Passenger rail has never been known for punctuality (at least in this century), but over the past year, Amtrak’s long distance passenger trains have reportedly gone from being late 35 percent of the time to being late 60 percent of the time. But don’t blame Amtrak—it’s being forced to make way for the thousands of trains carrying oil from the Midwest. Read more…
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The US Doesn’t Have Enough Railroads to Keep Up With the Oil Boom
The backflipping Lenovo Yoga singlehandedly made laptops cool again. The Yoga 2 Pro added a backlit keyboard and a brilliant 3200 x 1800 QHD screen. Now, Lenovo’s going for broke with the third generation of its transforming touchscreen machine. Not only is the new $1, 349 Yoga 3 Pro thinner and lighter, it has a freaking watch band consisting of 813 precision-machined, hand-assembled components holding up its infinitely positionable screen. Read more…
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Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro: Yes, The Hinge is a Giant Watchband
Tony Stark and Bruce Wayne would feel at home inside DARPA’s GXV-T missile-dodging superbuggy. This video shows how the Pentagon’s research arm wants t he cockpit to be: Closed, with high-definition touch screens providing wide-angle visibility and displaying combat information in augmented reality . It’s really impressive. Read more…
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Sitting inside DARPA’s missile-dodging buggy is just like a video game
Regardless of which platform you’re on , text-message windows are pretty boring. The folks behind comiXchat think they have the solution to that, however, with an app that turns your 160-character correspondences into comic strips. More than just throwing avatars onto a static background, though, the app promises real-time changes to character position, facial expression and camera angles among other things, based on implied emotion, tone and attitude. And if any of that goes horribly wrong, you can share the comics either per-pane or the entire conversation via your social media network of choice. For it to work, you need to rope your friends into downloading it too. Ad-supported, free versions are available on Android , iOS and Windows Phone and if you’d like a preview of what it all looks like in action, there’s a dubstep-accompanied video just below. Filed under: Cellphones , Software , Mobile Comments Via: comiXchat Source: ComiXchat (Google Play) , (App Store) , (Windows Phone)
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Turn your text messages into comic strips with this app
For the first time, Samsung has starting producing SSDs using (wait for it) 3-bit multi-level-cell, 3D Vertical NAND flash memory, better known as TLC V-NAND. So, who in the actual hell cares? You might, if you’re planning on buying an SSD or computer soon. Samsung’s current V-NAND technology has resulted in models like the 850 Pro SSD , which topped all benchmarks and has a 10-year guarantee. But combining V-NAND with 3-bit tech has more than doubled wafer yields, which should result in even cheaper, faster and higher-capacity SSDs. The disks aren’t on sale yet, but there’s a good chance that one of the first available will be Samsung’s recently leaked 850 EVO. Filed under: Storage , Samsung Comments Source: Samsung
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Samsung wants to kill hard drives with new high-efficiency SSDs
Jason Koebler writes Yahoo announced [Tuesday] it would be laying off at least 400 workers in its Indian office, and back in February, IBM cut roughly 2, 000 jobs there. Meanwhile, tech companies are beginning to see that many of the jobs it has outsourced can be automated, instead. Labor in India and China is still cheaper than it is in the United States, but it’s not the obvious economic move that it was just a few years ago: “The labor costs are becoming significant enough in China and India that there are very real discussions about automating jobs there now, ” Mark Muro, an economist at Brookings, said. “Companies are seeing that automated replacements are getting to be ‘good enough.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Outsourced Tech Jobs Are Increasingly Being Automated
A class-action lawsuit against Red Bull is being settled, and if you’ve purchased any Red Bull products in the last 12 years, you can get a piece of the pie. No proof of purchase required. Read more…
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You Get Free Red Bull or $10 If You Bought One In the Last 12 Years
Yesterday morning, Belkin routers stopped allowing users from accessing the Internet. In a statement provided to TechCrunch Belkin identified and outlined steps it will take to prevent it from happening again. “One of our cloud services associated with maintaining router operations was negatively impacted by a change made in our data center that caused a false denial of service.… Read More
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Belkin Explains Why Its Routers Stopped Working
Gorgeous culinary art by Ruth & Sira, illustrators and graphic designers from the north of Spain. Read the rest
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Incredibly detailed psychedelic chocolate skulls
The Federal Trade Commission announced today that AT&T will pay $105 million for hiding extra charges in cellphone bills. The best part of the news? $80 million of it will go back into the pockets of people bilked by AT&T. Read more…
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AT&T Will Repay $80 Million In Shady Phone Bill Charges