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Uber and Volvo have entered into an industrial partnership to collaborate on autonomous car development, the two companies announced today. The deal will see Volvo sell 100 cars to Uber by the end of the year (a few have been delivered already) along with a longer-term project to work together on new vehicles that will incorporate autonomous driving tech.
Initially, Volvo will sell Uber XC90 SUVs prepped for Uber’s autonomous vehicle control package, but not include any of its own advanced

It seems Microsoft doesn’t like Evernote. That’s okay, I don’t either. It doesn’t matter what your reasoning. Whether it’s the constant state of flux in the upper levels of management, the bloated and not-at-all reliable interface or the fact that the price just went up to $69.99 per year for premium users (up from $50) — Microsoft wants you to switch to OneNote. It’s not the first time Microsoft targeted disgruntled Evernote users, either. In Marc

Nintendo may not have had a lot to do with the development of Pokémon Go — but that doesn’t mean the company isn’t reaping benefits from the mobile game’s success. Nintendo says that the awareness generated by the smash-hit augmented reality game has resulted in a boost in sales for both the Nintendo 3DS handheld and older Pokémon games.
According to NPD data covering physical game sales in the US, not only was the 3DS the top-selling platform for July, but

Earlier this summer I wrote about the Zeeq pillow, which tracked a user’s sleep and also played music through its eight built-in speakers. Today I learned about a similar product called Kushion that’s a pillow speaker that plays music aloud. Unlike the Zeeq, which was meant for only a sleeper’s ears, the Kushion plays music for an entire room.
It’s made of ultra carbon leather and definitely seems perfect for Brookstone. I am extremely unclear on what ultra carbon leather

After the NSA hack earlier this week, the hackers — ‘Shadow Group’ — released a treasure trove of free files obtained from offshoot ‘Equation Group.’ We’re still not sure who’s behind the hack — Snowden thinks it’s Russia — or how up-to-date the information is (it’s said to be from 2010-2013), but right now, none of this matters. We just managed to see the names of some of these exploits, implants and tools used by NSA hack

We’re a couple weeks into a post-Pokémon Go world, and I have to admit that I’m not opening the app as much as I used to. I’d be back on board if I lived in Lewisville, Texas though, if only for a shot at finding a crocheted Bellsprout at a pokéstop.
Nichole Dunigan is the artist behind these handmade cuties, and she’s been hiding them in various pokéstops and gyms around her neighborhood for local kids to find.
#koffing #crochetgo #pokemongo
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Jared Leto has nabbed a role in the Blade Runner sequel, Variety reports. He joins an already solid cast, including Harrison Ford (who will reprise his role from the 1982 original), Ryan Gosling, and Robin Wright. Details on Leto’s character are not yet known.
The original Blade Runner was set in a dystopian version of Los Angeles in 2019; the sequel is said to take place several decades later. The movie will be directed by Denis Villeneuve (Sicario, Arrival), and is set for release on Oct

That LTE Apple Watch you’ve been wishing for is probably not coming any time soon — but the new version will have GPS tracking as previously rumored, so at least there’s that. According to a report from Bloomberg, Apple ran into trouble with battery life for a version of the incoming Apple Watch 2 with cellular connectivity. All that data transferring decimated the wearable’s small battery. From Bloomberg: The source of the delay is that current cellular chips consume to

Since the Olympics started earlier this month, its parent organization and broadcaster NBC have worked hard to smack down any unauthorized use (which basically amounts to any use) of its video footage. This includes ordering Twitter to remove sublime works of art like Jimmy Donofrio’s mashup of an Olympics swimming race and Santana’s "Smooth," among other posts. And as some people have noticed, Twitter is apparently doing so with a lot more zeal than it seems to devote to purging har

T-Mobile is changing how we think about carriers, there’s no doubt about that. But Uncarrier 12 — which brought us unlimited data — is like most of the company’s other moves: it’s smoke and mirrors. The highlights of the latest move by T-Mobile are unlimited LTE data, talk and text as well as free roaming in Mexico and Canada. Individuals pay $70 per month, and those on a family plan pay $40 per line. My problem with Uncarrier 12 is that these aren’t opt

