Tesla’s recent acquisition of Solar City mean the automaker’s retail stores are about to get a makeover. Tesla is perhaps best known for its electric cars, but the company has another prominent business as well. Its Tesla Energy division markets stationary lithium-ion battery packs for energy storage. Energy-storage systems can increase the utility of home solar arrays, […]
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Apple Exploring Options For Expanding US Manufacturing
NEW YORK — An iPhone “Designed in California” and made in the USA? It could happen soon. Apple asked Asian-based manufacturers Foxconn and Pegatron in June to explore the possibility of manufacturing the popular smartphone in the U.S., according to a report in financial magazine Nikkei Asian Review, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter. Foxconn agreed to look […]
Elon Musk says ‘Robots will take your jobs, force government will have to pay you’
Computers, intelligent machines, and robots seem like the workforce of the future. And as more and more jobs are replaced by technology, people will have less work to do and ultimately will be sustained by payments from the government, predicts Elon Musk , the iconic Silicon Valley futurist who is the founder and CEO of […]
Samsung Stained Again: Company Issues Top Loading Washer Recall
U.S. product-safety officials announced a recall affecting 2.8 million Samsung Electronics Co. washing machines, in another stain on the company’s reputation already following the botched Galaxy Note 7 phone recall. The Consumer Product Safety Commission said the tops can detach during use. The company has received more than 700 reports of incidents and nine reports of injuries […]
Tesla Unveils Next Step In Green Energy
Hold onto your butts solar aficionados, the next generation solar roof is coming, and it looks good. During a brief event Friday night, Elon Musk presented his plan to integrate solar roofs with Powerwall power packs. But that’s not all. On Saturday Musk expanded on his talk by explaining via Twitter that the new solar […]
Millions Of Taxpayer Dollars Spent On Police Buying Phone Records From AT&T
The company charged more than a million dollars in some cases for access to a database of phone records stretching back to 2008. Typically, for law enforcement agencies to obtain your phone records, they would need to first obtain a warrant from a judge. Warrants can be difficult to obtain and must be specifically focused […]
Ford Recalls Over 500,000 Vehicles Due To Safety Concerns
Vehicles are not supposed to leak fuel or oil. Still, several models of Ford vehicles apparently include those issues, leading the carmaker to announce three recalls covering nearly 500,000 vehicles. Ford on Wednesday released yet another batch of recalls for unrelated issues in several models of its cars. The first recall covers approximately 8,026 model year […]
Numbers Climbing In Samsung Class-Action Lawsuit
Consumers angry over South Korean company’s handling of scandal and now demand compensation for the inconvenience The number of Samsung Galaxy Note 7 owners demanding compensation for the smartphone’s troubles is starting to rise. In what may be the first Note 7 related class-action lawsuit filed in South Korea, 527 smartphone buyers are demanding Samsung […]
Major Brake Defect Leads to Honda Recall
Honda is recalling 350,083 of its new 2016 Civics because the electric parking brake may not engage when the engine is turned off, leading to the possibility that the car could roll away and crash. It’s not uncommon for new models to be recalled, but the pullback doesn’t help the redesigned Civic, which has been […]
Nasa makes entire research library open to public
NASA is opening up its research library to the public in the newly launched web database PubSpace…and it’s absolutely free. NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan believes that this move will benefit fellow scientists and engineers and accelerate innovation. “Making our research data easier to access will greatly magnify the impact of our research,” she said. […]
Sprint To Give 1 Million Low-Income Students Free Devices & Data
The Internet is a blessing to many a school-aged kid trying to get through the night’s homework assignment, but what if your home has no Internet access? It happens all too often in poorer neighborhoods, but Sprint’s new initiative will provide 1 million high school students with free devices and wireless connections. The 1Million Project […]
Protect yourself from latest iPhone hack
It lets people send messages from your phone – even when it’s locked. You might have already heard about this annoying new iPhone hack: it allows people to send messages, make calls and post Facebook updates from your phone – even when it’s locked. Pranksters are using Siri to do it. They summon the voice […]