Day: April 16, 2014

Automotive Military

The US military is building a stealth dirt bike

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As reported on The Verge. By Arielle Duhaime-Ross The US military has issued a grant for the development of a stealth motorcycle, reportsDefense Tech. The motorcycle’s “stealthiness” will be a product of its hybrid-electric engine, which will allow soldiers to drive for long periods on rough terrain while emitting virtually no engine noise. And according to Logos Technologies — the company responsible for building the engine — this will be the first hybrid-electric dirt bike ever built.…

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Android Google Interview

Watch this: Android design head Matias Duarte explains why mobile is dead

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As reported on The Verge. By Sean Hollister Matias Duarte helped design the T-Mobile Sidekick, the Helio Ocean, and Palm’s webOS. Now, he directs the look and feel of Google’s Android operating system. He’s probably not the guy you’d expect to say “mobile is dead.” Those were the words that left his mouth, though, at the 2014 Accel Design Conference in San Francisco. There, Vergeeditor-in-chief Joshua Topolsky interviewed him about his thoughts on design and where Android is headed.…

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Google

This anarchist collective is demanding $3 billion from Google

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As reported on The Verge. By Adrianne Jeffries The Counterforce, Kevin Rose, and the fire beneath San Francisco’s growing class gap Around 7AM on January 21st, 2014, a small group of protesters gathered in the driveway of an understated $1 million four bedroom family home in Berkeley and unfurled a hand-painted banner that read “GOOGLE’S FUTURE STOPS HERE.” The house belonged to Anthony Levandowski, a Google engineer best known for leading the self-driving car project. The…

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Space

NASA catches a glimpse of Saturn birthing a new moon

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As reported on Engadget. BY MARIELLA MOON For the first and perhaps the last time ever, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, whose mission is to orbit Saturn, has captured a new moon emerge from the Jovian planet’s rings. As you might know, the birth of a moon is an extremely rare event, and in Saturn’s case, it might never happen again. You see, there’s a theory that the sixth planet from the sun used to have a much larger…

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Google Mobile

Google’s Project Ara wants to revolutionize the smartphone industry within a year

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As reported on Engadget. BY BRAD MOLEN The night before Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) division was supposed to show off the one and only functional Project Ara prototype to a room full of eagerdevelopers, someone dropped the phone and broke the display. At any other product reveal, this worst-case scenario would be a nightmare come true. Not to Google: The company made lemonade out of a lemon by turning it into a selling point for the modular smartphone.…

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