Pentalobes are a totally proprietary, entirely awful type of screw used by Apple to make its products difficult to repair. I know it’s popular for Android manufacturers to be “inspired” by some iPhone features, but this is one thing I could do without copying.
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You might want to think twice before you find another crowdfunding project with your PayPal account. Starting on June 25th, PayPal is updating its User Agreement to remove Purchase Protection on crowdfunding projects, which means dissatisfied Kickstarter and Indiegogo contributors will no longer be able to dispute charges.
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It’s not uncommon these days to see new albums from big name artists launch exclusively on a particular streaming platform. Kanye’s “The Life of Pablo”, for instance, was a Tidal exclusive for a number of weeks before it ultimately found its way to Apple Music, iTunes and Spotify. More recently, Beyonce’s “Lemonade” album is only available to stream via Tidal, though it is available for purchase via iTunes. And most recently, Drake’s new album “Views” launched as an Apple Music and iTunes exclusive for just one week.
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Tesla Motors and SpaceX aren’t Elon Musk’s only major transportation-related projects. In fact, he’s also working on a train system where passengers could be shipped between cities at speeds close to the speed of sound. Called Hyperloop, the train is a mix between the Concorde plane, a railgun, and an air-hockey table, according to the inventor. And while Musk might not be overseeing this one directly, the Hyperloop project is slowly advancing.
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Long before the Marvel Cinematic Universe was even a twinkle in Kevin Feige’s eye, Sony was making its mark on the film industry with a series of outlandishly successful Spider-Man movies.
Starring Tobey Maguire and directed by Sam Raimi, the franchise helped to usher in the wave of superhero movies that are currently drawing massive crowds all over the world. But despite all this, Maguire didn’t make it to the MCU.
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Over the weekend, Nvidia finally unveiled the long-awaited Geforce GTX 1080 graphics cards. Running on the company’s new Pascal architecture, the GTX 1080 is simultaneously more power efficient and more powerful than the last generation of cards, while retailing for an even lower price.
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With more than 400,000 Tesla Model 3 reservations already on the books, it’s no secret that Tesla will have to kick things into high gear to ensure that reservation holders won’t need to wait until 2020 to receive their car.
To address such concerns, Tesla during its earnings conference call this past Wednesday announced a more aggressive production timeline that will see the company aim to manufacture 500,000 vehicles in 2018, two years ahead of its initial 2020 projection. In fact, Tesla CEO Elon Musk went so far as to boldly predict that Tesla by 2017 will see Model 3 production fall in the 100,000 to 200,000 range.
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Home theater projector prices have really come down in recent years, but the best of the bunch are still pretty expensive. For example, if you see a projector that does 3D 1080p HD and is so good that it’s rated for gaming, you can probably safely assume that it’s going to be a bit pricey. When it comes to the Optoma GT1080 1080p 3D DLP Gaming Projector, your assumption would be correct — but not while it’s on sale for 55% off list!
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Earlier today, a report from Gizmodo quoted anonymous employees saying that Facebook manipulated its “Trending News” section, blacklisting some sites, and was “artificially injecting” topics into the trending section. In a statement issued by Facebook, the company carefully avoided denying the report, instead saying that it takes “allegations of bias very seriously.”
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Over the weekend, officials in Glassgow, Scottland rigged a 24-story building with explosives in an effort to safely demolish it. And seeing as how building demolitions don’t come around all that frequently, photographer Garry Cornes set out to video tape the entire event.
Picking out the perfect spot from across the street, Cornes set up his video camera to get an all-encompassing wide shot of the controlled explosion. Everything was seemingly in order as the first round of explosives went off, that is, until the entire video was ruined by an unsuspecting photobomber.
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