Drones are useful today for real estate photos and gas pipeline inspections. They could be useful tomorrow for home security and package delivery. But in a half decade, they could well shuttle you to work over the heads of drivers stuck in traffic. That’s what Anil Nanduri, general manager of Intel’s drone group, expects. Drone …
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Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey couldn’t stop tweeting on Tuesday. For more than 90 minutes, Dorsey participated in an interview through tweets with Recode’s co-founder Kara Swisher. The 42-year-old tech mogul talked about a variety of topics from tech responsibility and safety to the use of the platform by President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. He also …
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The Japanese billionaire who’ll be Elon Musk’s first paying passenger for a trip to the moon used his deep pockets to get the most retweeted tweet on all time over weekend. Yusaku Maezawa, who was revealed as the mystery SpaceX moon passenger back in September, had 4.8 million retweets as of Monday morning, crushing Carter Wilkinson’s 2017 attempt to get …
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Now playing: Watch this: What the heck can you do with 16 cameras on your phone?… 4:53 On this podcast, we talk about: How a new LG patent would put 16 cameras on the back of your phone Today’s forecast: a 70 percent chance of Elon Musk moving to Mars Cyber Monday deals actually worth your time The 3:59 gives …
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SpaceX got the green light to send more satellites to space. The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday approved SpaceX’s request to build, deploy and operate over 7,000 satellites in the very-low-Earth orbit. SpaceX will also have more frequency bands added to its previously authorized satellites, according to the FCC’s release. The company’s Starlink program is designed to use satellites at a …
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Samsung has created smart TV software you can control with your brainwaves. The research, called Project Pontis, aims to make Samsung’s televisions more accessible for people with physical disabilities like quadriplegia. The company wants to enable “users with physical limitations to change channels and adjust sound volume with their brains.” Now playing: Watch this: Samsung’s smart TV software is controlled …
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On this podcast, we talk about: Facebook on Friday disclosed a new data breach affecting 50 million users. Tesla CEO Elon Musk agrees to step down as chairman and pay fines in a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC sued Musk over a tweet he sent out in August that inaccurately claimed he had secured funding to …
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Elon Musk is Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, founder of Space X, probably the most famous tech entrepreneur in the world. Jackson Palmer is the co-creator of Dogecoin, the cryptocurrency that started out as a harmless joke but, at its peak, had a market cap of $2 billion. For the briefest of times, they worked together to solve one …
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Roses are red, violets are blue, Elon Musk likes poetry and so do Katie Collins and Richard Trenholm. We take a look at the Tesla founder’s latest cryptic tweets in this brand-new episode of our lyrical podcast, available in audio form or on video. As research shows the pockets in womens’ clothing are too small for smartphones, we discuss whether …
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What is happening in the mind of Elon Musk? It’s one of the great questions of our time, and now we have one less portal into the entrepreneur’s head space — his Instagram account appears to have gone up in a puff of smoke. It’s not clear when exactly Musk’s account was last active, but internet archive the Wayback Machine …
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