Near-crashes have been reported after a software update lets customers bring their car through parking lots with no one at the wheel. Someone at work has this feature and was showing it off recently. The U.S. government’s highway safety agency is gathering information on reports of malfunctions with a Tesla feature that lets drivers summon…
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Win10 Favored CPU Core Optimization
This sounds like a good thing. With Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0, an operating system will use information stored in the CPU to identify which cores are the fastest and then push more of the CPU intensive tasks to those cores. According to Intel, this technology “delivers more than 15% better single-threaded performance”. For…
How SNL pulled off Billie Eilish’s performance
If you saw Saturday Night Live this past weekend, you saw an interesting performance. Billie Eilish turned heads as the first musical guest on Season 45 of “Saturday Night Live” Saturday with a performance of her hit song “Bad Guy” that appeared to show her walking on the walls and ceilings of Studio 8H. For…
Elon Musk Updates Starship Progress
SpaceX’s Starship and Super Heavy launch vehicle is a reusable transportation system designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and anywhere else in the solar system. On Saturday, September 28 at their launch facility in Cameron County, Texas, SpaceX Chief Engineer and CEO Elon Musk provided an update on…
Digitally de-aged Robert De Niro shows us how far the tech has come
I saw a clip of this movie on one of the late shows and was thoroughly impressed. Martin Scorsese’s long-awaited mob movie “The Irishman” is a decades-long epic that uses de-aging visual effects on the film’s stars — Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Al Pacino. The latest Mach at the Movies looks at how…
Ordering iPhone 11?
There’s one thing that wireless carriers might not want you to know. Apple will sell you an iPhone that will work on any carrier in the U.S. or abroad out of the box…AT&T and T-Mobile, however, lock phones on installment-payment plans until you pay them off, leaving you unable to switch carriers or use cheap…
Amazon Orders 100K Electric Vans from Rivian
Rivivan was just an EV startup, now they could be a potential market leader. Rivian went from EV startup to potential market leader as Amazon announced an order for 100,000 electric delivery vans. That investment back in February is starting to make a little more sense. The announcement came as part of Amazon Chief Jeff…
5G tech could set weather forecasting back decades
Yikes, we don’t need them to be any less accurate! The next generation of cell service, 5G, touts great consumer benefits including high speeds, low latency, and better reliability. But some experts are worried 5G could interfere with weather-tracking systems, making weather forecasts as much as 30 percent less accurate. For more, check out this…
Air Force Wants Flying Car
The Air Force wants a flying car to replace the V-22 Osprey aircraft. Agility Prime is the name of a new U.S. Air Force (USAF) project to replace the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft with a combat-ready flying car. According to Defense One, the program will begin this fall as the Air Force tries to tap into…
Real-life Atlantis: Lost continent found
Research has turned up lost continents buried beneath Europe and in the Pacific Ocean, and there may be more. If you don’t recall seeing Greater Adria on a map, there’s a reason for that. It is completely buried — not under the ocean, but beneath southern Europe. About 140 million years ago, the two continents began…