Former HTC CEO Peter Chou has left the company

After a decade at the helm of HTC, Peter Chou was last year suddenly ousted from his post as CEO in the wake of negative early reviews of the company’s 2015 smartphone flagship, the One M9. In my preview of the phone, I described it as a beautiful disappointment, and others agreed that it carried…

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Meet the Panterragaffe, a Strandbeest walking bicycle

Panterragaffe is a pedal powered two person walking machine, a walking bicycle. The name has a few elements to it. It’s a play on pantograph, which is a mechanism for copying drawings, since it’s similar to the leg mechanism. Also; Pan – all or spanning. Terra – earth. Gaffe – an unintentional act causing embarrassment…

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Apple adds new channels to Apple TV universal/Siri search

Apple’s universal search feature for the Apple TV today gains new supported channels allowing users to search for content within the apps directly from the Apple TV’s main search function and Siri. Today’s update adds support for A&E, History, Lifetime, Cooking Channel, DIY, Food Network, Travel Channel FYI, and HGTV. Apple has been regularly adding new…

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Charge your phone with KFC’s new take-out box

Suppose you’ve just fired up Yelp to hunt down the nearest KFC, texted your friends to get their order and then posted a sweet victory Snapchat of your crispy haul. That probably just took a chunk from your smartphone battery — but don’t worry dudes, KFC’s got your back with a device chargerin your take-out…

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This Simple Computer Game Seriously Boosts Children’s Math Skills

What’s the best way to get a child to learn mathematics? As it turns out – and probably much to the chagrin of many parents – one of the most effective ways appears to be teaching mathematics through videogames. Multiple studies have shown that videogames improve cognition, reasoning and mathematical abilities in young children, particularly…

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‘Test Like You Fly’: What Qualification Means for SLS Rocket

The word “qualification” has become quite synonymous with testing and building the world’s most powerful rocket, NASA’s Space Launch System, which will make missions possible to an asteroid and the journey to Mars. So, what does it mean for rocket parts to be “qualified” for the mission of going to deep space? And how does that…

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This gorgeous, cheap smartphone is one of the best you can buy

OnePlus currently has four smartphones tied to its name while others like Samsung have hundreds. Yet, the latest model, called the OnePlus 3, is one of the best Android phones we’ve ever tested and used. The OnePlus 3 is the latest Android smartphone from a small Chinese company called OnePlus, which started off by selling…

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Elon Musk wants to build a robot that does your housework

After bringing electric cars to the masses and taking people to Mars, Elon Musk’s next goal is to design a robot to do your chores. Musk and some of the other leaders of the nonprofit artificial intelligence group Open AI jointly announced that they are “working to enable a physical robot … to perform basic…

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This tiny attachment turns any helmet into a speaker

I like cycling while listening to music, but I also enjoy not being run over by cars. This is exactly the kind of problem that the technology industry is primed to “disrupt,” and thankfully, the internet’s legion of startups hasn’t disappointed. Domio is a small device about the size of a hockey puck, which uses…

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This Stunning Salt Water Powered Car Is Ready For European Roads

We all know gasoline comes from oil, and we all know that oil is a non-renewable source of energy. Finding a new fuel source that could power our vehicles and also be renewable would be a wonderful invention for our planet. While we have come up with ethanol as a substitute for gasoline, the toxic…

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