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At the rate things are going, carmakers are definitely starting to look towards a future where cars will no longer have to rely on fossil fuels to be powered, and will instead rely on clean energy like electricity (hydrogen-powered cars are also a possibility). However when will such a future arrive where electric cars might overtake regular cars?

At least for Volvo, the company is aiming for 2025. According to the company, it seems that they are hoping that by 2025, at least half of their sales will be that of electric cars. This was revealed by the company’s CEO Håkan Samuelsson at the Beijing Auto Show where he was quoted as saying, “Last year we made a commitment to electrification in preparation for an era beyond the internal combustion engine. Today we reinforce and expand that commitment in the world’s leading market for electrified cars.”

Prior to this, in 2017 Volvo announced a goal where they stated that in 2019, all models that they will be unveiling will feature an electric motor. While some of these cars might be hybrids, they will all feature an electric motor at least. However this latest commitment seems to be taking it to the next level where they hope that half of their car sales will be of the full electric variety.

Will they be able to achieve that goal? We’ll have to wait and see, but Volvo is definitely not alone in this and we expect that in the future more customers will start adopting similar green modes of transportation.

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There are some concerns that users have with smart speakers and that is they typically come with an always-listening feature. This is usually done so that the speaker can react when the trigger phrase is spoken, but there are some who are worried that as a result of this feature, companies are listening in all the time and invading their privacy.

All companies reassure users that they are not, but unfortunately in Amazon’s case, that reality was almost proven true. According to researchers from security firm Checkmarx (via CNET), it seems that they have discovered a flaw in Alexa that allowed Echo devices to be listening all the time and also allow others to eavesdrop.

The good news is that Checkmarx reached out to Amazon before disclosing the flaw publicly, and that Amazon has since fixed the issue. It is unclear as to whether or not hackers might have exploited the flaw before it was fixed, but so far we haven’t heard anything. In a statement made by Amazon, “Customer trust is important to us and we take security and privacy seriously. We have put mitigations in place for detecting this type of skill behavior and reject or suppress those skills when we do.”

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“It feels like the last Ed Balls day was just a few months ago.”

Last month the folks at Square Enix announced the next installment in the Tomb Raider series called Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Now more details about the upcoming game have been revealed such as the various special editions of the game that players can buy, along with the season pass.

Now in terms of the various editions of the game offered, there will obviously be the standard version of the game, but if you’re willing to fork out a bit more money, there will be the digital deluxe version of the game which will give players 48 hours early access to the game, additional skills booster pack, the game’s soundtrack, and an additional weapon/outfit.

For those willing to go one step further, there will also be the Croft Edition which gives gamers everything that the digital deluxe version has, along with more weapons and outfits. It will also include the game’s season pass which includes 7 challenge tombs, 7 weapons, outfits, and skills that are part of the season pass, and several narrative side missions.

Last but not least there will also be the Ultimate Edition which contains everything from the Croft Edition, along with some physical goodies like a statue of Lara Croft, a bottle opener shaped like a pickaxe, and a Tomb Raider style flashlight. Pricing of the various versions of the game have yet to be confirmed but pre-orders will be going live soon with the game expected to be launched on the Xbox One, PS4, and PC on the 14th of September.

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One of the complaints that some users had about Apple’s new MacBook Pros is that they do not support 32GB of RAM. The maximum amount of RAM that users could configure was 16GB, which is more than enough for the average user, but since this is the MacBook “Pro”, there are some professionals who might require more.

Apple had previously stated that 32GB of RAM would have compromised the battery of the laptop and would also require a change of the laptop’s logic board, but unfortunately if you were hoping that this would have been addressed this year, you might be out of luck. Intel’s recent quarterly earnings report has revealed that the company is expected to continue shipping chips using the 14nm process this year, and that high volume production of 10nm chips are only expected in 2019.

What this means is that if Apple were to decide to support 32GB MacBook Pros, it would only happen in 2019 at the earliest. This is because Intel’s 10nm Cannon Lake processors have support for LPDDR4 memory which will allow for support of 32GB of RAM. The new processors are also said to produce low amounts of heat and lower battery usage, which should address the concerns that Apple had previously mentioned.

This should be taken with a grain of salt for now since it is only speculation that Intel’s delay of their 10nm processors would affect the launch of 32GB MacBook Pros. Plus there is also no guarantee that Apple would support 32GB of RAM even if it started using the new 10nm processors, but we’ll still keep our fingers crossed!

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