Covfefe:Â sometimes it takes something special to make you step back and realize the state of the world you live in. That’s what happened this Tuesday evening in the U.S. when President Trump gifted the internet a very unexpected present: the covfefe meme. Within an hour of the misspelled word going out in a tweet to his 31 million followers, “covfefe” had become… Read More
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When Andy Rubin returns to smartphones after a few years in the wilderness, the tech press is going to take notice. Sites will speculate endlessly about teasers and report breathlessly about each small nuance ahead of launch. All of that comes with the territory when you’re the driving force that brought Android into the world.
For the phone-buying public, however, Rubin is not yet a… Read More
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Uber fires its head of autonomous driving, Anthony Levandowski, Essential releases its new phone and Echo competitor and Intel’s Core X gets extra extreme. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
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You won’t be happy unless you’re going Mach 2 with your hair on fire Read More
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Outspoken venture capitalist Marc Andreessen took the stage at Code Conference on Tuesday and reflected on the disconnect between the technology community and the rest of the United States. Read More
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Through Lyft and Uber, the sharing economy has taken a charge at cabs. Airbnb is making hotels palpitate in their pants. If TRVL has its way, it’s the travel agencies’ turn to tremble. Armed with 2.7 million freshly minted dollars from a conglomerate of angel investors, the company is hoping to augment services like Booking.com, Hotels.com and Tripadvisor by adding a soupçon of… Read More
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Dumping the engineer at the heart of a legal battle with Google’s Waymo doesn’t indemnify the ridehailing giant. The post Uber Fired Its Robocar Guru, But Its Legal Fight With Google Goes On appeared first on WIRED.
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The HyperX arm of memory maker Kingston introduced new Predator DDR4 system memory kits clocked at up to a crazy-fast 4,000MHz. HyperX also introduced an eight-stick kit providing 128GB of memory capacity speeding along at 3,000MHz.
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The Pentago successfully tested its interceptor missile defense against an ICBM, but that doesn’t mean the US is ready for a strike. The post Don’t Read Too Much Into That Successful Missile Defense Test appeared first on WIRED.
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Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage at Code Conference on Tuesday and talked about why he took a large position in Twitter. “There’s a real opportunity to make that a valuable economic asset,” said Ballmer, defending his decision to invest in what has been a volatile ride for the social media company. He believes in its potential because it “gives people… Read More
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