As 3D home theaters become more common, the natural inclination is to ask for more. Imagine having a vibrating couch that synchronizes with your movies and video games. Apparently, you don’t need many gadgets to make it happen. Valentin Fage, French entrepreneur and CEO of Immersit believes the only extra thing you need is a motion device that could make your couch, seat or bed tile, rotate or vibrate with up to a thousand different motions.
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It had to happen sometime.
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Huawei wants to sell you a large form-factor tablet that could replace your laptop, and it’s cheaper than the competition too. Forbes contributor Ian Morris has details on the Huawei tablet that runs Windows 10.
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US online retail giant Amazon’s new tie-up with Morrisons, the fourth largest chain of supermarkets in Britain, underscores American the web retailers’ ambition to be the pipe through which everything is delivered. While Amazon latest quarterly results disappointed on the earnings front, the move is akin to an ongoing land grab. And, Amazon is investing heavily on that score.
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Hoy no es un día cualquiera. Hoy es 29 de febrero, una fecha bastante especial, ya que solo se repite en nuestro calendario cada cuatro años. La culpa de que este excepcional día se cuele en nuestra agenda la tiene nada menos q…
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Not all software needs to be newly reinvented today. We can automate and reuse certain elements of functionality such as a word processor’s spellchecker intelligence. The same kind of thing might happen for a clock, a calculator, a currency converter or some other ?element? of software that has the potential to be used elsewhere. Automation intelligence in virtualized abstraction layers across software-defined cloud computing services is the new shape of IT.
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Mobile operators are unable to roll out digital services fast enough to meet growing demand and this spells opportunity for smaller, more agile content providers as well as more modern services like Facebook and Netflix, says a new survey commissioned by telecom and IT solutions provider Tecnotree and carried out by analysts at mobilesquared, who provide data and intelligence on the mobile industry.
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Online piracy can be reduced by offering convenient and reasonably priced content, as Kanye West learned the hard way.
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Today is Leap Day, which means that all sorts of deals are available. But Motorola is offering a sale that goes longer than just one day. Until March 7, Motorola is offering the 16GB Moto G (3rd Gen) for just $199. This is $20 off the regular price, which already offers immense bang for your buck. At just under $200, the Moto G (3rd Gen) is a steal, packing in a combination of useful and respectable features.
If you pick up the device, you can expect to find a 5-inch 720p display with Gorilla Glass, 1.4GHz quad-core Snapdragon 410 processor, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of storage plus microSD card slot, 13-megapixel rear camera, 5-megapixel front-facing camera, 2470mAh battery, 4G LTE support and Android 5.1.1 Lollipop, which has already been update to Android 6.0 Marhsmallow in Europe, with the rest of the world following soon.
The Moto G (3rd Gen) is a fantastic phone with a price that’s easy on the wallet. It’s definitely worth owning if you’re on a budget or if you simply want to have a backup phone in case something happens to your daily driver. Remember, this sale only lasts through March 7, so don’t take more than a couple of days to think on it.
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Google’s self-driving cars have had a spotless driving record so far. After over a million miles of driving in some tough cities (let’s be fair, California drivers aren’t exactly great), there hasn’t been a single crash where the car was at fault. The few times a self driving car has been damaged is either someone running into it or a human was driving it.
Well, that was true until now. A Google self-driving car has gotten into its first crash in which it was at fault. The details are below:
“A Google Lexus-model autonomous vehicle (“Google AV”) was traveling in autonomous mode eastbound on El Camino Real in Mountain View in the far right-hand lane approaching the Castro St. intersection. As the Google AV approached the intersection, it signaled its intent to make a right turn on red onto Castro St. The Google AV then moved to the right-hand side of the lane to pass traffic in the same lane that was stopped at the intersection and proceeding straight. However, the Google AV had to come to a stop and go around sandbags positioned around a storm drain that were blocking its path. When the light turned green, traffic in the lane continued past the Google AV. After a few cars had passed, the Google AV began to proceed back into the center of the lane to pass the sand bags. A public transit bus was approaching from behind. The Google AV test driver saw the bus approaching in the left side mirror but believed the bus would stop or slow to allow the Google AV to continue. Approximately three seconds later, as the Google AV was reentering the center of the lane it made contact with the side of the bus. The Google AV was operating in autonomous mode and traveling at less than 2 mph, and the bus was travelling at about 15 mph at the time of contact. The Google AV sustained body damage to the left front fender, the left front wheel and one of its driver’s -side sensors. There were no injuries reported at the scene.”
It’s kind of a mixed bag. On one hand, it would have been nice if the bus had yielded to a car trying to get around an obstacle. But legally, the bus had the right of way, and the self-driving car should have yielded to a bus coming. Human intuition is one thing, and expecting the bus to yield is reasonable, but the self-driving car should have been more careful.
Thankfully, one crash in the history of the many Google self-driving cars out there still means the cars are far safer than human drivers. This bug can be fixed, and hope in these cars should not be lost.
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