• Oregon Family Stranded in Snowy Mountain Due to 'Shortest Route' GPS Direction

  A family from Portland, Oregon has reportedly been stranded in a snowy mountain road due to the "shortest route" direction given to them by their GPS device.

  

• How Tech Tries to Help San Francisco's Homeless

  Big and small tech companies have all been trying to bridge the gap to address the lack of services for the homeless in the US, which now is amounting to around 1.56 million, or 0.5% of the population. Of this, San Francisco ranks second with 795 people per 100,000 residents.

  

• California and Michigan Approve of Self-Driving Cars: What This Means for the Future of Driving

  Michigan is the first US state to approve of statewide self-driving regulations that can allow the testing, deployment and sale of self-driving (also called autonomous) cars. The state of California has also recently approved of the testing of Nvidia's self-driving cars on public roads. Earlier, the state has already released permits for Mercdes-Benz, Tesla, Ford, GM, Faraday Future and NextEV on the public road testing of their autonomous cars.

  

• Xbox One vs. PS 4: Why Xbox One Is a Better Bet Than PS4 in Racing Games

  The game console industry has seen a lot of competition between Sony's PS4 and Microsoft's Xbox One, and it can be tempting to get into the craze without really knowing the difference between the two.

  

• Why DirecTV's Service Is So Poor Despite Just on Its Second Week of Operations

  With AT&T's release of DirecTV, a streaming service that is promised not to "count against its customers' data caps," subscribers are furious with DirecTV's poor service despite just being on its second week on air. The new service was officially launched on November 30.