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Toyota’s president said 24-hour endurance races may be too hard on hybrid electric drivetrains, and for now, he may be right. The winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans Sunday, a Porsche, spent an hour in the pit getting repairs to the hybrid front axle. Meanwhile, the best Toyota entrant spent two hours getting a similar repair and finished eighth. “While the hybrid technology that has advanced through competition in the FIA World Endurance Championship puts its abilities on display in six-hour races,” Toyota president Akio Toyoda said, “it might be that it is not yet ready for the long distance of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
The London-based AI group DeepMind is at it again, inching us closer to the robot apocalypse and collecting news headlines along the way. In a pathbreaking paper published last week, DeepMind revealed fresh inroads towards the creation of an artificial general intelligence that uses spatial reasoning – what might be likened to the holy grail of computer science and the source of for Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk. Wherever you stand on the so called “,” it’s worth unraveling the science coming out of DeepMind, if for no other reason than AI is playing an ever-increasing role in the world as we continue to outsource more of our decisions to machines.
Scientists from the UK have figured out how to use a force field to separate cells, and it’s about to change prostate cancer research. It’s done with an “electric sieve” that began its life as a bit of aluminum foil with some epoxy smeared on it. This new, sci-fi approach is based on another research technique called “dielectrophoresis.” To date, the major use case for dielectrophoresis has been DNA sequencing. Sanger sequencing, the cornerstone of DNA sequencing for decades, depends on dielectrophoresis to organize mixed-up bits of DNA so we can read them and put them in the right order.
Getting deep into custom can be a costly hobby as you search for the right combination of switches, keycaps, and features. Even more annoying than the cost is the arduous process of simply finding those keyboards. One of the best custom keyboards out there is now available in a new place—Kickstarter. A campaign for the has gone live with a number of new features and a lower price. I from the original Massdrop release last year, which you can read about. I still use this board frequently, even with plenty of other customs in my collection (I have a problem).
Chinese smartphone startup OnePlus has made its name over the last few years by offering high-end specs for a much lower price than more established smartphone makers. It’d developed something of a cult following, too. The run-up to the OnePlus 5 announcement was filled with rumors and leaks, and now we have all the details. OnePlus has with an aluminum chassis, Snapdragon 835, up to 8GB of RAM, and a dual camera array. Pricing starts at $479 and pre-orders are live today. The Snapdragon 835 is the same chip that powers the vastly more expensive Galaxy S8, and you can’t even get a version of that phone with 8GB of RAM.
So-called electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) have become increasingly popular over the past few years, as the number of people who smoke traditional cigarettes in the United States has continued to decline. Proponents of e-cigarettes have argued that they can help people stop smoking (and I’m personally friends with one former smoker who used e-cigarettes as a stepping stone to quitting nicotine altogether). Proponents also say they’re less dangerous than conventional tobacco. Others have argued that the aerosolized fluid that e-cigarettes create can create health issues of its own. A number of businesses prohibit vaping along with smoking. Now, security researchers have demonstrated e-cigarettes can be used as a potential attack vector against PCs and laptops.
Microsoft’s upcoming Xbox One X is an impressive piece of kit, given its . But Microsoft could only hit the specs it targeted by compromising on one critical issue: Profitability. Unlike the Xbox One and Xbox One S refresh, both of which made money from Day 1 and were profitable pieces of hardware, Microsoft isn’t earning a cent on the Xbox One X. That’s the word from Phil Spencer, head of the Xbox division. When by Business Insider if the would be profitable for Microsoft, Spencer flatly answered “No.” When Business Insider asked if that meant Microsoft was taking a loss on the hardware, Spencer stated “I didn’t answer it that way.
In one sense, E3 2017 was something of a disappointment. Sure, Microsoft had its new to unveil, but we spent the majority of the press events watching trailers for games that we already knew about going in. But in spite of the lightly crushed expectations, there were still plenty of games to get excited about. So let’s move past the dashed hopes, and explore the 10 best games from this year’s show. Now read:
