Monthly Archives: March 2017
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Distracted Driving And Smartphones Contribute To Highest Pedestrian Death Rate In 20 Years
A new report by the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) found that pedestrian fatalities in 2016 were the highest they've ever been in the past two decades. States reported 2,660 pedestrian deaths in the first six months of 2016, up from 2,486 in the same time period the previous year...
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Enterprise wireless: trends and developments in 2017
What will be the main developments in wireless this year and what challenges will this bring to enterprises? Go to Source -
Google’s Early April Fool’s Prank Transports Ms. Pac-Man To Google Maps
April Fool’s Day isn’t until tomorrow, but many companies are already cashing in on the festivities on the last work day of the week. Google is getting in on the action by transforming its incredibly popular Google Maps application into a digital playground for Ms. Pac-Man. Google last pulled off...
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Orange Pi 2G-IoT Matches Raspberry Pi Zero W’s $10 Price, Adds 2G Wireless Radio
Just over a month ago, Raspberry Pi upgraded its Zero with 802.11n and Bluetooth 4.0 wireless connectivity, dubbing it the Zero W. This new wireless functionality came with an added cost, doubling the price of the computing board from $5 to $10. Not to be outdone, Chinese company Orange Pi...
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Uber Exec Levandowski Pleads The Fifth In Google’s Waymo Self-Driving Car Litigation
Anthony Levandowski, the former boss of Google's self-driving car program, invoked his Fifth Amendment right in a lawsuit alleging he stole thousands of files and IP from the firm's spin-off business Waymo, which focuses on self-driving car technology. Levandowski is currently the VP of engineering at Uber where he heads...
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Bungie Makes Destiny 2 Official, Pre-Order For Beta Early Access, PC Gamers Get Ready
There will be no more speculation on the matter, folks—Destiny 2 is indeed headed to the PC, developer Bungie has officially confirmed. It will also arrive on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, though that was never really in question. After the first Destiny game launched to both consoles as...
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Oculus Rift Creator Palmer Luckey Departs Facebook Following Tumultuous Legal Battle
Palmer Luckey is leaving Facebook. The Oculus co-founder came up with the Rift and is largely responsible for popularizing VR. Now he departs the world's largest social network three years after selling his company to Facebook. Today will be his last day on the job. Publicly, the parting of ways...
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Two-fifths of gaming firms 'could relocate over Brexit'
Some 40% of British gaming companies say they are considering relocating some or all of their business because of Brexit. Companies cited losing access to talent and funding as major risks when Britain leaves the bloc. A survey by industry group Ukie polled 75 of the more than 2,000 games...
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SpaceX Successfully Launches Recycled Falcon 9 Rocket, Makes Historic Landing On Drone Ship
Elon Musk and SpaceX continue to defy the odds and give us all hope for the future of manned space travel. Back in early April 2016, a Falcon 9 booster was used for CRS-8, a resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The Falcon 9 used in that mission...
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ASUS Pumps Out Custom GeForce GTX 1080 Card With 11Gbps Memory, GTX 1060 OC Edition
When NVIDIA pulled the curtain up last month to reveal its latest top-end GPU, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, it mentioned that the GTX 1080 and GTX 1060 would see special versions released that would bump the memory clock speeds -- 11Gbps for GTX 1080, and 9Gbps for GTX 1060...
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