This Is ‘The World’s First’ Computer That Costs Only Nine Bucks
The creators of the Otto, a hackable, animated gif camera are making a 1Ghz, open source embeddable computer that costs only nine dollars.
May 8, 2015 at 11:10AM
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Tesla’s Battery Grabbed $800 Million in Its First Week
We did the math on the early reservations for Elon Musk’s new batteries.
May 8, 2015 at 10:32AM
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Your Netflix binging might be hurting the planet
“When we do something like a Google search, we are using electricity at the point of our own search, we’re using electricity at the point of delivery from the search engine, and we’re also engaged in all kinds of wizardry as we go around the Internet…for the answer to be found. It happens normally very quickly, but we don’t know exactly how that powering is happening.”
May 8, 2015 at 09:34AM
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Amazon details drone delivery plans
Details about how Amazon’s proposed delivery drones may work have been published by the US Patent Office.According to the patent, the drones will be able to track the location of the person it is delivering to by pulling data from their smartphone. The unmanned vehicles will also be able to talk to each other about weather and traffic conditions.
May 8, 2015 at 09:34AM
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Twelve ways to seem smarter by email
Here are some email tricks that will make you appear smart, passionate, dedicated and most of all, smart.
May 8, 2015 at 09:34AM
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How to Teach an Autonomous Car to Drive
An autonomous car needs three basic skills to drive itself around: first, it has to understand where it is; second, it has to figure out what the safest route is to its next location; and third, it must know how to move to that next spot.
May 8, 2015 at 07:36AM
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Keurig says it was wrong to force users to buy single-serving pods
Coffee company Keurig Green Mountain offered something of a mea culpa on Wednesday night, when its CEO admitted that the company had been wrong to build its second-generation coffee makers with tech that prevented users from brewing their own coffee independent of Keurig’s licensing. Keurig Green Mountain stock is currently down 9 percent.
May 7, 2015 at 08:48PM
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Reddit, the Home of “CoonTown,” Promises to “Celebrate Diversity”
Other than broadly geek-approved tenets like Privacy is good and We like net neutrality, Reddit has never been a values-based community, which is why it’s become synonymous with stolen nudes, “men’s rights,” GamerGate, and lonely people ejaculating on anime figurines. But those corners of the site aren’t even its most loathsome.
May 7, 2015 at 08:48PM
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Blind Gamers Are Embracing Developers Who Have an Eye for Accessibility
As mobile games grown into their own, more and more developers are utilizing built-in accessibility features to bring in the visually impaired.
May 7, 2015 at 06:37PM
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On “The Field” with Drone Racers
First-person drone racing is taking off.
May 7, 2015 at 04:30PM
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