[Update] Instead of launching the VR headset, the company has launched a teaser video for the upcoming device on Chinese video sharing website, YouKu. The video doesn’t seem to reveal much about the device except for the fact that that headset will be launched on August 4. Xiaomi may be planning to launch a new…
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Apple Hires The CEO of BlackBerry’s QNX for It’s Car Project
News revolving around Project Titan, the codename for the Apple Car initiative, is starting to pick up again. According to a report from Bloomberg, Apple has started to make some key hires again, as it builds out the team putting together a vehicle with the Apple logo imprinted on it. This new report suggests Apple…
Boost Your Slow Wifi with Your Old FM Radio
Living in a crowded neighborhood can seriously affect your WiFi speed. For those who don’t know, you and the people living around you, have a limited wireless frequency channels that are used by the WiFi networks to move the data. So, if there are more people around you using WiFi, there are good chances that…
The Story Behind Apple and Tesla Model X?
It’s no secret that car companies routinely buy (and tear apart) each other’s vehicles on a regular basis, either to gain intel or just for the sick pleasure of wanton destruction. So if Apple has two brand-new Model Xs sitting outside a building that’s been linked to its self-driving car division, that means Apple’s building…
Should Tesla turn off its Autopilot technology?
Consumer Reports wants Tesla to scrap Autopilot, for now. The influential consumer review magazine said the recent fatal crash that occurred while the Autopilot feature was engaged on a Tesla Model S should give pause to the “company’s aggressive roll-out of self-driving technology.” The report released Thursday said the aggressive marketing associated with the implementation…
Play The World’s 1st PC Game In 1981 Programmed By Bill Gates
I look at today’s philanthropist Bill Gates, it’s very hard to imagine that in the early days of Microsoft, he was an actual programmer. Born on October 28, 1955, he wrote his first computer program at the age of 13. You might have read the famous story of how Bill Gates hacked his school computer…
Audi is Making its own Tesla
Audi’s ramping up its electric car plans and hopes to have three models by 2020. It’ll also form a new subsidiary to work on autonomous cars. The company’s chief executive Rupert Stadler told Reuters that Audi’s renewed push for electric cars is a direct result of the emissions scandal that embroiled its parent company Volkswagen….
A new state of matter has been discovered to help understanding the physics behind high temperature superconductors.
Till now we have known 3 states of matter: Solid, Liquid and Gas. To add to it some of them may be aware of Plasma state as well, however it seems there exists a whole lot of other states which do not exist in nature however would occur under extreme laboratory conditions. An International team…
“Prey for the Gods” raises $300,000 Kickstarter goal
It’s been a while since Kickstarter ran a pair of successful high-profile campaigns, but between Prey for the Gods and System Shock, the website is rocking like it’s the good old days. Maybe not as high profile as Shenmue 3, but at least it’s something. Prey for the Gods has proven to be popular because…
Lego figure in Real-Life
Now I’m no economist, nor do I have a business degree from a fancy college, but I assume a basic formula to be true. Lego + a popular intellectual property = cute meta-brand that makes yachts full of easy money. Lego Star Wars. Lego Batman. Lego Harry Potter. The evidence is plentiful. An empire is…
Apple has to be impressed with Xiaomi’s Mi Notebook Air
[UPDATE] Xiaomi Already Launched The New Mi Notebook Air Xiaomi has finally delivered its first laptop, and just as expected, it wants to battle the MacBook Air head-on. Its new Mi Notebook Air is thinner, lighter, and more powerful than Apple’s machine — and yet it’s still kinder on your wallet. Despite its somewhat silly…
The Most Realistic VR Experience – Cable
To date, cable-driven parallel robots have been used in production environments, where they meet high requirements. The systems surpass conventional industrial robots in size and payload by between one and two orders of magnitude. The end effector can be freely moved with high accuracy by up to eight cables and winches. Based on this technology…
