Uber updated its mobile application recently, adding features that may let it continue to collect user…
Month: December 2016
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Uber takes self-driving cars to Arizona after California demands permit
By Heather Somerville and Alexandria Sage SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Uber Technologies Inc on Thursday…
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Tesla is the top ranking car brand when it comes to customer satisfaction
Say what you will about Tesla, one unassailable fact about Tesla owners is that they…
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The sound of quantum vacuum
Quantum mechanics dictates sensitivity limits in the measurements of displacement, velocity and acceleration. A recent…
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Hubble chases a small stellar galaxy in the Hunting Dog
Lurking in the constellation of Canes Venatici or The Hunting Dog, NGC 4707 lies roughly…
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No teeth? No problem: Dinosaur species had teeth as babies, lost them as they grew
Researchers have discovered that a species of dinosaur, Limusaurus inextricabilis, lost its teeth in adolescence…
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Berkeley Institute has removed Peter Thiel’s “Heterodox Science” seminar from its website
Yesterday morning, The Verge broke the story that Peter Thiel appeared to be teaching a…
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A flight was late because someone named their Wi-Fi hotspot ‘Galaxy Note 7’
A clever but highly irresponsible troll by a passenger aboard a Virgin America flight out…
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One step closer to reality: Devices that convert heat into electricity
The same researchers who pioneered the use of a quantum mechanical effect to convert heat…
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Roadmap to more personalized cancer treatment
People with advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and the KRAS-variant inherited genetic mutation…