Honda launched Accord 2016 at the San Francisco Bay Area with Apple's CarPlay and Android Auto. The car manufacturer also opened its Mountain View Research and Development Facility, which will concentrate on developing new technologies for upcoming editions.

NASA astronauts KJell Lindgren from the United States, Kimiya Yui from Japan and Oleg Kononenko from Russia had headed off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a five-month mission to the International Space Station.

District 43 assembly member Mike Gatto and Sen. Ted Gaines wrote Senate Bill 167 and 168 intended to penalize drone operators for flying near the wildfire site in Sacramento, California.

After their game-changing team-up on the first generation of the Nexus tablet, tech stalwarts Asus and Google have collaborated once more on a hardware project, this time resulting in the release of the Asus Chromebook Flip.

Apple may have exceeded internal targets for third quarter of fiscal year 2015, but Wall Street is not impressed. In its earnings report, the company announced that sales of iPhone, which represents more than half of Apple's business, had increased.Apple sold 47.5 million iPhone units.

Starting August 1, AT&T will charge $45 for new installations and upgrades to those who are under a one to two-year contract. AT&T will also charge another $15 activation fee for the new subscribers of AT&T Next even if you bring your own phone.

Chipmaker Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) said it may break itself up as it delivered its third profit warning this year and announced plans to slash jobs and spending in the face of rising competition.

New York moved on Wednesday to raise the minimum wage for fast-food workers to $15 an hour by the end of 2018 in New York City and by mid-2021 in the rest of the state.

Since the alleged approval of "Project Titan" by Apple CEO Tim Cook in 2014 has been leaked last February, rumors about the company developing an autonomous car have persisted. This week, thoughts about the confidential electric car project are again reinforced with the appointment of new car experts.

Tom Wheeler, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission declared that he's supporting the $48 billion merging of AT&T and DirecTV. Though, the approval from five of his colleagues is still pending.