Apple hires another major talent for its top-secret car project
With nearly $200 billion in the bank and an R&D budget that’s never been larger, Apple is reportedly making big moves to beef up its growing team of auto industry experts. While we’ve seen reports pointing to Apple’s desire to build an electric car, a recent report in The Wall Street Journal relays that Apple is seriously exploring autonomous vehicle technologies as well.
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Can the OnePlus Two hold its own against the world’s two best smartphone cameras?
OnePlus will soon unveil its second-generation Android smartphone, which is going to be an affordable flagship device just like its predecessor. Unsurprisingly, the Chinese company has teased the OnePlus 2 by revealing bits and pieces about it before it becomes official. In a new revelation ahead of the big launch, OnePlus focused on the camera performance by posting the first official camera samples of the upcoming handset.
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Video: Solving a Rubik’s Cube in 5.6 seconds makes you feel like a total boss
Rubik’s Cubes were the annoying puzzles that parents used to use to keep their children busy before video games became a thing. However, some young people still do play with Rubik’s Cubes and they’re actually astoundingly good at them. One such person is Australian teenager Feliks Zemdegs, who recently won the Rubik’s Cube World Championship by solving each puzzle in an average of 7.56 seconds. Yes, that’s an average of 7.56 seconds — his best overall time was a blazing 5.6 seconds.
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This tiny gadget gives your iPhone 6 MagSafe charging powers
The magnetic power connector that MacBook users are more than familiar with is a brilliant idea that probably saved many unwanted accidents so far. The charger snaps out of the charging port when someone trips over the cable, leaving the MacBook resting safely on its desk. That same feature might not necessarily be needed on a smartphone such as the iPhone 6, but one company came up with a compelling reason for anyone to want a smartphone magnetic charger.
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Mustang Week 2015: Underhood Engine Eye-Candy from Myrtle Beach
From naturally aspirated to forced induction, we have them all here for you to enjoy.
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Watch as comedian pulls hilarious prank on corrupt FIFA official on live TV
When it comes to corruption in sports, you’d be hard pressed to find an organization with fewer scruples than FIFA, the governing body of international soccer. Speaking to this point, authorities this past May indicted 14 FIFA officials on charges of wire fraud, racketeering, and money laundering. Suffice it to say, FIFA’s corruption is so rampant and has endured for so long that it makes the NCAA seem angelic in comparison.
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Interactive website shows you why time flies by as you age
“And then one day you find ten years have got behind you, no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.”
There can be no doubt that our perception of time accelerates as we get older — things that used to feel like long periods of time suddenly fly by as we feel that we’re accelerating toward death. While we don’t know the precise causes of this phenomenon, a website created by Maximilian Kiener uses an interactive timeline to give us some understanding of why things just keep speeding up the more we age.
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You’ve never seen the Earth like this before
Over the past few weeks, Pluto has dominated the headlines. It took nearly a decade, but the New Horizons probe finally reached Pluto on July 14th, giving us our closest look yet at what used to be the ninth planet in our solar system. It has been incredible to see the dwarf planet in detail for the first time in history, but today we’re taking a break from Pluto and returning to Earth.
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Podcasting: Another area where the iPhone trounces Android
Well, you can add podcasting to the growing list of items where the iPhone outpaces Android. According to a recent report from Clammr, 82% of all podcast listening occurs on the iPhone compared to just 16% for Android. This figure is made all the more impressive given Android’s marketshare superiority.
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Stephen Hawking joins a $100 million quest to find space aliens
Famed physicist Stephen Hawking wants to believe that we aren’t alone in the universe. And to find out if there really is other intelligent life out there, he’s joining up with Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner to push a new $100 million initiative aimed at locating alien life on other planets.
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