Rent the Driveway for cars never took off the way Rent the Runway did for women’s fashion. So General Motors’ fledgling Book by Cadillac car-subscription service is a goner. Or, as GM said, it’s on “pause.” Cadillac was charging $1,800 a month for one tier with performance sedans, a midsize crossover, and the Escalade plus-size SUV. Subscribers could swap cars 18 times a year. The demise of Book by Cadillac will have at least one important social benefit: the decline of the buzzphrase “curated” in relation to cars.
There’s a small group of Blizzard fans still hopefully waiting for a sequel announcement that may never come. I’m speaking, of course, about The Death and Return of Superman, the company’s first title published under the “Blizzard Entertainment” brand. Just kidding. I’m actually talking about Warcraft III. Fans of Blizzard’s fantasy RTS have waited over 15 years for a sequel and… well, they still aren’t getting one. But they are getting a remastered Warcraft III and presumably Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. Here’s the remastered opening scene: Remaster or Remake? It’s not clear if this is a remaster or a remake.
The kilogram is one of the most important and widely used units of measure in the world — unless you live in the US. For everyone else, having an accurate reading on what a kilogram is can be vitally important in fields like manufacturing, engineering, and transportation. Of course, a kilogram is 1,000 grams or 2.2 pounds if you want to get imperial. That doesn’t help you define a kilogram, though. The kilogram is currently controlled by a metal slug in a French vault, but its days of importance are numbered. Scientists are preparing to . It’s actually harder than you’d expect to know when a measurement matches the intended standard, even when it’s one of the well-defined Systéme International (SI) units.
Google has always struggled with the so-called fragmentation of the Android platform, but that hasn’t stopped it from becoming the most popular computing platform on the planet. Last year, Google unveiled a new Android framework called Project Treble that was supposed to make updates faster. Now that a new version of Android is rolling out, we can begin to assess to the success of Treble. So far, there’s . In 2017, Google added Project Treble as part of Oreo. It only required new Oreo phones to ship with Treble, but a few device makers added it in Oreo updates anyway.
While the International Space Station (ISS) is a technological marvel, it has not traditionally had a lot of onboard processing capacity. That changed last year when NASA delivered a supercomputer to the station. It was only there for a test run, but now the agency . Eventually, NASA and manufacturer HP hope to understand why some parts of the computer work well in orbit and others don’t. The Spaceborne Computer is a joint project between NASA and HP to study how operate in space. Most computers aboard the ISS and other space missions have been designed with hardened chips and custom hardware for long-term operation in high-radiation, low-gravity environments.
If you’re in need of a little escapism right about now, this week’s Humble Comics Bundle by IDW is worth checking out. Explore your 1980s nostalgia with some excellent DRM-free digital comics starting at just $1. • At the lowest level, you’ll get books from franchises like Jem, Back to the Future, Star Trek, and more. Pay a minimum of $1Transformers: Classics Vol. 1Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan #1My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Vol. 1Jem and the Holograms, Vol. 1: ShowtimeG.I. Joe: Classics Vol. 1Ghostbusters Vol. 1Bloom County: The Complete Digital Library Vol.
If you pay attention to phone launches, you may have noticed an unusual trend with the latest bumper crop from Apple, Samsung, and other OEMs. According to many reviewers, battery life for new devices has regressed overall. The exact figures vary depending on what kind of tests you run and which devices you compare, but in many cases, 2018 devices aren’t matching the performance of earlier models. The Washington Post, which recently covered the issue, its own Wi-Fi browsing tests: Data by the Washington Post In their tests, devices like the iPhone 8 Plus beat the iPhone XS by an hour, with the Pixel 2 outperforming the Pixel 3 by nearly 90 minutes.
Flickr was, for a time, the premiere online photo sharing site for professionals and semi-professionals. Yahoo bought the site early on, slowly transforming it into a more consumer-oriented product. Now that Yahoo has been sold off in pieces, the new Flickr owner wants to take the site back to its roots. However, that means most of your photos could soon vanish as the free storage tier . Circa 2004, Flickr launched with a limit of 200 photos for free accounts. It was mainly a portfolio site for photographers, but that was before the explosion of mobile photography. Yahoo bought the site in 2005 for around $25 million, but it slowly expanded the free offerings year after year to attract more users.
Google’s line of Pixel phones is known mostly for what they take away. They proudly ship with stock Android rather than the “optimized” variants that companies like Samsung ship. They receive regular security updates to ensure fewer long-lasting security bugs, though Google has taken steps to improve the update situation on partner devices as well, over the years. Now, just weeks after the debut of the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, Google is at it again, giving users more of what they always wanted by giving them less. Image by Android Police This secret developer preview of an unintentional bug a new hidden capability proves that all the kerfuffle over Google allowing you to hide the notch on Pixel 3 devices was fundamentally misplaced.
