Baidu is to launch its self-driving car technology for restricted environment in July before gradually introducing fully autonomous driving capabilities on motorways and open city roads by 2020.

Wondering how to keep your teenager busy this summer when summer jobs are thin on the ground? Fancy tipping your toe back into education? Grainne McGuinness is raving about MOOCs, short online courses, many of which are free.

Google is dabbling with getting computers to simulate the learning process of the human brain as one of the unusual projects for researchers in its X Lab.