iPhone 7 Will Finally Get Rid Of Outdated Home Button

We are less than a month away from the release of the new iPhone, likely to be called the iPhone 7, and the leaks won’t stop coming. Courtesy of Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman comes further confirmation that the new Apple device will use a dual-camera setup and have no headphone jack. But the most exciting news to me is this: Apple will apparently finally do away with the iPhone’s very outdated home button.

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Samsung’s Latests Smartphone Gamble Is A Risky Bet On Innovation

Samsung’s push to be seen as different and relevant has created one of the more interesting quirks in smartphone design over the last few years with the ‘Edge’ displays. The South Korean company now looks ready to take those lessons and focus on only providing edge-screen enabled smartphones in the future.

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Interview: Remember The Budweiser Rocket Car? Driver Stan Barrett On His 739 MPH Run

In 1979, stuntman Stan Barrett took the famous Budweiser rocket car above 700 mph at Edwards Air Force Base in California. It was the culmination of project S.O.S., designed to send a human supersonic on land. Like any extreme exploration feat, there were doubters as to whether the car in fact had broken the sound barrier. Barrett says he hit 739.666 mph, or Mach 1.01, after igniting a sidewinder missile during the run. 

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Robotic Swedish Speed Bump Doesn’t Mess Around


Robotic Swedish Speed Bump Doesn’t Mess Around
If your only knowledge of speed bumps is the lumps America puts in its roads to scare drivers into slowing down, you’d be in for a rude awakening in Sweden, where they use radar guns and mechanized sections of the road to make sure you’re definitely adhering to the speed limit.

August 8, 2016 at 06:36PM
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