Thursday, October 20, 2016

Will new MacBooks finally make it easier to pick the perfect Apple laptop? and other top stories.

  • Will new MacBooks finally make it easier to pick the perfect Apple laptop?

    Now that invites for the October 27 Apple event have seen sent out, there's much speculation about what we will, and won't, see from a purported new generation of MacBook Pro laptops. Thus far, the generally agreed-upon predictions -- as rounded up by Macrumors -- are:New MacBook Pros with a thinner, lighter design and a secondary touchscreen at the top of the keyboard. That tiny screen is said to be replacing the function key row and providing context-based commands -- different "soft" buttons ..
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  • Facebook CEO Zuckerberg reportedly defends PayPal co-founder for supporting Trump

    Facebook CEO Zuckerberg reportedly defends PayPal co-founder for supporting Trump
    Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly defended PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel after his support for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump drew criticism. Thiel, a Facebook board member, donated $1.25 million to Trump’s campaign this week after several woman accused him of sexual assault.  Zuckerberg commented on Thiel’s decision to support Trump and the importance of having diversity. A leaked screen shot was reported by Hacker News in what appears to be a staff memo to Facebook employe..
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  • Every Tesla car will contain the hardware to drive itself

    Every Tesla car will contain the hardware to drive itself
    Tesla Motors’ cars will come fitted with full self-driving hardware, as the company jousts with tech rivals like Google and car makers like Ford who are making a dash for the autonomous car market. Model S and Model X cars with the inbuilt hardware are already in production and customers can buy one, Tesla said Wednesday. But the features possible with the new hardware will be enabled only later through over-the-air updates after testing over “millions of miles of real-world driving,” Tesla ..
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  • First Click: The return of Nintendo

    First Click: The return of Nintendo
    The wait for the N64 was interminable But this practice was best illustrated by the launch of the Nintendo 64, a drawn-out process that makes the wait for the NX seem almost trivial. Picture the scene: it's 1994, and Sony's PlayStation is already on the market, but Nintendo's own machine is still years off. The company could rush production on its new console, which had been codenamed "Project Reality," or keep quiet and let Sony take an easy win. Instead, Nintendo took a different approach, se..
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  • Monkeys spotted making stone tools thought to be unique to humans

    Monkeys spotted making stone tools thought to be unique to humans
    Stone flakes excite archaeologists hunting for early human artifacts. The razor-sharp edges that suggest deliberate creation point to someone with skills. Generally, that someone is human.But stone flake production might not be so special, according to a paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Capuchin monkeys can make stone flakes too."It's an incredibly interesting behavior," says study lead author Tomos Proffitt, an archaeologist at the University of Oxford. "Another species is maki..
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  • Heard of LeEco? Well, They're About to Sell You Everything

    Heard of LeEco? Well, They're About to Sell You Everything
    If you’ve heard of LeEco, it’s either because you’ve lived in China, or you vaguely recall that it bought up US television manufacturer Vizio a few months ago. That’s about to change, because LeEco is making a play for entire US market. What are they selling? Everything. It would be helpful here to explain what LeEco (LAY-EEco) is, but easy comparisons fall short. It’s most commonly known as the Netflix of China, but its streaming services predates Netflix, and constitute just a portion of LeEc..
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  • Galaxy Note 7 owners are angry Samsung is refusing to pay compensation

    Galaxy Note 7 owners are angry Samsung is refusing to pay compensation
    The Note 7 recall has already passed into Halloween costume territory, but for owners of the phone who experienced its dangers first hand, it's not as funny. According to a report from The Guardian, a number of individuals who suffered property damage when their Note 7 exploded say Samsung is resisting paying compensation. In one story in the report, Note 7 owner John Barwick was woken in the middle of the night by the smartphone bursting into flames on his nightstand. He says the resulting fir..
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  • [ October 19, 2016 ] ESA celebrates ExoMars orbiter success, keeps vigil for lost lander News

    [ October 19, 2016 ] ESA celebrates ExoMars orbiter success, keeps vigil for lost lander News
    Artist’s concept of the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter firing its main engine to enter orbit around Mars. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab A European-built orbiter designed to seek out the source of methane on Mars slipped into orbit around the red planet Wednesday after a seven-month interplanetary journey, but mission control lost contact with an experimental landing probe just before touchdown. Both spacecraft — part of the joint European-Russian ExoMars program — reached Mars around the same time Wednes..
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