Used to be that even the smallest tweaks to an upcoming automobile’s design could require weeks of fabrication to produce the modified clay, wood, and metal models. And while physical representations of prototype vehicles are still a big part of the production process today, a new 4K UHD monitor wall from Chevrolet could soon supplant them all. Read more…
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Chevy’s Insane PowerWall Display Has More Pixels Than an IMAX Theater
Google is a front runner in the autonomous auto future. Back in May , Google showed off an early prototype, a hack together little car with an exposed roof sensor and non-functioning headlight stickers. Today, in a short blog post , the team revealed the first fully functioning model. Read more…
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Here’s Google’s First Fully Functional Self-Driving Car Prototype
California wants better batteries, which is why t he electric company Southern California Edison is planning a set of, let’s say, unconventional energy storage solutions, including huge 450-gallon ice packs. Why? It all has to do with a little-known problem with California’s wind-reliant electric grid. Read more…
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California’s Grid May Soon Store Energy in Giant Ice Packs
The global telecom network Signal System 7 helps phone carriers across the world, including AT&T and Verizon, route calls and texts . It’s also apparently perforated with security holes that lets hackers and spies listen to your calls and read your texts. It’s so bad the ACLU’s chief technologist told me that people worried about being snooped should just not use their cell phone to make calls. Privacy: Remember that? Read more…
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Hackers Can Read Your Texts Thanks to Huge Security Flaw
Graphene has very many strengths , but there is one thing it isn’t and that is magnetic. Now, a team of researchers has found that the insertion of a little lead into the planar graphene structure can change that. Read more…
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A Little Lead Can Make Graphene Magnetic
American forces in Afghanistan have long complained of a significant drawback in their M320 rifle-mounted grenade launchers : enemies positioned behind the low, mud brick walls ubiquitous to the region’s architecture could easily avoid incoming 40mm grenade rounds simply by ducking. You’d need a direct line of sight to enemy forces in order to inflict maximum damage. But not anymore. Read more…
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The Army’s Grenade Launchers Are About to Become Twice as Deadly
The popular torrent site Isohunt just launched a new fully functional website — oldpiratebay.org — that lets you search through the Pirate Bay archives. This is a little bit silly, since Pirate Bay’s archives have been public for years . But it’s also a little bit useful if you’ve been having Pirate Bay withdrawal since the site got raided by Swedish police . Read more…
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Another Torrent Site Has Resurrected the Pirate Bay
It’s a vast understatement to say that Crossrail, London’s newest subway line, is big. It’s massive: 23 miles of huge tunnels below an ancient city, dug by a team of 10, 000 workers, to form the city’s biggest transit project since World War II. Read more…
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Inside the Vast Tunnels of Europe’s Biggest Infrastructure Project
Google Search now has a completely new look for iOS , though it’s one many Android users will be familiar with. The Search team is bringing Android Lollipop’s Material Design language to the Search app along with lots of other features and optimization for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. Read more…
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Google’s iOS App Just Got a Material Design Makeover And Much More
The Apple Store will now let you buy stuff online with PayPal in the US and the UK. Along with the new payment option, Apple is also promoting PayPal Credit, which lets you pay for that shiny new MacBook in interest-free monthly instalments, rather than having to sell a kidney upfront. [ re/code ] Read more…
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The Apple Store will now let you buy stuff online with PayPal in the US and the UK.