New York Wants Google Maps To Reduce Left Turn Instructions
In the ongoing attempt to make New York City streets safer, policymakers have turned to tech giant Google, to ask for help. In a recent report, it was found that New York City has one of the largest accident rates caused my left turning cars. New York City thinks it may be easy to reduce this by reducing the rate of left turn instructions that drivers receive from Google Maps.
July 10, 2015 at 10:41AM
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The Quiet War Squirrels Are Waging on U.S. Stock Exchanges
What do you have against America, squirrels?
July 10, 2015 at 08:34AM
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First electric planes fly over English Channel
Airbus flew its electric plane across the English Channel for the first time Friday — hours after an independent French pilot made a similar voyage, beating the aeronautics giant in this symbolically important step toward making electronic flight viable in the long term.
July 10, 2015 at 07:33AM
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Why I Suddenly Care About Blackberry
Like many before me, I wrote off Blackberry a long, long time ago. But Blackberry running full Android? Ok, I’m listening.
July 9, 2015 at 11:15PM
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Hacking Team Email Jokes About Killing ACLU’s Chris Soghoian
Christopher Soghoian, the ACLU’s Principal Technologist and an outspoken advocate for privacy and free speech, noticed Thursday that Hacking Team employee Daniele Milan joked about gathering enough Bitcoins to pay for his assassination. His email was dated April 16.
July 9, 2015 at 09:26PM
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What You Should Read
Yesterday, a computer glitch halted trading on the New York Stock Exchange for three hours. Here are three stories you should read in order to form a coherent and informed opinion about that.
July 9, 2015 at 01:18PM
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You’ll be able to try Apple’s iOS 9 starting today
For the first time for a major iOS release, Apple is making a beta version available to the public.
July 9, 2015 at 12:31PM
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Pornhub’s TwerkingButt promises VR porn/the end of humanity
Twerk is in the dictionary now and Pornhub wants the TwerkingButt to be in your bedroom. The vaguely horrifying, hi-tech vibrating sex toy is a pretend posterior that will cost up to $1,000 and comes with a VR headset and companion apps for iOS and Android.
July 9, 2015 at 11:54AM
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Microsoft’s Four Most Costly Blunders Besides Nokia
Remember the Red Ring of Death?
July 9, 2015 at 08:43AM
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IBM Announces Computer Chips More Powerful Than Any in Existence
IBM said on Thursday that it had made working versions of ultradense computer chips, with roughly four times the capacity of today’s most powerful chips.
July 9, 2015 at 07:45AM
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