Have an old broken PSP sitting around collecting dust? Over on OtherMod, they show you how to tear that PSP apart, jam a Raspberry Pi Zero inside of it, and turn it into a multi-console portable device. Read more…
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Revive an Old PSP With a Raspberry Pi Zero
Autonomous cars are coming, and while it may sometimes feel like they’re already here, they’re really not. It can still be confusing, since every manufacturer with anything remotely like an autonomous vehicle seems to overstate what the cars can do . Luckily, levels of autonomy have been decided, and knowing them can help. That’s why we made some charts. Read more…
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What’s A ‘Level 4’ Autonomous Car? This Chart Explains Everything
An anonymous reader writes: The research firm Gartner has crunched some numbers and found that Android and iOS accounted for a record 99.1% worldwide market share in the second calendar quarter of 2016, which is compared to 96.8% in the year-ago period. What some may view as even more shocking is that Android accounted for 86.2% of the market share in the second quarter, up from 82.2% a year ago. Meanwhile, iOS lost some ground as it dropped to 12.9% market share from 14.6% in the year-ago period. It’s no surprise that Windows and BlackBerry have been losing market share. They dropped to 0.6% and 0.1% market share worldwide respectively. Just six years ago, BlackBerry and Symbian operating systems were industry leaders. Now, they’re industry losers. Which third-party operating system has what it takes to take on the establishment? Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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iOS and Android Combined For Record 99% of Smartphone Sales Last Quarter
Rumors are flying that astronomers at the European Southern Observatory have discovered an Earth-like exoplanet in the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri, our nearest neighboring star. If confirmed, this is undeniably one of the biggest astronomical discoveries of the century. Read more…
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There May Be an Earth-Like Exoplanet Less Than Five Light Years Away
Christian Roy of Quebec City has been using his Tesla Model S as a taxi for over two-and-a-half years, accumulating over 100, 000 treacherous taxi miles. How did this high-tech electric car stand up to that much cab abuse? Read more…
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Here’s How A Tesla Taxi Held Up After 100,000 Miles
In the 1970s, Stephen Hawking made an audacious prediction that black holes aren’t totally black; they evaporate over time, emitting tiny amounts of radiation in the process. Now Israeli physicists have reported the strongest evidence to date that Hawking was right in a new paper in Nature Physics . Read more…
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We’re One Step Closer To Proving Stephen Hawking Was Right That Black Holes Evaporate
To an audiophile, there’s no such thing as ‘too expensive’ if it means an upgrade to their setup could improve their listening experience. And in Japan, some acoustic connoisseurs are now installing their own utility poles , with custom transformers, to ensure all of their audio gear is getting the purest power possible. Read more…
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Obsessed Audiophiles in Japan Are Installing Their Own Power Poles To Improve Sound
It’s Windows 10 update time! The so-called “Anniversary Update” marks a year since the OS officially made it out of Redmond and it’s the biggest update yet. We’ve already posted our initial impressions of the update, but with the hefty patch now rolling out for everybody, here are 12 new tricks to try on your Windows 10 machine. Read more…
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12 Things You Can Now Do With Windows 10 After the Anniversary Update
Even more bad news for Volkswagen: security researchers have discovered a huge security hole that affects potentially up to 100 million cars. It’s possible, using hardware as cheap as a $40 setup with an Arduino and an add-on radio transceiver board, to intercept signals from a Volkswagen Group key fob, and then by combining it with a small number of cryptographic keys shared by every VW car, one could essentially clone the car’s key fob. Read more…
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Almost Every Volkswagen Built Since 1995 Is Vulnerable To Wireless Unlocking Hacks
If you’re counting on technology to radically extend your lifespan , you’ll want to pay close attention to what’s happening with the Greenland shark. According to a new scientific paper , this mysterious deep-sea dweller can live up to 400 years, making it the longest-lived vertebrate on Earth. Read more…
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A 400-Year Old Shark May Hold the Cure to Aging