After the cringeworthy moment in which pole vaulter Hiroki Ogita failed to qualify for because of his penis, the well-endowed Olympian says his member is not at fault.
The Japanese pole vaulter used Twitter to defend himself and deny that his penis was the culprit that kept him qualifying for the final rounds of his sport.
SEE ALSO: Pole vaulter's penis gets in the way of his Olympic dreams
"I never expected the foreign media to take me down like this," Ogita wrote on Twitter in Japanese, as tra

Cards Against Humanity wants to get involved in the upcoming US presidential election. The game’s makers are selling two $4 expansion packs, each with 15 cards, that are Trump or Clinton-themed. The proceeds from both card packs goes toward Clinton’s campaign. Here are some sample cards, according to Wired. One card asks, "What has been making life difficult at the nudist colony? __________."  Another says "When you go to the polls on Tuesday, remember: a vote for me is a v

Twitter introduced two features Thursday in an effort to give users more control on what notifications they receive and tweets they see.
All Twitter users will soon be able to prevent receiving notifications from people they do not follow on the microblogging site, the company announced in a blog post.
Additionally, all users can also access a quality filter that again limits what type of tweets appear in notifications and elsewhere on the network. With the setting on, Twitter users will be less

If you're looking for a place to teleport and celebrate 50 years of Star Trek, the Smithsonian has you covered.
A half century ago, on Sept. 8, 1966, the very first episode (but second pilot) of Star Trek TOS (the original series) aired on NBC with principal characters Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley) and changed the course of sci-fi fandom forever.  Now that date will, 50 years later, serve as the kick-off for three days of S

Blizzard’s latest animated short for its team shooter Overwatch is out today, and it features the origin story of the convertible robot-turret hero Bastion. While other Overwatch shorts have done a stellar job providing world-building backstories, "The Last Bastion" — as it’s called — is more emotional powerhouse than plot point delivery.
Of course, there’s some great tidbits of Overwatch history in there to help flesh out the game’s universe in lieu of a sing

Satellites staring down at Earth can see a lot from their posts in space.
Powerful eyes in the sky can pick out homes, natural formations, the pyramids and even small cars driving on roads. And now, scientists are using the wealth of data collected by these satellites to solve major problems on Earth.
A new study published in the journal Science this week uses machine learning — a type of artificial intelligence that lets computer algorithms change when given new data — coupled with

Five identical statues of a nude Donald Trump have appeared overnight on street corners in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Seattle, and New York City. So, we ran down to Union Square in NYC to see as much of fake nude Trump as our eyes could possibly tolerate (photos below!).
The Washington Post reports that the anarchist collective INDECLINE is responsible for the statues, and are calling this project "The Emperor Has No B—s." The name is ostensibly a reference to the famous fairyt

Zebra finches program their offspring to prepare for global warming by singing to eggs before they hatch. In especially hot areas, finch parents make a special call to incubating eggs, basically telling them it’s really hot outside and they better not grow too big. The hatchlings listen — and this mechanism might explain how birds learn to adapt, and survive climate change.Many bird species sing to their eggs. These calls have been shown to do everything from improving learning to sy

Denver Broncos superstar Von Miller is begging you to start him.
This year's annual Weird-Ass Madden Trailer takes a page from "Weird" Al Yankovic, casting Miller in a parody video that riffs on Justin Bieber's "Sorry." And while nothing can ever top the amazing Madden Season from 2014, this one's still pretty good.
Madden NFL 17 comes to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on Aug. 23. Also, an important protip for the football illiterate: definitely start Miller in all your games. He's really good.Unfo

The newest way to accurately predict poverty comes from satellite images and machine learning. This imaging technique could make it easier for aid organizations to know where and how to spend their money; it may also help governments develop better policy.
We already know that the more lit up an area is at night, the richer and more developed it is. Researchers use this method to estimate poverty in places where we don’t have exact data. But “night light” estimates are rough an

If Nick Gregorio had directed the original Super Mario Bros movie, it may have actually been watchable. Instead, we ended up with a dumpster fire on the big screen that featured the likes of Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo — both of which would have made stellar mobsters if they’d gone the Goodfellas angle of Gregorio’s short. It’s too late for the original, but Gregorio’s Scorsese-inspired vision of the classic Nintendo franchise is nothing short of incre

