As far as adorably tiny trucks and vans go, Japan has the rest of the world beat. The country is known for using “kei cars,” relatively affordable, ultra-compact vehicles, to conduct personal and commercial transportation on narrow streets. Though kei cars have historically been gas-powered, electric versions are beginning to …
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Nvidia Overtakes Intel as World’s Most Valuable Chip Maker Nvidia has overtaken Intel as the world’s most valuable chip maker, at least briefly. Increases in the GPU manufacturers’ market capitalization pushed its stock price to $404 on Wednesday, giving it a market capitalization at $248B, just about Intel’s $246B. Nvidia …
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Because the rest of his class was so weak, Embiid will probably get some first place Rookie of the Year votes, having played less than 800 minutes. That’s an average of 29.8 minutes per game, more than rookies averaged in the first round in six of the previous seven years. …
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The essential function of a door is to be closed when you want it closed and open when you want it open. Things can get complicated when you start adding internet connectivity to these most basic of objects. Case in point, one man who owns a Garadget smart garage door …
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DoubleDutch, a startup providing mobile apps and analytics for events and conferences is downsizing again. The company has just announced another round of layoffs, affecting roughly 40 percent its workforce, TechCrunch learned and DoubleDutch confirmed. Around 70 positions were eliminated, including those in senior leadership roles. DoubleDutch’s CFO, CCO, VP of …
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Google’s Map Maker has often received bad press due to the amount of spam that originates from users of the product. In May of 2015, Map Maker was actually shut down to help prevent disasters like this one. So Google’s announcement that they’re shutting down Map Maker entirely in March of 2017 …
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CyanogenMod has been a big name in the Android modding community since the early days of the platform, but Cyanogen Inc. only appeared a few years ago. This commercial entity was founded by Steve “Cyanogen” Kondik and CEO Kirt McMaster in 2013 to create a licensed version of CyanogenMod for …
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A little over a year after the excellent Super Mario Maker was released for the Wii U, it is now available on Nintendo’s 3DS too. On the one hand, this seems to be such an obvious move- the 3DS is also a platform that lends itself to creation tools very well, …
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Google today announced the launch of App Maker, the newest entry in the low-code, drag-and-drop app building market. Like its competitors from Microsoft and numerous startups, App Maker promises to make it easy for anybody to quickly develop basic apps that serve a very specific purpose inside an organization. The new service …
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Moxie Marlinspike, founder of Open Whisper Systems (OWS), the not-for-profit software group behind the respected Signal Protocol crypto (and the eponymous Signal secure messaging app) has responded to criticism of how the group is developing its projects by calling for more contributions from the community to broaden implementations of the protocol. “I …
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