Remember back when 3D TVs, movies, live sporting events, and glasses were a thing? Yeah, well, Nvidia realizes you don’t either, and as a result, it’s pulling support for 3D Vision, its platform for gaming with 3D glasses.
The Boeing 737 family of jets is perhaps the most successful passenger airliner ever produced. Thousands of units have been sold over the past couple of decades and Boeing continues to make new iterations of its iconic narrow-body jet in order to serve the needs of its customers. The Boeing 737 Max 8 is one of the newest variants of this jet and it has unfortunately been involved in two deadly crashes just five months apart, following which some airlines have now started to ground their fleets.
An Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max 8 crashed on Sunday merely minutes after takeoff. It’s the second fatal crash involving this jet following the Lion Air crash in October last year. There were no survivors in both incidents.
The cause of the latest incident is not yet known as the investigation is in very early stages but nevertheless, it has resulted in fears that the two Max 8 crashes could be related. The flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder of the ill-fated Ethiopian Airlines flight have both been recovered and will provide valuable details about the moments before the crash.
The 737 Max 8 has been grounded in Ethiopia, Indonesia, and China in the meantime while some of Boeing’s biggest 737 Max 8 customers have reiterated their confidence in the airplane and are continuing to operate it. Boeing has said that its technical team will travel to the crash site to provide technical assistance under the direction of the Ethiopia Accident Investigation Bureau and the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board.
Boeing’s Newest 737 Max Jets Are Being Grounded Following Crashes
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Keurig is well known for its single serve pod-based coffee machines. Other companies like Nespresso have similar coffee machines on the market as well. It’s a formula that has worked well for these companies as they sell the machines and then continue to make money by selling customers single-use pods. LG wants to employ the same formula for ice cream, it seems. The company showed off a prototype of a pod-based frozen dessert machine called the LG Snow White at the SXSW 2019 in Austin, Texas.
Much like pod-based coffee machines, the LG Snow White will use special pods. It will then be able to create a variety of frozen desserts including but not limited to ice cream, gelato, sorbets, and even frozen yogurt. LG is no stranger to such hardware. Some of you may recall that the company unveiled the LG HomeBrew at CES 2019. The machine lets users make craft beer from single use pods.
The machine will take in two pods, one for the type of dessert the user wants and the other for the flavor they desire. This will enable the machine to even create things like granita and frozen custards. Once they have made their desired dessert, a cleaning pod will be used to wash the entire system so that it’s ready to make the next treat.
There are no shortage of machines that allow you to make ice cream and other frozen desserts at home but none will be as simple as this pod-based machine. You don’t have to come up with your own recipe or even follow an existing recipe. Just drop the pods and let Snow White do its thing.
LG did mention that the Snow White is a prototype at this stage so there’s no saying if and when this will actually be marketed as a consumer product.
LG Snow White Will Do For Ice Cream What Keurig Did For Coffee
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Merely a couple of weeks ago Tesla announced that it was making a significant change to the way it sells vehicles. The company was to shut down almost all of its stores and move sales online entirely. It was described as an effort to cut down costs as the company tries to make its electric cars cheaper. Tesla has changed its mind now, though.
Tesla had 398 retail stores as of Q4 and the company was initially planning to close nearly all of them. It won’t be doing that now. Tesla is going to keep an expanded number of its retail stores open with only half of the showrooms being closed.
To accommodate the expense of keeping a lot of its existing stores open, Tesla has decided to raise prices by 3 percent. “Potential Tesla owners will have a week to place their order before prices rise, so current prices are valid until March 18th,” the company said.
It also pointed out that this price hike does not impact the cheapest Model 3 variant which costs $35,000. The price hike is applicable to the more expensive variants of the Model 3 as well as the Model S and Model X.
Tesla had actually cut the prices of these vehicles by six percent when it had announced the initial closure of almost all stores so this 3 percent hike essentially halves the earlier discount. Tesla is moving on with its strategy to sell cars online primarily.
The stores that will remain open will serve as showrooms with “smaller Tesla crews.” The employees will actually guide customers on how to purchase a Tesla online. Some stores will have a small number of cars in the inventory for customers who wish to walk out with a new Tesla that very day.
Tesla Decides To Keep Showrooms Open, Raises Prices By 3%
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Tesla has removed its Pole Position Easter Egg from its cars, after failing to secure the rights to distribute the classic Atari title. The game was added to the Tesla Model S, Model X, and Model 3 last year, as part of the Tesla v9.0 update, alongside two other classics from the back-catalog. That included Tempest and Missile Command. Each … Continue reading
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