HTC’s epic One M9 disaster keeps getting worse
The HTC One M9 isn’t a bad device by any stretch of the imagination but it’s nonetheless going to go down as one of the biggest smartphone disasters ever alongside the Amazon Fire Phone and the BlackBerry Storm. How bad has the One M9 been for HTC? Consider that since it first unveiled the One M9 back in March, HTC’s shares have lost nearly half of their value. Seriously: On March 2nd, HTC’s share price stood at NT$149. Today, it’s hovering in the NT$75 range.
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Apple Music has a secret weapon that almost no one’s talking about
The WWDC keynote is finally behind us and Apple Music is officially the latest entrant into the competitive streaming music market. While Apple spent a good deal of time yesterday detailing the myriad of features that differentiate its own music service from the rest of the pack, there’s one significant metric that Apple didn’t even have time to mention — the size of its music library.
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Everyone needs to read this gigantic primer on coding
Code rules everything around us but how many of us really know what it is? For those code neophytes among us, Bloomberg Businessweek has published a gigantic primer on the history of code written by programmer Paul Ford. And when we say “gigantic,” we mean it — in total, Ford’s article is 38,000 words.
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Oregon Students Beat 98 Competitors to Win National Ford/AAA Student Competition
Students from all across America converged in Michigan to battle for the national championship and be named the winners of the Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills National Finals.
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The Latest Mustang Projects at the Ringbrothers 2015 Power Tour Kickoff
The most radical car of the bunch is the 1965 fastback that’s being built for an un-named Russian customer
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Coyote Powerplant: Return of the 5.0
The 5.0 engine moniker was popular with the Fox-body crowd, so much so that many V-8 Mustang owners often referred to their Mustang as simply a “five point oh.”
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Tesla Model 3 may have more range than anyone imagined
Tesla in recent years has done an impressive job of quelling the notion that driving an electric car is a risky proposition. This is largely due to the Tesla Model S (which sports an impressive range of approximately 250 miles) and Tesla’s ever expanding fleet of Supercharger stations. As a result, Tesla owners these days can drive their vehicles across the country with ease, stopping at strategically positioned charging stations along the way.
Nonetheless, electric cars are still something of a niche product. But Tesla CEO Elon Musk, always one to dream big, has grand visions of bringing electric cars into the mainstream in the next few years. His secret weapon in this regard is the Tesla Model 3.
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The most German thing you’ll ever see: Man creates a device to open 5 beers at once
Creating a device to improve the efficiency of popping open bottles of beer — could anything be more German? OK, so technically the men behind this exciting beer-opening technique are Swiss, but they are speaking German in the video they posted of their creation, so that’s good enough for me. At any rate, YouTube user Christoph Nick has posted a video showing a Swiss man opening five of his friends’ beer bottles at once by using five different rulers that he’s arranged in a star shape within his clenched fist.
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Ratchet & Clank re-imagined for the PS4 looks absolutely stunning
Many of the PlayStation brand’s most iconic mascots have fallen by the wayside over the past few years. Crash, Jak, Daxter, Sly, Spyro — they may not be dead, but they certainly aren’t as prevalent as they were a decade ago. But amid the rubble, one furry hero and his robot pal have beaten the odds: Ratchet & Clank will return in 2016.
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Bad news, Windows Phone fans: You’ll have to wait a while before you get Windows 10
Microsoft has recently confirmed that Windows 10 is launching on July 29th, but the release doesn’t cover the phone version of the software. However, it looks like Microsoft might have inadvertently leaked the launch time frame for the Windows 10 phone update in a presentation to one of its partners.
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