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Image Source : FREEPIK Sony and Honda collaborate for new EV company  Sony, the tech giant and Honda, the automaker company have collaborated to establish a new company. The new company will engage in the sale of high-value-added electric vehicles (EVs) and provide services for mobility. The new joint venture will be named Sony Honda Mobility and it aims to bring together the expertise of Honda and Sony. Kenichiro Yoshida, Representative Corporate Executive Officer, Chairman, President and CEO, Sony Group…

Freya Pratty / Sifted: Proximie, whose AR tech enables surgeons to virtually collaborate during surgeries, has raised an $80M Series C, bringing its total funding to $129M — Proximie, which was founded in 2016, states its mission as saving lives by creating a “borderless operating room”. Freya Pratty / Sifted: Proximie, whose AR tech enables surgeons to virtually collaborate during surgeries, has raised an $80M Series C, bringing its total funding to $129M — Proximie,…

It’s always a good day for hip-hop when two rap veterans collaborate on a record. Today, Juno Award-winning Toronto rapper Tona is back with a new single “Glory,” featuring Kardinal Offishall. The track—produced by Toronto beatsmith The Kount—is reminiscent of any old school hip-hop anthem, merging cunning wordplay and vivid storytelling with striking 808s and streams of horns, as the high-level lyricists pay tribute to their artistic journey. “The one thing we always put emphasis on in our city of Toronto is unlocking…

A vision for how photorealistic, real-time 3D content will revolutionise the role of the in-car Human Machine Interface (HMI) has brought Epic Games and Volvo Cars together. The underlying technology will be Unreal Engine, the visualisation tool developed by Epic Games and used to power one of the world’s largest games, Fortnite. Unreal Engine will run on the HMI, providing state-of-the-art graphics alongside a host of…

Waymo Via, the self-driving trucking unit of Alphabet Inc, and Uber Technology Inc.'s Freight business said they signed a long-term strategic partnership that would allow future customers to deploy autonomous trucks more efficiently. The companies did not share a timeline for when their partnership could be used by paying customers, and Waymo and Uber Freight declined to disclose financial details of the agreement. Under the partnership, future Waymo customers can use Uber Freight to more efficiently plan their automated…

Billy Porter & Luke Evans Are Set To Star In The Custody-Battle Drama ‘Our Son’, A Bill Oliver Directorial Billy Porter and Luke Evans are set to star in the custody-battle drama ‘Our Son’, a Bill Oliver directorial. The film written by Oliver and Peter Nickowitz follows the story of a divorcing couple fighting for custody of their 8-year-old son, reports ‘Deadline’. According to ‘Deadline’, Fernando Loureiro and Guilherme Coelho will produce via their company, Tigresa, along with Eric Binns. CAA…

Snapchat has announced a new Shared Stories feature to the platform. This feature will allow users who have already been added to a Shared Stories group, to invite other Snapchatters into that group to view and contribute to the story. However, the original version of the Snapchat Stories, which was known as Custom Stories, only allowed added friends to view the stories on the app. The social media platform has tried to keep the contents of the group safe by using automatic language detection and some other review tools…

Snapchat has updated its Custom Stories feature to allow more people to participate. While the original version of the feature only gives you a way to add friends to view and contribute to your Stories, the new version called Shared Stories allows the friends you add to add their own contacts. Say you're cooking and want your friends to add their cooking Stories, too — just add them to the group, so they can add more people, as well. Snap says that makes it easier "for the whole soccer team, camp squad, or group of new…

Conflux and GKN Additive announced today they would cooperate on development, design and production of 3D printed heat exchangers in Europe. These have been shown to improve cooling of critical components in the automotive industry by using the design freedom made possible by 3D printing. Conflux brings expertise in the design and development of thermal management products and GKN Additive brings extensive experience in…

Mahindra and Mahindra has kept it no secret that it will be joining the electric mobility race with a trifecta of EV SUVs. However, recently the company has made a huge announcement regarding its electric future that it will be collaborating with German auto giant Volkswagen AG to explore the use of VW’s MEB electric components for Mahindra’s new “Born Electric Platform”. Both of the cooperating companies stated that they have signed a Partnering Agreement to assess the scope of their collaboration. Mahindra intends to…