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Tesla has produced 260 Model 3s since the car’s launch this summer, meaning the company is behind the original target of around 1,600 mentioned by CEO Elon Musk on Twitter in July. Of those produced, 220 were delivered. “Production bottlenecks” are to blame for the poor starting pace, according to Tesla, which says that “a handful” of manufacturing subsystems at both its California plant and Nevada Gigafactory “have taken longer to activate than expected.&rdqu

Google’s Pixel event is happening just two days from now, but it sounds like we’ll have to wait at least two more weeks after that before the first devices start shipping. VentureBeat is reporting that the Pixel 2 will be released on October 19th, two weeks later. And Pixel 2 XL buyers may have to wait even longer, until November 15th.
The October 19th date makes plenty of sense. Last year, the Pixel was announced on October 5th and shipped on October 20th; this year, the Pixel 2 is

Samsung is set to make around $110 from each iPhone X that Apple sells, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal.To clarify, that’s Samsung as a corporate entity — specifically the conglomerate’s component manufacturing arm — not Samsung Electronics, which makes Galaxy smartphones and is generally the more familiar part of the company to most consumers. The Journal estimates that Samsung’s profits from the iPhone X are expected to be so large that the

It's the most magical time of the year. Many of the world's absolute best nerds have materialized in a hotel somewhere and are giving talks to each other about the future of programming. I'm of course talking about Strange Loop, an annual "multi-disciplinary conference that brings together the developers and thinkers building tomorrow's technology in fields such as emerging languages, alternative databases, concurrency, distributed systems, security, and the web."
I've never gone to Strange Loop

Facebook Messenger Lite, the excellent, cruft-free of Facebook’s chat app that focuses on the essentials, is expanding to the US, UK, Canada, and Ireland. The Android-only app was originally launched so that users could access Messenger in areas with sluggish mobile connectivity.
But even outside of its intended markets, Android users have taken to sideloading Messenger Lite as an escape from the growing ball of features that the main Android and iOS app has become. Sadly, there’s no

An Indiana couple has pled guilty to charges of federal mail fraud and money laundering resulting from an elaborate plot that fleeced Amazon out of over $1.2 million in merchandise, according to The Star Press.
Erin Finan, 38, and Leah Finan, 37, enacted their scheme by taking advantage of Amazon’s accommodating returns policy, which does not always require a broken item be sent back before a replacement is issued. Under hundreds of false identities, the couple ordered electronic goods lik

Do you love gadgets? And people talking about gadgets? And unscripted gadget demos that flirt with the possibility of complete disaster?Well, we’ve got a show for you. We’re taking Circuit Breaker, The Verge’s gadget blog, and bringing it to Twitter as an hour-long weekly live show. Paul Miller, Ashley Carman, Jake Kastrenakes, Chaim Gartenberg, and I will be putting as many gadgets as we can on screen, taking your questions, and generally causing as much gadget-related chaos a

Dave Zatz of Zatz Not Funny has uncovered a full diagram of TiVo's rumored voice-controlled remote. The image and an FCC listing suggest that users will be able to search by title, actor, or keyword. They'll also be able to launch apps, like Netflix, navigate to specific channels, or get back to TiVo's menu. The full user manual is available to peruse, including details on setup.
Take a look at the diagram and start thinking about how you'll push these buttons.FCC / TiVo (Zatz Not Funny)The othe

If you’ve dreamed about driving the Google Maps Street View car, now you can take the DIY route. Chinese camera maker Insta360 announced today that the Pro — its $3,500 camera that shoots 8K, 360-degree imagery — is the first to be certified by Google as part of the “Street View Ready” program announced back in May. Basically, this is Google giving you the thumbs-up that this camera meets the specifications, quality, and accuracy necessary for capturing Street View

 In the early hours of the morning as reports were coming in about the mass shooting in Las Vegas, some of the largest websites in the world were distributing unverified claims about the attack.
Google, which was running reports from 4chan in some of its search queries as a top story, explained to us what went wrong… and how it enabled some false information from one of the web’s… Read More

