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Mar 28

OnePlus 6 Notch Confirmed, CEO Says ‘Learn To Love’ It

Many Android OEMs are expected to jump on the notch bandwagon this year and some already have. ASUS showcased several new handsets last month with a display notch and just yesterday, Huawei followed suit with the P20 lineup. There have been a lot of reports recently that the OnePlus 6 is also going to feature a display notch and it has now been confirmed that it will indeed have a notch. OnePlus CEO Carl Pei has said that fans must “learn to love the notch.”

OnePlus has provided the first official image of the OnePlus 6 to The Verge which confirms that the handset is going to have a notch up top. The company is going down this route because it too wants to maximize screen real estate. “What you are essentially doing is moving the entire notification bar up, giving users more content on their screen,” said CEO Carl Pei.

Pei also added that the notch will certainly be present on the OnePlus 6 and that while it’s going to be bigger than the one on the Essential Phone, which was really the first well known Android smartphone with a notch, it’s going to be smaller than the iPhone X. He even provided the precise measurements of the notch which are 19.616mm x 7.687mm.

OnePlus has also had employees manually test the top 1,000 apps on the Google Play Store to determine which apps would require a compatibility mode with the notch. It’s moving the clock to the left side of the screen to free up more space for the status icons and it’s also going to disguise the notch whenever video is playing to recreate the overall screen curvature.

No further information has been revealed by the company as yet about its upcoming flagship so we’ll have to wait until the handset is officially announced.

Learn to love the notch 😉 https://t.co/Rd9lkcksJV
— Carl Pei (@getpeid) March 28, 2018

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Mar 28

Uber Not Renewing Self-Driving Car Permit In California

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Uber’s self-driving car program has come under the spotlight following the fatal accident involving one of its test cars last week. The accident resulted in the death of a pedestrian in what’s likely the first known fatal accident involving a self-driving car. Uber has already grounded its entire fleet of self-driving cars and now the company has decided not to renew the necessary permits in California.

Uber’s existing permit to test self-driving cars on public roads in California is going to expire on March 31st. The company has decided not to re-apply for a new permit.

“We proactively suspended our self-driving operations, including in California, immediately following the Tempe incident,” said a spokesperson for Uber, adding that “Given this, we decided to not reapply for a California permit with the understanding that our self-driving vehicles would not operate in the state in the immediate future.”

California is one of the many locations where Uber has been testing self-driving cars on public roads. The fleet there was grounded immediately after the accident in Tempe, Arizona and since the company doesn’t expect to put them back on the roads in the immediate future, it doesn’t see a need to renew the permit just yet.

If and when Uber decides to start testings its self-driving cars on public roads in California once again, it’s going to have to apply for a new permit aside from addressing “any follow-up analysis or investigations from the recent crash in Arizona,” according to a letter from DMV Deputy Director/Chief Counsel Brian Soublet sent to Uber’s head of public affairs, Austin Heyworth.

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Mar 28

SoftBank Commits To World’s Largest Solar Farm Worth $200 Billion

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SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son has a penchant for backing ambitious projects and the latest project to win his stamp of approval is what’s billed as the “world’s largest solar farm.” The project itself is expected to cost $100 billion with the capability to produce 200 gigawatts of renewable energy. That’s going to be a third more than what the entire global photovoltaic industry supplied globally in 2017.

SoftBank and Saudi Arabia have signed a memorandum of understanding to build a $200 billion solar farm in the Kingdom. It’s one of the largest renewable energy deals that the Kingdom has signed so far as it has been trying to establish a foothold in clean energy and wean itself off oil.

The project is planned for the Saudi desert and at 200 gigawatts, it’s going to be 100 times larger than the next biggest proposed solar farm. If the farm is built, it would almost triple Saudi Arabia’s electricity generation capacity two-thirds of which is currently accounted for by natural gas and the rest by oil.

Son predicts that this project is going to create up to 100,000 jobs in the Kingdom and save it $40 billion in power costs. The farm is expected to reach its maximum capacity of 2020 with an estimated cost of $1 billion a gigawatt – hence the $200 billion figure.

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Mar 28

Tesla Faces Federal Investigation Over Last Week’s Fatal Crash

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It was reported last week that a Tesla Model X was involved in a fatal accident last week near Mountain View, California. The car had caught on fire as well. The report has prompted a federal field investigation by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board. The news that the NTSB is looking into the crash has spooked some Tesla investors as the company’s stock dropped sharply after the investigation was confirmed.

A Tesla Model X driver died last week after suffering injuries in a crash on the highway in the Bay Area. According to the California Highway Patrol, the car had hit the median barrier on highway 101 in Mountain View and quickly caught on fire before being hit by two other cars.

Images of the accident soon surfaced online and they showed that the front end of the Model X was completely destroyed. However, it’s not immediately clear whether that was because of the accident, the subsequent fire or the extraction process used to rescue the driver who was rushed to a nearby hospital but later succumbed to his injuries.

It’s also unclear whether the Autopilot system was engaged at the time of the accident. Autopilot is what Tesla calls its suite of semi-autonomous driving features though the company noted in a blog post that the same stretch of highway has been driven with Autopilot engaged roughly 85,000 times and there has never been an accident that the company knows of.

“We have been deeply saddened by this accident, and we have offered our full cooperation to the authorities as we work to establish the facts of the incident,” Tesla said in a statement.

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