The Meizu MX4 Pro has made its debut, and with it comes an upgraded version of the company’s previously released MX4 flagship. Features abound, some of them a tad odd (“Retina Sound”), but overall the handset looks to pack a punch, bringing with it display resolution a little above 2k, a Samsung Exynos 5430 processor, and the mTouch fingerprint reader, … Continue reading
This week Chevrolet has revealed the Chaparral 2X VGT concept car, a vehicle designed specifically for the Vision Gran Turismo project. This vehicle was developed exclusively for fans of the PlayStation racing game Gran Turismo 6, and is indeed a fully working vehicle. It’s certainly not made for the production lines in the long term – instead, it’s made to … Continue reading
Stop waiting. If you can afford it, it’s time to get a new-gen console, and the Xbox One is a worthwhile one to get.
Tommy Williamson from BrickNerd has shared this funny stop-motion video of the epic battle between Batman and Superman. The background sets are incredibly good and the animation is so clever that it looks like CGI but it isn’t. This thing had to take a bunch of time to produce so, go enjoy it and share accordingly.
Peruse the digital wares of the OSX or iOS stores, and you might notice a peculiar change: All of the apps previously labeled as “free” now say “get.” It’s a pretty small change that has no real impact on us users. “Get” apps are still free, and the apps themselves haven’t changed either. “Get” is just a more accurate description of your digital transaction.
In an interview this afternoon at the Defense One Summit, DARPA director Arati Prabhakar explained the history and future of the agency. And Prabhakar wants it known that Google and other commercial enterprises are not their enemy. In fact, they’re more important that ever to DARPA’s national security goals, as private R&D spending has slowly surpassed public spending over the past 60 years.
Any household with small roaming humans inevitably has to block its electrical sockets from tiny probing fingers. But most of the childproof measures out there—plastic plugs, sliding faceplates—can still be impregnated by determined hands. This outlet prototype wouldn’t supply any electricity to its sockets until a plug is inserted—and it could even tell the difference between a plug and, say, a wet fork.
Back in March, we learned Ikea had purchased an Illinois wind farm big enough to power all its US stores. Well, that was small potatoes. Today the company announced its largest investment in renewables ever: The acquisition of a much larger wind farm in Texas.
The saga of Apple’s disappearing sapphire screens seems to have finally offered some concrete answers. According to a recent article by the Wall Street Journal, the screens’ supplier, GT Advanced Technologies, wasn’t just mismanaged—the product they were putting out was pretty much unusable.
Remember when Yahoo was your go-to search engine for browsing the web? It might be again soon, at least if you’re a Firefox user. Mozilla and Yahoo just announced a five year deal to make Yahoo the web browser’s default search engine, supplanting…
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