T-Mobile says it will continue to claim it has the country’s fastest LTE network even after the National Advertising Division, a telecom industry watchdog group, “recommended” that it stop doing so in print, TV, and web advertisements. “NAD previously recognized third-party crowd-sourced data as a way to look at network performance, so we looked at the latest results, and verified what we already knew,” said Janice V. Kapner, T-Mobile’s senior vice president o

 ServiceNow is best known for helping large organizations organize field service and help desk activity. Today it bought design firm Telepathy because it knows that offering enterprise-class functionality isn’t enough anymore. Your applications have to look good too.
The company did not reveal the acquisition price
Telepathy is a design firm that was founded in 2001 in San Diego and… Read More

We’re two days out from Google’s Pixel event, and 9to5Google has a report on a new initiative that could get announced there: a certification program for third-party accessories. It’ll apparently be called “Made for Google.”
There aren’t any other details at this point, but 9to5Google says the announcement should come “soon.” Whether that’s on Wednesday or sometime later this year, though, is unclear.
Google will want to make it easy for thir

Since 2014, Facebook has offered a service called Safety Check in the wake of dangerous incidents. If you have the Facebook mobile app and are in an area hit by something like a natural disaster, Facebook may trigger a push notification asking you to verify your status. If you mark yourself as safe, the system will automatically add a post to your News Feed with that message, so anyone checking on you can see quickly that you’re okay.Facebook also creates a dedicated page where users can c

The best part of Ikea’s new smart light system is its dimmer. The dimmer doesn’t work very well, and its battery ran out in under a month, but it’s cute and yellow, and my cat absolutely loves it. It’s a tiny little disk that he can bat around almost endlessly. There’s a magnet in it; and at one point, it got stuck to his collar and he had to paw it off and it was absolutely adorable. Eventually, he hid the thing under my radiator, and I lost track of it for a month

Puerto Rico’s extensive power loss in the wake of Hurricane Maria has been captured in newly released images from one of NASA’s Earth-orbiting satellites. The intense Category 4 storm left practically all of the 3.4 million US citizens in the country without access to electrical power, and many are still waiting for the lights to come back on. These new before and after nighttime photos show just how much of Puerto Rico’s biggest cities remained in the dark up to a week after M

General Motors announced today that it will introduce two new all-electric vehicles within the next 18 months, the first of at least 20 new EVs that the automaker will launch by 2023. GM also renewed its commitment to hydrogen fuel cell technology, a clean fuel concept that still needs major infrastructure upgrades before it can become a viable alternative.At a press conference in Detroit this morning, GM’s executive vice president of global product development Mark Reuss said that the com

DJI has launched a Local Data Mode that stops internet traffic to and from its app when its drones are in flight. The new mode, announced back in August after the US Army banned DJI drones for possible cyber vulnerabilities, is essentially a privacy feature. It will be available in the latest update to the DJI Pilot app on CrystalSky (DJI’s propriety tablet optimized for its drones) and on some Android tablets. The mode isn’t yet available for iOS or consumers using the DJI GO 4 app,

Samsung announced a new SmartThings-powered home security system today, but with an interesting twist: the company has partnered with ADT, a professional home security company, to provide optional security monitoring services. The end result is a product that combines DIY smart home products with professionally installed and monitored security systems, for what may be the best of both worlds.Combining DIY smart home gear and professionally monitored security systems
The base bundle is the $549.9

Previously, on the drama surrounding Star Trek: Discovery ... 
CBS decided to air a single episode of a two-part premiere on its network, then insisted anyone who wanted to watch the second half had to sign up for $6-a-month streaming service CBS All Access. 
The US audience, including hardcore Trekkies, tore itself apart in angst over whether to pay yet another subscription fee for yet more online content. The international audience, which had the show delivered via Netflix, pointed a

Tis the season for all things pumpkin, including creepy Stranger Things posters. Netflix released a disturbing new teaser for Stranger Things 2 just in time for fall, which features Sheriff Hopper (David Harbour) shining a flashlight on what appears a pumpkin graveyard.
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The pumpkins are decayed, rotting, and just slightly submerged in an eerie fog. They look like they're in the Upside Down — or that somet