Saturday, August 27, 2016

How The Hell Did Tesla Get The Model S Landboat To Go 0–60 MPH In 2.5 Seconds? and other top stories.

  • How The Hell Did Tesla Get The Model S Landboat To Go 0–60 MPH In 2.5 Seconds?

    How The Hell Did Tesla Get The Model S Landboat To Go 0–60 MPH In 2.5 Seconds?
    The Tesla Model S is a big car. It's in the “large luxury sedan” or “full-size luxury car” class (or, depending on your country and preferred classification, some similar variation that indicates to buyers it is big). It's a completely unsurprising ...
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  • Pinterest acquires Instapaper, which will live on as a separate app

    Pinterest acquires Instapaper, which will live on as a separate app
    Pinterest said today that it would be acquiring the team behind Instapaper, which will continue operating as a separate app. The Instapaper team will both work on the core Pinterest experience and updating Instapaper. Pinterest’s logic here is that one of the company’s core tenets is bookmarking — much like Instapaper’s primary goal with its app. The company has been on an aggressive acquisition binge in the past few months. In July, Pinterest acquihired the team behind Highlight and Shorts. I..
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  • First on CNN: FBI investigating Russian hack of New York Times reporters, others

    First on CNN: FBI investigating Russian hack of New York Times reporters, others
    Story highlightsUS officials believe Russian hackers have targeted news organizationsThe breaches are thought to be part of a larger effort aimed at the US political systemThe intrusions, detected in recent months, are under investigation by the FBI and other US security agencies. Investigators so far believe that Russian intelligence is likely behind the attacks and that Russian hackers are targeting news organizations as part of a broader series of hacks that also have focused on Democratic Pa..
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  • [Update: Honor 5X confirmed] Honor promises at least 24 months of OS updates for current and future phones

    [Update: Honor 5X confirmed] Honor promises at least 24 months of OS updates for current and future phones
    ... Most OEMs don't have much of a reputation for providing timely and consistent OS updates. There are a few exceptions here and there — LG's V20 is set to become the first non-Nexus smartphone to launch with Nougat sometime around September — but while there may be a growing trend for devices to receive major updates shortly after they're released, it is much rarer to see them getting software support for more than a year or so. Only last year did Google begin promising 3 years of securit..
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  • China unveils 2020 Mars mission probe and rover

    China unveils 2020 Mars mission probe and rover
    Image copyright REuters/SASTIND China has given the world a first glimpse of its design for the space probe and rover it plans to use in its first mission to Mars.It intends to launch its mission in mid-2020.As part of the announcement in Beijing, the authorities also launched a public competition to come up with a name and logo for the voyager.China's ambitious space programme has been progressing at a rapid pace in recent years.On 16 August it launched a potentially groundbreaking quantum..
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  • This flying egg drone is yours to preorder for $1288

    This flying egg drone is yours to preorder for $1288
    The PowerEgg is up and flying. Those aren't words I expected to write this morning, but sometimes life surprises you. The Egg in question is actually a drone made by Chinese company PowerVision. Renders of the craft were first shown off earlier this year, but now the company has actually demonstrated that their drone can fly. It's even available for pre-order — yours for $1,288, with a shipping date scheduled for this October. We've still got questions about the PowerEgg though. Although a few ..
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  • Steve Wozniak has free advice for Apple on how to fix the iPhone 7's major issue

    Steve Wozniak has free advice for Apple on how to fix the iPhone 7's major issue
    Apple inventor and co-founder Steve Wozniak is known for expressing his opinions on Apple’s products and telling it like it is. Unsurprisingly, the legendary programmer has some free advice for Apple regarding the iPhone 7’s most important “issue,” the absence of the headphone jack. DON’T MISS: The iPhone 7 will obliterate the Galaxy Note 7 and every other smartphone Apple is yet to confirm the new iPhone will lack a standard audio connector, but pretty much expects the iPhone maker to kill t..
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  • Why are microbeads controversial?

    Why are microbeads controversial?
    Image copyright Thinkstock MPs have recommended banning the tiny particles of plastic called "microbeads" which are used in a number of cosmetics and cleaning products. But why have they taken the move?Microbeads is the term given to the little bits of plastic that are sometimes added to products for their abrasive properties.For example, in shower gels these tiny plastic pieces - smaller than 5mm - are designed to remove dry cells from the surface of the skin.They are also found in shower ..
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  • Microsoft sheds some light on its mysterious holographic processing unit

    Microsoft sheds some light on its mysterious holographic processing unit
    Enlarge / The HPU's floorplan.Microsoft reader comments 37 Since it was first unveiled, we've learned bits and pieces about the hardware inside Microsoft's HoloLens augmented reality headset. But Microsoft's custom Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) has always posed something of a mystery. At Hot Chips this week, the company finally shed a little light on what its special chip is doing. Ever since we first used HoloLens, we knew that it had some special hardware. Our first units weren't the..
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