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Aurora and Continental pass first major hurdle in commercial self-driving trucks deal

TechCrunch

Aurora and automotive supplier Continental have wrapped up the first phase of a more than $300 million project to mass produce autonomous vehicle hardware for commercial self-driving trucks. The two companies said Friday that the design and system architecture of an autonomous vehicle hardware kit is now complete.

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Aptiv’s latest investment shows that software-defined vehicles are here to stay

TechCrunch

Aptiv comes on as a strategic investor at a time when the company is working on accelerating the transition to the software-defined car by offering a complete stack to automakers, one that includes high-performance hardware, cloud connectivity and a software architecture that is open, scalable and containerized. .

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Edge Computing: Use Cases, Key Providers, and Implementation Options

Altexsoft

In practice, three types of computing are just different layers of a system for processing IoT data. In most cases, the layers exchange information via MQTT (message queue telemetry transport) — a lightweight IoT protocol for pub/sub communications. Edge computing architecture. Let’s look at how it works in real life.

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