Lenovo Phab2 Pro: World's first Google Tango phone could be the key to mind-blowing indoor maps
I'm walking around the conference room, aiming my Tango phone at the space between two chairs where Lenovo executives are sitting. A third empty chair, a plush leather one, sits on the carpet. I'm walking around it, seeing how it looks. But it isn't real: it's augmented, generated by an app on my phone screen. As I move around, it stays in place convincingly. I think to myself...I could use this to furniture-shop for my living room without even lifting a finger. If you haven't used Google's Pro..>> view originalIn a first, Iceland power plant turns carbon emissions to stone
Section of rock core from the CO2 storage reservoir showing vesicular basalt with a well-defined fracture with calcium carbonate mineralization. Credit: Annette K. Mortensen. Scientists and engineers working at a major power plant in Iceland have shown ...>> view originalApple Rumored to Be Debuting iMessage for Android at WWDC
Apple is planning to announce an iMessage app for Android users at WWDC, according to a report from MacDailyNews citing sources "familiar with the company's thinking."Apple will announce that iMessage encrypted text messaging is coming to Android users at WWDC next Monday at WWDC 2016, according to a source familiar with the company's thinking. [...] Apple is increasingly focused on services which means opening up certain avenues beyond its own iOS and OS X platforms, the source says. The comp..>> view originalTesla Offers Lower-Price Model S Sedan
Updated June 9, 2016 7:23 p.m. ET Tesla Motors Inc. TSLA -2.62 % released a lower-priced version of its Model S electric sedan, a move to tap into the huge enthusiasm for its coming Model 3 and boost flagging sales growth of its existing cars. On Thursday, it began selling a $66,000 version of its Model S with a battery modified to limit its travel range to about 200 miles on a charge. The price is 9% below the prior lowest-cost model. Separately, the National Highway T..>> view originalTwitter locks some accounts after 32 million passwords appear on dark web
Twitter has responded to reports indicating that tens of millions of usernames and passwords for the social media service are currently available on the dark web, specifying that it is "confident the information was not obtained from a hack of Twitter's servers," and that the purported passwords may have come from breaches of other sites and malware hidden on its users' computers. News that more than 32 million purported Twitter passwords were being traded on the dark web surfaced Wednesday nig..>> view originalWho were those enigmatic 'hobbits'? 700000-year-old fossils hold clues (+video)
Prehistoric human fossils discovered in a cave called Liang Bua on the Indonesian island of Flores have long been shrouded in mystery.When the first strange bones were unearthed well over a decade ago, scientists proposed that they represented an entirely new human species, dubbed Homo floresiensis and nicknamed "hobbit" for its 3.5-foot stature. But little was known about how such tiny humans came to be.Perhaps they were actually sickly Homo sapiens that hadn't grown to their full size, not a ..>> view originalMotorola's aiming big with its ambitious modular smartphones
A couple weeks before Lenovo Tech World, Motorola caused a stir when it teased the event with a video celebrating the Razr —leading to much speculation the company was planning to revive the flip phone. That, of course, turned out not to be the case. Instead, we got a look at two new phones. But Motorola's reference to the Razr — one of its most popular handsets ever — is indicative of how it sees its latest pair of flagships, the Moto Z and Moto Z Force. As iconic as the Razr was, Motorola is ..>> view originalUber Makes a U-Turn on Scheduled Rides
Uber Technologies Inc. has made a U-turn on scheduled rides. On Thursday, Uber said it is letting UberX riders in Seattle schedule rides as much as 30 days ahead of time and eventually scheduled rides would come to all its users. In September, Uber Chief Executive Travis Kalanick said Uber had no plans to offer scheduled rides. “We want...>> view original
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