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Fully Autonomous + Foldable Cars in the Very Near Future : Smart Car Roundup
In this week’s SmartCar roundup we’ll be featuring fully autonomous cars coming by 2020, a folding car, and a GPS Safety System to keep you and your loved ones safe. Nissan promises fully automated self-driving cars by 2020 Earlier this year, it was predicted that by 2016 we’ll see partially autonomous cars out in the ...
Elon Musk to Unveil Holographic Technology Akin to Tony Stark’s
Is Elon Musk the Tony Stark of real-life? He could be, especially if you consider all his ingenious, though sometimes a bit quirky, innovative spirit. Stark is a genius, billionaire, playboy, philantropist that is more famously known as Iron Man. He is not real of course, he is a fictional Marvel character that geeks and ...
Will HTC’s Chinese Mobile OS Bring It Back From The Dead?
China has a huge population which makes it one of the best markets to launch new products. If it’s a hit in China you’ll be raking in the billions in no time at all, but if not that’s too bad because you’ll be missing on out huge profits. For the mobile industry, China is seen ...
Reverse-Engineering Renders Dropbox Vulnerable
Dropbox might be the most widely used cloud storage and sharing service in the world, with over 25 million users and adding about 200 million files daily, but its security is constantly being questioned, and not just because of the NSA. Security researchers have stumbled upon a viable attack vector and inconsistencies in Dropbox’s privacy ...
Parallels Access Makes Your iPad More Productive for $79.99
The iPad with Retina Display sells for $499 for a 16GB version, and costs even more if you want greater storage space. It’s notthat expensive, but considering how limited the iPad is productivity wise, it might not be the most sensible investment for some. Face facts, the iPad just isn’t as handy as your computer ...
10gen’s Unified Open Source Front : Rebrands as MongoDB
10gen, the company that brought us the open-source document-oriented database system MongoDB, announced that it will now be called MongoDB, Inc. which unifies the open-source database project. The name change is effective immediately. “In 2007, 10gen began work on an open-source cloud computing stack. That was the birth of MongoDB, as the data layer of ...
New in Self-Quantified Health : Smart Toothbrush + More
Living a healthy lifestyle can be tough to maintain, especially when you’ve grown accustomed to eating junk food, drinking alcoholic beverages and forget to keep up with your hygienic needs. People say that if you want to change your lifestyle, you can, you just have to stick with your plan and not deviate. And now, ...
Google.ps Hacked for ‘Mislabeling’ Borders
Google Palestine was the victim of a defacing by unhappy hackers, who were apparently pissed that the search engine giant had switched its regional search page “Palestinian Territories” to “Palestine” last May, in recognition of Palestine’s upgraded U.N. status as a non-member observer. Curiously though, Google’s move was viewed as favorable towards the Palestinians, so ...
Can Nokia’s Sirius Tablet Compete With The iPads and Android Tabs?
Nokia is said to be launching a Windows RT tablet near the end of September. Dubbed the “Nokia Sirius”, the 10.1-inch device has been described as something that’s quite similar to its Lumia phones, being encased in colorful plastic casings as per Nokia’s Windows Phone style. The Sirius looks like an interesting device, but isn’t ...
Apple’s Trade-in Program Already in Play in Some Apple Stores
Last June, it was reported that Apple was planning to launch a trade-in program that would allow current iPhone users to trade their old devices at Apple Stores and get a gift card which they can use to purchase a newer model. According to sources, the trade-in program is already in play in some pilot ...