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Uber Air sees the ride-hailing company taking to the skies and hoping to trim commute times, albeit for a price.

At Microsoft’s E3 Xbox briefing, we were totally shook when a likeness of Keanu Reeves appeared at the end of the new trailer for Cyberpunk 2077. Oh, and we know the launch date now.

The internet currently accesses about 15 zettabytes of data, and is growing at a rate of 70 terabytes per second. It is an admittedly leaky vessel, and content is constantly going offline to wind up lost forever.

Xbox’s Project Scarlett has been in the pipeline for what feels like forever — thanks to E3 2019, we now have some concrete specs. And they look oddly familiar.

Driverless cars could revolutionise people’s lives. By the end of the next decade, or perhaps even sooner, they could radically transform public spaces and liberate us from the many problems of mass car ownership. They’ll also be much better behaved than human drivers.

But the big news on Monday was that the Department of Justice was investigating Google and Apple; while the and Federal Trade Commission (FTCO is looking into Facebook and Amazon. All of accused of anticompetitive tactics for promoting their own services over that of rivals.

So you’re wondering whether Google’s Stadia game streaming service is going to be launching here in South Africa. According to our remote reporter, Captain Obvious, South Africa’s going to be left off the initial rollout. Google Stadia, according to the search company, will be launching in November this year in fourteen countries. South Africa, unsurprisingly, will not be one of them. 

Samsung’s next high-end smartphone is going to be the Galaxy Note 10. That’s not the result of leaks, or any thing official Samsung has said. That’s just the way the world works now. And, just like the sun rising every morning, it’s about time for us to get an early, unofficial look at the Galaxy Note 10. 

Jaguar Land Rover and BMW have announced they’re going to work together developing next-gen electric drive units (EDUs).

Google is killing off its Trips app in August 2019 and rolling many of its features into Google’s ‘travel’ service and Google Maps.