Technology News
Tesla Semi demand shows no signs of slowing down
BGR - 7 Sep 2018 05:01
Nearly a year after Tesla introduced the Tesla Semi to the world, demand for Tesla's all-electric semi-truck shows no signs of slowing down. Less than four weeks after the unveiling, Tesla was already fielding pre-orders...
A Hands-On Review of the Fujifilm X-T3 (with Sample 4K Footage)
PetaPixel - 7 Sep 2018 19:30Top-grossing Mac App Store app steals users' browser histories
Engadget - 7 Sep 2018 18:49
Adware Doctor is a top app in Apple's Mac App Store, sitting at number five in the list of top paid apps and leading the list of top utilities apps, as of writing. It says it's meant to prevent "malware and malicious fil...
AI robots can develop prejudices, just like us mere mortals
Engadget - 7 Sep 2018 07:10
It's not only humans and animals that can hold biases against outsiders. Psychology and computer science researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cardiff University have discovered that artificial i...
Fortnite 'High Stakes' limited time event week 9 challenge guide
Digital Trends - 7 Sep 2018 06:06
The Fortnite High Stakes limited time event has arrived in Battle Royale with the release of patch 5.40 and the week 9 challenges. This special event The Getaway mode comes with its own set of challenges and unique rewar...
Physical copies of 'Jurassic World' come with an AR baby raptor experience
Engadget - 7 Sep 2018 05:40
The franchise hype leading up to the theatrical release of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom earlier in the summer included a slew of AR and VR games. Unsurprisingly, there's another on the way to celebrate the film's home ...
Official: Google Chrome 69 kills off the World Wide Web (in URLs)
The Register - 7 Sep 2018 05:36
Chocolate Factory cuts characters from address bar for the sake of brevity (yeah right) Google Chrome has suddenly stopped displaying . and m. in website addresses in its URL bar, confusing the heck out of some netizens....
Kinta AI uses artificial intelligence to make factories more efficient
TechCrunch - 7 Sep 2018 05:11
Kinta AI aims to make manufacturers smarter about how they deploy their equipment and other factory resources. The company, which is presenting today at TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield in San Francisco, was founded by...
This job posting from Apple could mean its AR glasses are closer to being a real thing
BGR - 7 Sep 2018 03:43
Could Apple's secret effort to bring a pair of AR glasses to fruition be closer to becoming, well, a real product? Maybe, if this job posting that shows Apple is looking to hire a neuroscientist is any indication. The iP...
Copycat military websites caught selling users' personal information - CNET
CNET - 7 Sep 2018 03:10
Fake sites posed as recruitment sites, only to peddle the information as sales leads to schools, the FTC says.
Alex Honnold Climbs Halfway Up a New Jersey Skyscraper
The New Yorker - 7 Sep 2018 23:10
Charles Bethea and Kathryn Palmieri follow the free-solo climber Alex Honnold up the side of the Urby, a luxury apartment building in Jersey City, New Jersey.
These are the best rugged cases for the Samsung Galaxy Note 9
Android Central - 7 Sep 2018 21:00
The Samsung Galaxy Note 9 is the latest phone to push the boundaries for smartphone dimensions — with a price tag to match. The last thing you want is to damage your new phone, so protect your investment with a rugged ...
A Dutch Teenager Had a Dream to Clean Up the World's Oceans. 7 Years On, It's Coming True
Time - 7 Sep 2018 19:40
"We're turning the tide."
Tesla rocked by executive departures, Musk web show
Reuters - 7 Sep 2018 19:16
Tesla Inc's chief accounting officer resigned after just a month on Friday and a second senior executive was reported to be leaving as well, hours after Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk smoked marijuana on a live webcas...
New research suggest Pluto should be reclassified as a planet
Phys.org - 7 Sep 2018 19:12
The reason Pluto lost its planet status is not valid, according to new research from the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
What happens when data scientists crunch through three centuries of Robinson Crusoe?
Phys.org - 7 Sep 2018 19:10
Since Daniel Defoe's shipwreck tale "Robinson Crusoe" was first published nearly 300 years ago, thousands of editions and spinoff versions have been published, in hundreds of languages.
Astrophysicist scores $3 million prize over four decades after being snubbed for a Nobel
BGR - 7 Sep 2018 19:04
Astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell doesn't need to prove anything to anyone. Her career as a scientist and now a professor sort of speaks for itself, but back in the 1970s her work was severely overlooked. Burnell, alon...
Banish those annoying Gmail 'Nudges' from your inbox
Mashable - 7 Sep 2018 19:00Morgan Stanley predicts Apple's 'iPhone Xs' will offset threat of longer replacement cycles
AppleInsider - 7 Sep 2018 18:59
Morgan Stanley's expectations for Apple's "Gather Round" iPhone event are relatively muted, but the impact of new iPhone models could be both a negative and a positive for Apple on a full-year basis, due to the effects o...
Salesforce update uses automation to limit manual tasks, speed sales cycle
TechRepublic - 7 Sep 2018 18:57
Salesforce expanded its Sales Cloud Platform with smarter marketing automation. Here are the new features pros should know.
Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Texas-sized 'island' of trash in ocean, to be tackled by giant floating vessel
Fox News - 7 Sep 2018 18:57
Officials are gearing up for the launch of a floating vessel -- an elaborate plan masterminded by a college dropout -- this weekend with the hope it will act as a giant trash collector and eventually rid the Pacific Ocea...
Despite rumors, 7nm is Not Slowing Down for Qualcomm
TechPinions - 7 Sep 2018 18:46
Reading Time: 3 minutesEarlier this week, a story ran on Digitimes that indicated there might be some problems and slowdown with the rollout of 7nm chip technologies for Qualcomm and MediaTek. Digitimes is a Taiwan-based...