Daily Archives: October 14, 2016

Here’s How Google’s Pixel Can Benefit From Samsung’s Reputation Loss

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As Samsung’s engineers worked overtime to identify the cause behind its exploding Note 7 smartphones, their inability to replicate the explosions in a controlled environment led to the scrapping of the model. Samsung’s announcement that it would stop production of the Galaxy Note 7 could not have come at a better time for Alphabet’s (NASDAQ:GOOG, GOOGL) subsidiary Google. Its newly launched smartphone “Pixel” just lost a major competitor. (Read What Does Google Aim To Accomplish With The Pixel?). Furthermore, a recent survey revealed that 40% of Samsung smartphone owners (of the survey population of 1,000) would not buy another device from the manufacturers, after the recent Note 7 fiasco, impacting its reputation negatively. While Pixel lacks a standout hardware feature that can differentiate it from rival devices and excite customers, Samsung’s reputation loss can lead to consumers flocking towards the “safer” and faster Pixel. We believe that, since the launch of Pixel coincides with the end of Samsung’s Note 7, Google can get a head start in the smartphone market and gain market share from Samsung.

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German Government Asks Tesla To Rename “Autopilot,” And Drivers To Read Their Owner’s Manual

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The German government took the highly unusual step of notifying some 2,500 Tesla drivers in the country that the “Autopilot” cannot make their car drive autonomously. The Federal Motor Authority told Tesla owners in a letter that the Autopilot function is purely a driver assistance system and not a highly-automated vehicle that can be operated without the driver’s constant attention, Reuters reports.  Probably more painfully for the Californian carmaker “Tesla has been asked to find a new name for the system,” writes the mass-circulation BILD Zeitung.

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PSA: Entity name changes in latest snapshots broke most commandblock creations via /r/Minecraft

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PSA: Entity name changes in latest snapshots broke most commandblock creations

I reckon many posts have been made about this already, but I wanted to throw in mine as well, as well on how to easily fix commands that are affected by this change.

So, in the 1.11 Snapshots Mojang renamed many entities or put an underscore in the entity name. This ofcourse has its benefits but naturally also brings a lot of disadvantages to the table, the main one being that all commandblock contraptions that use entities won't work anymore in 1.11 if they use the 'old' name of an entity.
All the changes can be found here.

Now, to easily fix your commands for 1.11, the most obvious solution is ofcourse to manually replace all the old entity names with the new ones. However, for longer commands this might be too time-consuming. I found the easiest way to do this is to copy&paste the command into a text editor (such as Notepad) and use replace (usually Ctrl+H) (This thing).
Then write the names you want to change and then click on 'Replace everything' and you should be good to go!
Sorry for the different language, I might or might not have been too lazy to change my Notepad's language.

Also, keep in mind that if you change your commands so they work in 1.11, they won't work in 1.10 and below anymore as those versions ofcourse still use the old entity names.

Anyways, I hope I helped. If you have any question feel free to leave them and I'll try to answer them ASAP.

Submitted October 14, 2016 at 07:27AM by Exitrida
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Humanity Has Built A Robot That Sweats From Its Bones

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Humanity Has Built A Robot That Sweats From Its Bones
Kengoro is a humanoid robot that has over 100 motors. Like humans, when Kengoro is moving around he gets hot. Also sorta like humans, Kengoro has a cooling system that drips deionized water into the motors to keep them cool. Unlike humans, Kengoro can do pushups for 11 minutes straight and cannot feel pain.

October 14, 2016 at 12:15PM
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