Google Patented a Sticky Car Hood That Traps Pedestrians Like Flies


Google Patented a Sticky Car Hood That Traps Pedestrians Like Flies
Yesterday, Google was awarded a patent that proposes placing a strong adhesive on the hood of its autonomous cars. This way, pedestrians or cyclists who happen to find themselves being struck by a Googlemobile would be protected from what’s called “secondary impact.”

May 18, 2016 at 07:45PM
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Google to make it easier to discover apps in Beta

Signing up for an app that’s in Beta has always been a cumbersome process. You’ll usually be invited to try a Beta app through a link that puts you on a whitelist to download the latest build of such apps. The problem with this model that has been plaguing it for a while, is that the system always took several moments for the Beta request to go through before you could even download the application.

Google is taking new steps in order to make it simpler for people to discover new apps in Beta by putting these apps in the search results for the general public to download and access. This…

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Apple’s Secret Weapon To Create A Seductive iPhone 7

Every week seems to bring another note from the supply chain about Apple dropping another key feature from the upcoming iPhone 7. With many popular features from rival handsets not expected to arrive until 2017’s presumptively titled iPhone 8, it’s nice to read about one technology that I hope Apple will bring to the iPhone 7. With so much ‘gee whizz’ delayed a year, could wireless charging be the big attraction of this year’s flagship iPhone launch?

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