As reported on Wired. BY DAMON LAVRINC View as gallery The new F-Type is the most gorgeous thing to come out of the Jaguar design studio in a decade. So how could you possibly improve it? Rip out the heavy convertible top, make it a single-seater speedster, and wrap the whole thing in acres of carbon fiber. That’s what the Project 7 Concept delivers — a modern take on the classic, knee-weakeningly gorgeous D-Type built…
As reported on TechCrunch. by DARRELL ETHERINGTON At Startup Festival in Montreal this week, one of the noteworthy pieces of data so far is how many non-startup folks are attending workshops ostensibly designed for startups. Ben Yoskovitz and Alistair Croll went out of their way to direct part of their talk regarding their book Lean Analytics to attendees who might want to take steps to innovate, but are doing so within an established business as “intrapreneurs” instead of from the vantage…
As reported on Engadget. By Mariella Moon Google Drive updates might be few and far in between, but they usually add welcome changes to the service — take for example its recently improved copy/paste function. You can now paste tables from spreadsheets into Gmail with their formatting intact, and it doesn’t even matter what browser you use. Chrome users get a bit of extra, of course, like bringing shapes from drawings into presentations and copying slides from one presentation to…
As reported on Engadget. By Stefan Constantinescu When Google released a new version of Google Maps for Android yesterday, it was quickly discovered that offline mapping support had been removed. You could kind of turn it back on by typing “OK Maps” into the app’s search field, but the lack of a dedicated button had users up in arms. Today, Google is announcing that it’s adding a “Make this map area available offline” button and that it’s rolling out…
As reported on Engadget. By Tim Stevens Over 12 miles the road up Pikes Peak winds through 156 turns, climbing nearly 5,000 feet to terminate at an altitude of 14,110 — 4,000 feet higher than the FAA requires to flip on your personal electronic devices in a commercial aircraft. On a normal day, people with RVs and SUVs lumber their struggling machines up to the top, engines gasping for air, and then gently thread their way…