For some safety experts, Uber’s self-driving taxi test isn’t something to hail
Uber’s decision to bring self-driving taxis to the streets of Pittsburgh this week is raising alarms among a swath of safety experts who say that the technology is not nearly ready for prime time.

September 12, 2016 at 11:27AM
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How Joseph Gordon-Levitt Transformed Himself Into Edward Snowden
JGL touches upon the modern surveillance state and talks about the unique challenges of playing a character people are familiar with —how it requires added mastery of the person’s mannerisms and vocals.

September 12, 2016 at 10:51AM
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The slogan for Apple’s (AAPL) new iPhone 7 translates into “This is penis” in Hong Kong
Already, Hong Kongers are enjoying the gaffe. “Without a 3.5mm earbud jack, this is exactly penis,” one Hong Konger commented under a Facebook post.

September 12, 2016 at 10:31AM
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Here’s Some Disembodied, ‘Moo’-ing Robot Mouths Trying To Lick One Another
Okay, Mr. Artist. You did it. You got a “reaction” out of us. We are very, very uncomfortable. We are uncomfortable in ways we didn’t know one could be uncomfortable. So… good job?

September 12, 2016 at 10:01AM
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MIT Has Developed A Camera That Can ‘Read’ Through Closed Books
Now is as good a time as any to say it’s officially the future. Research scientist Barmak Heshmat explains the crazy cool technology his team at MIT has developed which uses terahertz waves to spectroscopically image layered objects like books.

September 12, 2016 at 10:01AM
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Tesla preparing significant Autopilot upgrade, will use radar as ‘primary sensor’
The new Tesla autopilot feature will use the car’s camera, radar and a “geocoded whitelist” to avoid crashes.

September 12, 2016 at 07:28AM
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How Chromebooks Are About to Totally Transform Laptop Design
Chromebooks outsold Macs for the first time in the first quarter of this year, and according to Google, US schools buy more Chromebooks than all other devices combined. And even now, the Chrome OS revolution is only beginning.

September 12, 2016 at 07:28AM
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Drone With Massive Claws Will Carry You And Your Entire Family Into The Stratosphere
Say goodbye to anything smaller than a car, it belongs to this drone now.

September 11, 2016 at 06:01PM
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PSA: Earbuds Are Really, Really Bad For Your Ears
Have years of wearing earbuds cranked up to 11 damaged your hearing? Here’s a simple experiment that can show you how bad earbuds are for your ears.

September 11, 2016 at 10:56AM
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William Gibson’s cyberpunk stories show why Apple is getting rid of cords.
In works like William Gibson’s “Neuromancer” cords were cyber’s punk counterpoint: The knowledge that we still had to plug in assured us that we could always unplug if things got weird. A cord was punk because it was crummy — because it inevitably fell out, frayed, or failed — and because it was punk it held out a distant possibility of resistance.

September 11, 2016 at 08:22AM
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