Hyundai has been officially EPA rated for an impressive driving range for its EV called the Kona Electric. The EPA has given the SUV a rating of 258 miles per charge. That works out to MPGe figures of 132 city, 108 highway, and 120 combined. Hyundai’s ride will go through 28 kWh of juice for every 100 miles of driving. … Continue reading
In a bid to try and introduce some digital wellness to its app, Instagram rolled out a feature last month which would tell users when they’ve reached the end of their feed, informing them that they’ve been caught up with all the latest posts. The idea is that it would try to get users to spend less time on the app to prevent addiction.
Ironically enough it seems that Instagram has decided to circumvent their own feature with a new feature in the form of recommended posts. Recommended posts aren’t new, but what Instagram is now doing is testing out introducing these recommended posts at the end of your feed, meaning that once you’ve reached the end of the latest updates from people you follow, Instagram will introduce new posts that it thinks you might be interested in.
According to Instagram, “Our goal is to make Feed the best place to share and connect with the people and interests that matter most to you. Now with recommended posts, you can see even more of what’s being shared by our community.” Like we said, it is admittedly rather ironic since the point of the whole “You’re all caught up” feature is to get users off its app, but for those who don’t really care too much about it, we suppose this could be a useful way to find new posts.
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So why isn’t the U.S. following suit?
Famed Russian arms maker Kalashnikov wants to branch out from making guns, and get to the serious business of making mechs. That’s where the REAL carnage is at. Recently they were showing off their wares at the Army-2018 International Forum in Moscow, and one of its coolest designs is a mech that looks a lot like ED-209 from Robocop. It’s a concept, so right now it’s just a statue. We think.
Kalashnikov has released photos from the exhibition, and this thing is what everyone is talking about. The company says that the walker could be used to solve “engineering and combat tasks,” which we can assume means it can fix things and kill things.
We have no idea if this prototype actually moves or even walks. We know that it can look like a statue, which means that if it does work, it could use the element of surprise. Kalashnikov says continuing development of the machine will be displayed at the next military exhibition.
I’ve seen Robocop, so I know how this plays out. Except we don’t have Peter Weller to protect us like in the movie. We need a Robocop on our side before they complete this thing. Your move, creep!
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Amazon’s back at it today with its first Logitech PC accessory Gold Box in several months, with deals available for gamers and non-gamers alike.
Qualcomm is keeping up its habit of using bleeding edge manufacturing for its mobile processors. The chip designer has confirmed that its “upcoming flagship mobile platform” will include a system-on-a-chip (read: the next Snapdragon) built using a fa…
In a battle of giants, it’s the little guys that get stomped on. There seems to be a revolution brewing in the mobile market, with key players no longer satisfied with the status quo that once made them rich. They’re seemingly flipping the finger at “The Man” and rallying in support of the common folk. It isn’t a David vs. … Continue reading
Apple has suppliers from all over the world, such as China, Taiwan, just to name a few. However in a report from DigiTimes, it seems that Apple could be making the move to recruit more suppliers in China and shift away from Taiwan in a bid to help reduce their costs. The report cites how this shift has resulted in some Taiwanese suppliers being forced to seek out new businesses.
According to the report, “Taiwan-based battery module maker Simplo Technology, for instance, has moved to develop and produce batteries for electric bikes and spare battery modules for datacenters in the wake of Apple releasing most of its orders for MacBook and iPhone battery modules to China’s Desay Battery Technology and Sunwoda Electronic in the past few years. Now Simplo has become the world’s second-largest supplier of electric bike battery modules.”
Apple has come under fire in the past for creating products that are too expensive. Granted Apple has never really been known for cheap or affordable products, but there are many who feel that the iPhone X in 2017 which was priced starting at $1,000 was a little too much. There have also been complaints about its MacBook Pros which are also too expensive for most.
Whether or not this ultimately helps Apple to keep costs down, in which the savings are then passed down to consumers, or if Apple just wants a higher profit margin remains to be seen.
Apple Is Reportedly Moving To More Chinese Suppliers To Lower Costs , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
When you see someone post a ton of links, videos, photos, from questionable sources, chances are the next time they post something new, you’ll probably just ignore it. This is versus someone who vets their sources and whose posts usually come from well-known and reputable sources, in which you’d be more inclined to check out their links.
Turns out that Facebook has a similar trustworthiness rating system internally in which they use to rate its users. In a report from the Washington Post, apparently Facebook has an internal rating system that they use to rate the trustworthiness of its users whenever they report fake news, with a score that is either zero or one.
Basically the problem Facebook discovered was that sometimes users who disagreed with a post would flag it as fake news. Such users would presumably over time be marked as being untrusthworthy with their flags, versus someone who actually reports actual fake news even if it was an article they don’t agree on, in which their flags would then be viewed as more trustworthy.
According to Tessa Lyons, the product manager at Facebook who deals with misinformation, she told the Post that it is “not uncommon for people to tell us something is false simply because they disagree with the premise of a story or they’re intentionally trying to target a particular publisher.” That being said it is unclear as to how Facebook uses these scores, or if Facebook will ever give users a way to check their score.
Facebook Is Apparently Rating Users For Trustworthiness , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
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