Another automaker fell victim to the WannaCry worm. Honda this week said it was forced to stop production for a day after finding some of its older production line computers infected at the Honda Sayama plant near Tokyo. Honda lost production of about 1,000 vehicles Monday. Production resumed the next day. Earlier, Nissan and Renault were hit by WannaCry and had to suspend production and plants in Britain, France, India, Japan, and Romania. WannaCry got visibility when it struck National Health Service (NHS) hospitals in the UK in May, then spread to more than 150 countries.
For many of us in the United States, getting a new phone with a massive subsidy every two years was a longtime ritual. With that subsidy came the baggage of locked phones, two-year contracts, and early termination fees. In general, consumers have welcomed the shift away from that system to the more open approach of paying separately for an unlocked phone and for service — usually on a month-to-month basis. However, the phone subsidy was addictive. It meant that you felt okay about upgrading your phone every two years, even if you really didn’t need a new phone. So it makes sense carriers have been working to bring that subsidy back in a friendlier form.
Normally, when you hear iridium, you may think of the satellite constellation. But the uses of this exotic element are not limited to digital entertainment. Iridium also has isotopes that are useful in cancer treatment — and especially in prostate cancer treatment. The results of a two-year study from Europe have come in, concerning the use of iridium-192 in . The treatment is called HDR (high dose rate) brachytherapy. And the outcomes are encouraging. Here’s how it works: HDR brachytherapy involves using ultrasound to guide the precise positioning of catheters, while the patient is under spinal or general anesthetic.
The Tesla driver who made history as the first man to die at the wheel of a semi-autonomous vehicle was not distracted by a movie while driving. But in a 37-minute period leading up to the May 2016 Florida accident, Joshua Brown apparently had his hands on the wheel for just 25 seconds. That’s the finding of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in a 500-page report released this week. Previously, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reported finding no evidence of defects in Brown’s Tesla Model S. Tesla Model S involved in first fatal crash of semi-autonomous vehicle (Florida Highway Patrol photo)
One of the most unique games shown at E3 this year is called “A Way Out.” It’s the second title by director Josef Fares, and it’s explicitly designed for multiplayer, either via the PlayStation Network or sitting side by side on the couch. Games with extensive co-op modes are comparatively rare, but games that literally require co-op play are basically unheard of. The game doesn’t take place entirely in split screen, but much of the action and gameplay uses that presentation method (the video below showcases how things work). The game itself looks interesting enough, but it’s the comments by director Josef Fares that are likely to cause some controversy.
Free PC games used to be dominated by novelty Flash games or small-scale indie testbeds. But the free-to-play phenomenon has completely changed the landscape. These days, the full-priced games that once reigned are getting some real competition from titles that offer large swaths of the experience with zero upfront cost. There’s an absurd number of free-to-play games available for the PC, and with that comes both pros and cons. The huge variety means that there’s something to fit just about any taste, but the signal-to-noise ratio is abysmal. Instead of trudging through dozens of clones and halfhearted cash grabs, let us separate the wheat from the chaff for you.
For as long as we’ve had benchmarks, we’ve had companies willing to cheat on those benchmarks to make themselves look good. It’s a never-ending cycle to identify what companies do and how they do it, and we don’t often get a clear window into the process. XDA-Developers managed a OnePlus 5, however, and the results are damning. This is a phone that’s designed to deliberately obfuscate its own performance in the name of looking better than the competition. Here’s how they describe the problem: The OnePlus 5, on the other hand, is an entirely different beast — it resorts to the kind of obvious, calculated cheating mechanisms we saw in flagships in the early days of Android, an approach that is clearly intended to maximize scores in the most misleading fashion.
A pair of Tesla fanatics in Belgium proved you can drive a Tesla Model S more than 560 miles (900 kilometers) on a single charge. That is a record, for now. It involves some tradeoffs, though: flat roads, light traffic, slow speeds, and no climate control. Steven Peeters and Joeri Cools drove at speeds around 25 mph (40 kph) as the car ran for just under 24 hours on the 100-kilowatt hour battery of a new Tesla S P100D. The record-setting Tesla P100D.
The time has come for gamers the world over to joke about burying their wallets in the backyard, but they’ll never do it. The Steam Summer Sale is starting Thursday, and that means big sales on games. An embarrassingly small number of those games will ever be played. But the prices are really good! Be honest, you’re going to buy things. This is a twice annual tradition on the Store; once in the winter and again in the summer. The summer sale has been going on longer—the winter sales only started in 2015. During these sales, Steam discounts games by huge margins, sometimes as 90 percent off.
