Day: March 20, 2014

Automotive Business

Auto dealers fire back at Tesla CEO: ‘This Musk guy, he wants all the profits for himself’

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As reported on The Verge. By Ben Popper The war of words heats up between the tech billionaire and defiant local salesmen Last week, New Jersey announced that it would begin enforcing a ban on the direct sale of automobiles by manufacturers, a change that will cripple electric-vehicle maker Tesla’s business in that state. The company’s CEO, Elon Musk, responded with a fiery blog post accusing state legislators of cutting a backroom deal with traditional franchised auto retailers…

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Art

DARK ARTS

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As reported on The Verge. By Molly Osberg Meet the architects of Tumblr’s cyberpunk renaissance We’re in a weird time for the way the future looks; somehow House of Cardscan slyly introduce a floating text-message interface to their present-day political drama without so much as blinking, but most of our iconic near- and far-future worlds run on tracks laid down well before the ’90s. And it’s not just the recycling of every franchise from Star Trek to RoboCop: Avatar’s and Prometheus’ huge…

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Android Culture

Everything We Know About The Moto 360 Android Wear Smartwatch

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Darrell Etherington Motorola hosted a live Hangout with Jim Wicks, the lead designer of the Moto 360 Android Wear-based smartwatch, and the discussion started with the inspiration for the product and moved to its specifics. Motorola wasn’t yet sharing that much about specs and details for the hardware, but the smartwatch actually works as Wicks used it on camera, proving this isn’t just an ambitious render, and that’s a big load of the…

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Google and Microsoft are using the cloud to track climate change

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As reported on Engadget. BY TIMOTHY J. SEPPALA Data.gov is getting a whole lot greener thanks to its new section dedicated to climate information. The new channel is the product of President Obama’s Climate Data Initiative (PDF), and pulls information that can help predict the effects of climate change and prevent any damage that may result. The raw data comes from the likes of the Department of Defense, NASA and the US Geological Society, but probably isn’t easy to grok for…

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Automotive

Volvo’s connected cars could make winter driving safer for everyone

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As reported on Engadget. BY TIMOTHY J. SEPPALA With its latest research project, Volvo is hoping to make driving in inclement weather a bit less dicey. The Swedish automaker is testing a safety system that uses mobile data networks to relay icy road conditions from vehicle to vehicle. Once you hit a slick spot, the location data uploads to Volvo’s database and then an instant notification is sent to other cars nearing that area. As the outfit tells it, the…

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