Though Apple’s plan to develop and release an electric car has reportedly hit a few speed bumps over the past few months, the company seemingly has no intention of slowing down its car-oriented R&D anytime soon. According to a new report from The Wall Street Journal, Apple is currently eyeing an 800,000 square foot property in Silicon Valley as a testing ground for autonomous driving technologies it’s working on.

News of Apple’s interest in acquiring such a large parcel of land was sourced from Victor Coleman, the CEO of Hudson Pacific Properties Inc. For those unfamiliar, Hudson Pacific Properties a few years ago began buying up a ton of real estate in Silicon Valley, and today, the company commands an impressive inventory of real estate listings in the area. In any event, Coleman during a recent earnings conference call said that a number of big name companies – from Toyota to Google to Apple – have increasingly been eyeing large swaths of real estate across the entire Silicon Valley area.

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Do you think you could wake up in the morning if you didn’t have your precious coffee to help you out? It turns out that it’s entirely possible to wake up without any coffee, however, and a new video from the team at AsapSCIENCE shows us how to do it.

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Next week at Disrupt NY 2016, Dag Kittlaus, a former Apple employee and one of the co-founders of Siri, will take the stage to discuss the future of artificial intelligence. Kittlaus’ appearance, however, will be notable for another reason: the world will finally get a glimpse at a new and potentially revolutionary AI system that Kittlaus and his team at Viv Labs have been working over the past few years.

The forthcoming AI system is called Viv and it is already touted as being more advanced than Siri or any other intelligent assistant out on the market. Whereas a service like Siri can handle simple queries like What’s the weather like in Miami or What year was Michael Jordan born in?, Viv can process and answer multi-layered questions. As a quick example, Kittlaus a few weeks ago explained that Viv can handle a more complex query like, “Find me a flight to Dallas with a seat that Shaq could fit in” or “What’s the weather near the Super Bowl?”

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It will be Mother’s Day soon, which means you should be looking for special gifts and make time in your busy schedule to spend some time with mom. And you should probably check out Jimmy Kimmel’s hilarious new segment on text messages from moms, and forward it to your mother.

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We’ve been reacquainted with nearly all of our favorite (and least favorite) characters throughout the first two episodes of the sixth season of Game of Thrones, but one character you probably don’t remember will be returning as well.

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What were you doing when you were just 10 years old? Were you able to find any software bugs and win a boatload of cash for it? I sure wasn’t, but a Finnish boy named Jani recently told Facebook about an Instagram bug would let anyone delete comments inside the app. The social network rewarded him with $10,000 for his discovery.

It turns out that Jani is not only good with computers already, but he has a great sense of humor.

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That’s right, Justin Timberlake fans, your prayers have been answered. The entertainer will finally release a new song, and it’ll all go down early this Friday. A new album is on the way as well.

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For the first time since April last year, Samsung regained the No. 1 spot in the U.S. smartphone market, new research shows. According to a new report from Hong Kong-based Counterpoint Research seen by Business Korea, Samsung accounted for 28.8% of the U.S. market for the month of March – the Galaxy S7 was unveiled in late February at this year’s MWC 2016 mobile trade show.

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With Game of Thrones now chugging along in its 6th year, HBO’s wildly popular fantasy drama has been subject to a number of interesting fan-made recuts and mashups over the years. But perhaps the best we’ve seen yet comes in the form of a recently resurfaced video which reimagines the traditional Game of Thrones intro as an 80s or 90s sitcom.

From a more digitized theme song to a purposeful reduction in video quality, the intro mashup below really manages to capture the look and feel of what TV shows used to look like a few decades back. And as one commenter on YouTube astutely points out, you might be well advised to “watch in 144p for maximum effect!”

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Perhaps it’s time to replace your banged up old keyboard when the zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz key that sticks. It just so happens that Amazon is having a big sale right now on wireless keyboards and mice from HP, and the prices are so low that they start at just over $10. There is absolutely no reason to go with wired accessories these days and HP is the best in the business, so be sure to check out all eight sale items below.

Note that these sale prices are good until the end of the day on Saturday, May 7, or while supplies l

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