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January 4, 2016
One Step Closer To Reality: Oculus Rift Pre-Orders Open On January 6
The much-anticipated VR product will come with a couple of free games and experiences.
Oculus, the Facebook-owned virtual reality company, today announced that its signature product, the Rift, will start taking pre-orders on Wednesday, January 6, at 8 a.m. (PST).
GM Partners With Lyft To Build A Network Of Self-Driving Cars
Automaker GM will invest $500 million in ride-sharing startup Lyft, which is now valued at $5.5 billion.
Lyft, the ride-hailing startup, announced today that it is partnering with General Motors to create a network of on-demand self-driving cars. The announcement comes as Lyft closes a $1 billion funding round, half of which came from GM. Lyft is now valued at $5.5 billion.
Four New Elements Have Been Added To The Periodic Table
The four new man-made elements are the first to be added since 2011.
Chemistry buffs and scientists rejoice: Four new elements have been added to the periodic table, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has announced, completing the seventh row of the iconic chemistry chart. The new elements were discovered by teams of researchers in Japan, America, and Russia. All four elements are man-made radioactive superheavy elements with slightly longer lifetimes than previously discovered superheavy elements, leading to hope of eventually discovering "a so-called 'island of stability' where elements with longer half-lives will be found," according to RIKEN researchers, one of the teams who are credited with discovering one of the new elements.
Tesla Only Delivered 208 Model X Crossovers Last Quarter
But the company met its forecast of 50,000 vehicles delivered in 2015.
Tesla issued a statement on Sunday confirming that it had met its goal of delivering 50,000 vehicles in 2015. By year end on December 31, the electric car maker had delivered 50,580 Model S sedans and Model X sport utility vehicles. Those numbers included 17,400 vehicles shipped during the last quarter. While those numbers may make Tesla fans happy, auto industry analysts note that they come in at the low end of Tesla's revised November guidance of 50,000 to 52,000 vehicles shipped in 2015, which was already down from their February guidance of 55,000 delivered vehicles in calendar year 2015.
3-D Printing Brings Czech Cubism To Life In Gorgeous Geometric Dinnerware Set
Svetlana Koženová's collection for Czech home goods retailer Lauriger ushers Czech Cubism into the 21st century.
In the years between 1910 and 1925, Czech Cubism flourished in Prague. Czech architects, sculptors and furniture designers took the sharp points and folded planes of Cubist paintings by the likes of Picasso and Georges Braque and translated them into buildings and objects. Walk around Prague today and you can still see relics of the movement in the angular, origami-like facades of buildings Hodek Apartment House and the Kovarovic Villa.
Study: Shared Office Coffee Machines Are As Gross As You'd Think
Assuming you don't love rapid bacterial colonization.
If you work in an office and use the communal coffee maker, chances are you've had the following thought at some point or other: Who cleans that thing? Maybe you've even joked about it with colleagues, each person laughing with varying degrees of intensity that reflect their own personal level of germaphobia. The uncomfortable answer is: Hopefully someone!
January 3, 2016
Startup Afero Wants To Own The Net-Connected Gadget World
Apple, Google, and Microsoft vets have a plan to connect fitness bands, smart lights, online fridges, and other "Internet of Things" devices
Fitness bands, smart door locks, "learning" thermostats, connected refrigerators, smart TVs—they're all part of the Internet of Things (IoT). But bringing these gadgets online is very different from adding more PCs and smartphones, because there isn't a common technology to link these new devices, says Joe Britt, founder and CEO of Afero, a new company that wants to become the glue holding the IoT together. Derived from Esperanto, a failed approach at a universal language, the word "afero" has several meanings, including "thing" and "business."
January 1, 2016
This Year, VR Finally Comes of Age
Samsung's Gear VR and Google Cardboard were just the beginning of the revolution: Three major VR platforms hit the market in 2016.
There's one thing that inevitably happens whenever someone gets their first taste of virtual reality.
This Year, Make A Better Resolution Than Hitting The Gym
Throughout 2015, we talked to folks whose passions will make you raise the bar on what you set out to do this year.
It's the time of resolutions, including that one that is so often made and broken: to go to the gym. If you're like a lot of people, you probably avoid the gym for two reasons: You find it boring, and you're too focused on your career. So why not try an athletic activity that solves both problems at once?
Free App Friday: 5 Ways To Put Some Extra Money In Your Pocket
Get paid for shopping, pick up some freelance work, sell your stuff, and more.
The holidays are officially over, which means it's time to try to put some money back in your pocket after it spent the past couple months gushing out like Mentos in a Coke bottle. There's something for everyone here, depending upon how hard you're willing to work.
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