Apple May Adapt Wireless Charging For The iPhone 8

You might never have to plug a charging cable into your iPhone again. Foxconn, the Chinese manufacturing company that builds electronics including the iPhone, is reportedly testing wireless charging modules that might make it into next year’s iPhone 8, according to a report from the Nikkei Asian Review. Whether the iPhone 8 actually gets wireless…

Steve Jobs Sent This Email To Apple Employees Before His Death

In 2010, a year before his death, Steve Jobs outlined Apple’s strategy in an email to the company’s 100 most senior employees. He heralded the “Post PC era,” vowed “Holy War with Google,” promised to “further lock customers into our ecosystem,” and warned that Apple was “in danger of hanging on to old paradigm too…

A New Solar-Powered Socket That Sticks To Windows

Dubai Design Week, a festival that showcases an extensive array of work by designers from 26 countries, kicked off October 24. One exhibition, called the Global Grad Show, showcases pieces created by students at the world’s leading design schools. Since it launched in 2015, the show has become the largest exhibition of student-made design work…

Elon Musk Says Solar Roof Tiles Will Defrost Themselves

Hold onto your butts solar aficionados, the next generation solar roof is coming, and it looks good. During a brief event Friday night, Elon Musk presented his plan to integrate solar roof tiles with Powerwall power packs. But that’s not all. On Saturday Musk expanded on his talk by explaining via Twitter that the new…

Apple May Support AR In Its Future Devices

Ask anyone, and they’ll probably tell you that Apple is very late to the AR and VR game — that’s augmented and virtual realities, if you’re not familiar with the acronyms. Of those, Apple is betting big on AR, according to Tim Cook’s many comments on the matter, which would give users a layer of…

The 3D Printer AI Build is Here

A London-based startup has combined some of today’s most disruptive technologies in a bid to change the way we’ll build the future. By retrofitting industrial robots with 3D printing guns and artificial intelligence algorithms, Ai Build has constructed machines that can see, create, and even learn from their mistakes. When CEO and founder Daghan Cam…

Here’s Why Apple May Sue Microsoft For It’s Surface Studio Desktop

Microsoft’s new Surface Studio is an intriguing, albeit incredibly expensive, new PC geared for creative professionals. Boasting an impressive 28-inch display, the Surface Studio’s underlying appeal is a specialized hinge design that allows users to collapse the display to a 20-degree angle. In turn, users can more readily use the generously sized display for artistic…

Inside Tesla’s New Solar Roof

Ahead of a proposed vote to merge with Tesla, Solar City shareholders and anybody with a livestream got the chance to see what the solar panel company is up to during a brief event on Friday night, hosted by, naturally, Elon Musk. The Tesla CEO and Solar City chairman spoke from a stage set up…

The iPhone 8 May Be Easy Breakable

Apple and Samsung are both reportedly working on all-screen new smartphones for next year. Samsung will be the first to market with such a design, as the Galaxy S8 is already rumored to feature a display that occupies more than 90% of the phone’s front side. Apple’s iPhone 8 is also expected to ditch the…

Tesla Will Be More Affordable Thanks to Elon Musk’s Plan

Tesla Will Be More Affordable Thanks to Elon Musk’s New Plan. Over the past few months, we’ve heard rumblings about Tesla’s efforts to eventually introduce a Tesla Network, effectively a ridesharing service operated by self-driving Tesla vehicles. During a Tesla event last week, where Tesla introduced hardware capable of supporting fully autonomous driving, the company…

Apple’s New Macbook Pro With Touchbar

Apple’s long-awaited MacBook Pro refresh is finally here and it’s… well, pretty much what we expected. That’s Apple’s fault, partially, after a recent macOS update revealed details about the laptop’s OLED touch strip — now known as the “Touch Bar” — and Touch ID. Instead of having the usual function and hardware control keys at…