Boeing announced today that it has signed a new, $3 billion deal with Iran's Aseman Airlines for 30 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, the company's newest commercial airplane.

[naviga:h2]Boeing strikes $3B deal with Iran airline[/naviga:h2]

TEHRAN, Iran — Boeing said on today it has signed a new, $3 billion deal with Iran’s Aseman Airlines to supply 30 of the 737 MAX aircraft to the carrier, the first major sale by a U.S. company to the Islamic Republic under new President Donald Trump.

The new agreement comes on top of the $16.6 billion sale Boeing previously made in Iran following the landmark nuclear deal struck with Tehran under the Obama administration. Trump long has criticized the atomic deal, though he toured a Boeing plant in February and touted the firm’s work as proof of a coming American manufacturing renaissance.

Chicago-based Boeing said the first deliveries would start in 2022.

[naviga:h2]Companies work to make driverless cars[/naviga:h2]

FRANKFURT, Germany — Automaker Daimler AG and parts supplier Bosch Group are teaming up to make driverless cars that they say could be on city streets at the start of the next decade.

The companies would combine expertise in car-making, sensors and software so that people in a specific part of town could order a shared car through their smart phone.

The companies said today the system would let people make better use of their time in cars and help those who do not have driver’s licenses.

The auto industry and tech firms have been investing heavily in autonomous driving technology.

[naviga:h2]Berners-Lee gets top computing prize[/naviga:h2]

SAN FRANCISCO — Most people who use Google, Facebook and Amazon have never heard of Sir Tim Berners-Lee. But they might not be using any of those sites had he not invented the World Wide Web.

Berners-Lee, 61, is this year’s recipient of the A.M. Turing Award, computing’s version of the Nobel Prize.

Today’s award announcement by the Association for Computing Machinery marks another pinnacle for Berners-Lee, a British native, who has already been knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and named as one of the 100 most important people in the 20th Century by Time magazine.

The honor comes with a $1 million prize.