Early Thursday morning, Republican candidate for president Donald Trump wrote a cryptic tweet. 
It read, "They will soon be calling me MR. BREXIT!"
Almost immediately, the title began trending on Twitter and jokes flooded social media, each more confused than the last. But, there is a method to this that's one example of Twitter madness.
Trump is most definitely referring to the United Kingdom's June vote to leave the European Union, and most probably how the results surprised many because

The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is the best phone I’ve ever reviewed. Unfortunately, there is one problem with I didn’t notice until recently: It scratches really easily. YouTuber JerryRigEverything puts phones through brutal durability tests, including scratches, bending, and… fire. Though it survived on the whole, the Gorilla Glass 5 panel did not cope very well with the first test. Pretty much all other flagships on the market – including the

Twitter is now offering some of its most critical anti-harassment tools to every user, not just those with blue checkmarks next to their name. Now, users will be able to limit the notifications they see to only people they follow. This effectively removes any tweets from random strangers and those who use Twitter to abuse or harass. A second change is the expanded availability of Twitter's quality filter. The feature aims to "improve the quality of Tweets you see by using a variety of signals, s

Apple won't be adding cellular connectivity to the Apple Watch this year, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The company had planned to incorporate the technology and uncouple the Apple Watch from the iPhone, but ran into issues related to battery life.
According to the report, Apple was in talks with carriers in the US and Europe about bringing the Apple Watch onto their networks, but made it clear that even if it was able to ship a cellular version of the wearable this year, it wou

Paid Content By The Athlete's FootIf you've ever watched a professional women's soccer game, tuned in for a tennis match, or cheered on your country while they work on their medal count, then you already know: female athletes are awesome.Women and men are not the same. That’s a good thing. And while certain characteristics of the two are clearly different, there certainly isn’t anything a man can do on the court, on the track or in the Sydney Olympic Athletic Arena that a woman can't

Forget chilling in her crib, this baby is going to travel the world.
On Aug. 14, a woman gave birth while on a Cebu Pacific plane, four hours into a flight from Dubai to Manila. In celebration of the birth, the Philippines airline gifted the baby girl, named Haven, 1 million air mile points.
SEE ALSO: Woman who didn't know she was pregnant gives birth on flight
When Haven's mom unexpectedly went into early labor — more than five weeks before her due date — in the sky, two nurses who

Sleep startup Casper has made a splash in the very unsexy mattress industry by selling high-end mattresses without the infamous mattress store markups. And now they’ve zeroed in on a new customer who deserves a good night’s sleep as much as you do: your pup!
Casper’s latest product is a dog bed that the company claims was brought to market after 460 hours of laboratory testing and 110 prototypes. Casper’s co-founder Neil Parikh told The Verge, "People kept sending us phot

Invincible is one of the best comics out there, but the 13-year-old series that Robert Kirkman launched in the same year as The Walking Dead is coming to an end.
That's good news for you.
SEE ALSO: What comics to read at every stage of life
I've read more than 100 issues of Invincible, but stopped in 2014. Not because I didn't like the series; it was just too tough to read issue to issue. I figured I'd wait for the end, or until enough time had gone by that I could consume a few arcs at a time.

When you're strapped up and about to bungee jump, remember: your phone doesn't get a tiny little cord of its own.
This is the lesson learned by Irish bungee jumper Máirtín Farragher, who was very excited about his leap until his iPhone and what appears to be some loose change fly from his pocket and skydive into the mountains below.
While it understandably takes Farragher a few seconds to notice (he's busy bungee jumping), the exact moment his iPhone leaps out is at 0:25, if you w

Twitter has taken its commitment to combatting violent extremism to new heights.
The microblogging site has suspended 235,000 accounts for violating its terms prohibiting violent threats and promoting terrorism over the last six months, Twitter announced Thursday via a blog post. 
In February 2016, Twitter revealed it had suspended 125,000 accounts since the middle of 2015. That means in the last year Twitter has suspended 360,000 accounts. 
"Since that announcement, the world has witn

The Baddest Female is back. 
SEE ALSO: K-pop royalty showed off the hottest looks at Mnet Asian Music Awards 2015
That's right, CL, the South Korean chanteuse and tour de force who hit U.S. shores last year with her first single, "Hello Bitches," just dropped her latest music video. This time, instead of a banging beat and fierce dancing with Parris Goebel and crew, she's gone super chill. Like, smoking some herb and chillaxing on a cloud, chill. Image:YG ENTThe track was produced