After months of hype, Tesla finally took the wraps off its game-changing Model 3 on Thursday. The new car, which will sell starting at $35,000 before incentives, will be the cheapest all-electric car released today.

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Ordering an Uber is a great way to get back home safely when you’ve had a little bit too much to drink. Unfortunately, if you get too drunk and just so happen to pass out in the backseat of your Uber, you’re effectively at the mercy of your driver. While we’d like to assume that most Uber drivers in such situations would take drunken passengers straight home, one Uber passenger in the U.K. had the exact opposite experience.

In a quirky story that has made headlines across the globe (via CNN), an Uber rider in London passed out in the backseat whereupon the driver decided to test his luck and take advantage of the situation. So instead of taking the inebriated passenger straight home in what would have been a quick and painless 4-mile journey, our enterprising hero of a driver instead opted to go on a 20-mile detour before ultimately reaching the intended destination, all in an effort to rack up a more expensive trip.

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Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time to change the world… again… maybe. Tesla is less than an hour away from unveiling its hotly anticipated Model 3, a car that’s destined to flood the roads once it finally launches. Tesla’s new Model 3 will feature a base price of just $35,000, making it the company’s most affordable car by a wide margin. Also of note, that already low price will drop to as little as $25,000 after tax incentives.

The Model 3 is a huge deal, potentially putting all-electric cars within reach of a massive new market segment — and it all starts tonight with the new car’s official unveiling.

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Apple’s iPhone SE hit stores today, but the company’s latest 4-inch iPhone may not be enough to help offset an overall decline in iPhone sales. According to a report from Digitimes, iPhone 6s and 6s Plus demand is far lower than demand for Apple’s iPhone 6 models last year. Citing sources from within Apple’s supply chain, the report adds that “shipments for the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus for the second quarter of 2016 will likely be halved from those shipped in the first quarter.”

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After years of waiting, we’re tantalizingly close to the unveiling of Tesla’s Model 3. As opposed to the previously released Tesla Roadster and Model S, the Model 3 is being positioned as an electric vehicle for the masses. Armed with a $35,000 price tag, it’s a safe bet that the Model 3 will be the most successful Tesla vehicle ever released.

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Jesus may have walked on water on his own, but the rest of us would need some help to manage that kind of miraculous behavior. And as it turns out, one architecture firm came up with a project that would make it possible for regular people to walk on water.

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It’s really not that complicated. It’s a fan. But instead of having great big visible blades aimed horizontally, it has tiny little blades aimed vertically. The wind they produce is then pushed out of a uniquely designed blower. We all know how it works and it’s certainly not magic but after all these years, Dyson’s Air Multiplier fans are still some of the coolest things you can put in your home. They’re quiet, they work great, and they always start conversations.

So what are you waiting for? Dyson’s 10-Inch Air Multiplier AM06 Table Fan is discounted right now on Amazon and with free Prime shipping it’ll be at your door in two days.

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When Google in early 2014 generously opened up its wallet and forked over $3.2 billion in cash for Nest Labs, it ostensibly appeared to be a brilliant, albeit expensive, acquisition. At the time, Nest was riding high on the popularity of its Nest thermostat and the Nest Protect smoke alarm. With two hit products right out of the gate, the future of Nest looked remarkably bright.

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The FBI insists that encrypted products like the iPhone and encrypted online services will put people in harm’s way, especially in light of the ISIS-connected San Bernardino shooting late last year. That’s why the Bureau has been arguing for encryption backdoors that would be available to law enforcement agencies, and why it looked to coerce Apple to add a backdoor to iOS.

However, extensive reports that show the preparations ISIS made before hitting Paris and Brussels revealed the kind of encrypted products ISIS radicals used to stay in touch with central command. Unsurprisingly, these products are out of the FBI’s jurisdiction, and one in particular was one of the safest encrypted communication products you can find online. In fact,its original developers are suspected to have ties to the criminal underworld.

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If you ask current iPhone owners for a list of features they’d like to see Apple incorporate into the iPhone 7, a thinner and lighter form factor would likely appear somewhere near the bottom, if at all. Indeed, most respondents would likely ask for improved battery life, or more storage, or even a better camera. But because Jony Ive is reportedly obsessed with increasingly thinner devices, the iPhone 7 by all accounts will shave a few millimeters off of what is already an incredibly thin iPhone 6s.

Now if we put aside well-placed grievances regarding Apple’s obsession with thinness over other utilitarian considerations, it’s rather impressive that Apple can continue to make successive iPhone models thinner while concurrently making them faster and equipping them with more advanced camera modules. And all the while, battery life practically remains the same.

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