks and using about half of its staff, to learn the basics of trucking  —  The fleet includes 36 regular trucks and three autonomous ones  —  More than three years ago, self-driving trucks startup Starsky Robotics … Autonomous truck

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