Andrew Evers

4 weeks ago | cnbc.com | Andrew Evers |Kate Rooney

Another major player has entered the quantum-computing race: Amazon. The tech giant is the latest to make waves in the field with the February announcement of Ocelot, its own quantum chip. Amazon joins fierce competition from familiar rivals in cloud computing as Google, Microsoft and others race after what they say could be their next frontier. While Amazon is widely known as an e-commerce giant, its business took a pivotal and profitable turn in 2006 with the launch of Amazon Web Services.

4 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Andrew Evers |Kate Rooney

3 hours agoMuch of the headwaters are located in India, despite most irrigation systems falling in Pakistan. “Around 80% of Pakistan's agriculture and the third of its hydropower depends on the water from the Indus Basin region,” says Bharadwaj. “There is a greater dependency on this basin for Pakistan than …

2 months ago | cnbc.com | Andrew Evers |Lora Kolodny

Elon Musk has been promising investors for about a decade that Tesla's cars are on the verge of turning into robotaxis, capable of driving themselves cross-country, after one big software update. That hasn't happened yet. What Tesla offers is a sophisticated, but only partially automated, driving system that's marketed in the U.S. as its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) option, though many Tesla fans refer to it as FSD.

2 months ago | cnbc.com | Andrew Evers

With the debut of Tesla's dedicated robotaxi, the Cybercab, and plans to launch a driverless ride-hailing service in Austin, Texas, this June, Elon Musk's vision for autonomy is being put to the test. To guage its progress, CNBC took multiple rides with Tesla owners using Full Self-Driving (Supervised), experiencing its strengths, weaknesses and ongoing evolution. While fans remain optimistic, experts are skeptical. With just months to go, will Musk's driverless dream finally become reality?

Jan 17, 2025 | cnbc.com | Kate Rooney |Andrew Evers

Tech might not be the first thing that comes to mind when one pictures Phoenix. The city is better known for its golf courses, Major League Baseball's Spring Training, retirement appeal and scorching heat. But its growth into an innovation hub has been quietly playing out over several decades. Arizona's largest city has, for a variety of reasons, become the epicenter for semiconductor manufacturing, and testing self-driving cars and drones.