"Urgent" air bag danger for 313000 Honda owners and other top stories.

• "Urgent" air bag danger for 313000 Honda owners

  Last Updated Jun 30, 2016 4:05 PM EDT DETROIT -- The U.S. government is urging owners of 313,000 older Hondas and Acuras to stop driving them and get them repaired after new tests found that their Takata air bag inflators are extremely dangerous.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Thursday that it has data showing that chances are as high as 50 percent that the inflators can explode in a crash, injuring people by sending metal shrapnel into the passenger compartments."Thes..

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• Tesla driver's death using car's 'Autopilot' probed by NHTSA

  

  A driver so enamored of his Tesla Model S sedan that he nicknamed the car "Tessy" and praised the safety benefits of its sophisticated "Autopilot" system has become the first U.S. fatality in a wreck involving a car in self-driving mode.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced the driver's death Thursday, and said it is investigating the design and performance of the Autopilot system.Joshua D. Brown of Canton, Ohio, the 40-year-old owner of a technology company, was killed M..

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• Facebook gives up on Paper

  

  The words "Facebook Paper" might only be vaguely familiar to you. This is because Facebook's iPhone-only news app, launched in 2014, never got much traction. Facebook never shared any usage numbers for the app, but the signs that Paper's shelf life is coming to an end were plenty. Facebook shut down Creative Labs, Facebook's internal team that brought the app to life, in Dec. 2015, and Paper wasn't updated at all this year. Now, in a message to users, Facebook announced it would completely shut..

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• Nintendo Presses Pause on Virtual-Reality Technology

  

  TOKYO—A top executive at Japanese videogame maker Nintendo Co. has expressed concerns about introducing virtual-reality products, a likely sign that it won’t include the technology in its next-generation console, code-named “NX,” when it is released in March. Virtual reality, which offers users an immersive visual experience through head-mounted displays, is made to be used for short periods because of health concerns, including...

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