The Skyactiv-X engine will arrive in 2019. Read the original post by Jack Stewart
Month: August 2017
How Baidu Will Win China’s AI race—and, Maybe, the World’s
In an exclusive interview, Baidu COO Qi Lu explains why the Chinese search giant will be smarter than Alexa and drive better than Google. Read the original post by Jessi Hempel
Ethereum Is Coding’s New Wild West
Ethereum is more than just digital cash. It’s also a decentralized computing platform—and developers are all over it. Read the original post by Gabe Nicholas
Jeff Bezos Should Put His Billions Into Libraries
If Jeff Bezos really wants make an impact, he should look to places where books aren’t sold—but lent. Read the original post by Susan Crawford
Actress ‘caught having sex with stranger’ was actually filming for new series
A man took this picture thinking he'd caught a well-known actress having an affair in the back of a pick-up truck A Brzilian TV star […] Read the original post by Metro
Bitcoin Makes Even Smart People Feel Dumb
When investors love a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin without fully understanding it, things could end badly. Read the original post by Scott Rosenberg
The real-time motion capture behind ‘Hellblade’
In a makeshift changing room filled with Disney Infinity figures, I strip down to my boxers and pull on a two-part Lycra suit. It feels […] Read the original post by Engadget
Hedge Fund Wants Qualcomm to Raise $38 Billion Bid for NXP
DAILY VIDEO: Activist investor pushes Qualcomm to up its $38B NXP bid; Google engineer’s ‘manifesto’ fuels gender discrimination controversy; What Samsung must do right with […] Read the original post by Rajesh Pandey
How Palantir, Peter Thiel’s Secretive Data Company, Pushed Its Way Into Policing
A Backchannel investigation reveals the difficult issues police and communities face when they adopt Palantir’s secretive data-scooping software. Read the original post by Mark Harris
iOS 11 public beta: The pre-release features Apple needs to fix before the final release
All summer, the iOS 11 public beta has been delivering a bunch of impressive new features, but some are not quite ready for primetime. In this […] Read the original post by Oscar Raymundo
Microsoft Previews Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows Server
Windows Subsystem for Linux, one of last year’s most noteworthy additions to the Windows 10 operating system, is now available in a preview version of […] Read the original post by Ali Hassan Mahdi
Fire, New NVMe Devices Top News at Flash Memory Summit
Seagate’s corporate booth caught fire Aug. 8, sending several hundred of the conference’s 4,000 attendees in the main exhibition hall running for the exits. Read the original post by Ali Hassan Mahdi
Phoenix Jailbreak for iOS 9.3.5 Updated to v3.0 to Fix Custom Offsets
The Phoenix jailbreak for iOS 9.3.5 which was released a couple days back has just received another update to version 3.0, which fixes custom offsets. […] Read the original post by Ali Hassan Mahdi
Apple’s ‘Carpool Karaoke: The Series’ Available On Apple Music
Apple's desire to get into the video entertainment game is pretty well-known and was made more clear last year when they bought the rights to […] Read the original post by Ubergizmo
Nokia 8 Leaked, ‘Confirms’ Specs In The Process
The Nokia 8 is expected to be the company's flagship smartphone. So far HMD Global has released quite a few Nokia handsets, but none of […] Read the original post by Ubergizmo