Driving

Tesla is going to provide its Roadster sports car with a new battery. This should ensure that the range is considerably larger: from almost 400 km to almost 650 km. Incidentally, this is not only due to a better battery, but also due to…

LG and Mercedes-Benz have signed a cooperation agreement on the supply of parts for autonomous driving cars. LG is going to develop a stereo camera system for the German automaker. The camera system is one of the central components of…

Spanish newspaper publishers want Google News to remain open in Spain. According to the publishers, Google News is too dominant to just disappear. Last week, Google announced the closure of its Spanish News branch, due to the…

G.Skill has announced a PCI-e SSD that could achieve sequential read speeds of up to 1900MB/s. The sequential write speeds of the Phoenix Blade SSDs are said to peak at 1050MB/s. The high speeds would be possible thanks to four…

The Khronos Group, responsible for the OpenGL standard, among other things, has announced OpenVX. The OpenVX 1.0 specification defines a standard for recognizing images, such as body movements.According to the Khronos Group, OpenVX offers…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced a new luxury Model D of the Tesla S. The new version features two electric motors for all-wheel drive, autopilot, faster acceleration and an extensive photo and radar system.The new version of the Tesla…

Minister Asscher of Social Affairs fears that the advancing use of robots that can take over more and more tasks will lead to the displacement of low-paid work and to a skewed income distribution. According to Asscher, the tax system must…

Facebook has made changes to the timeline that should make so-called 'click-baiting' more difficult. With this, the American company is taking a harder line against posts that only have the purpose of driving traffic to a site.The changes…

Google has acquired Gecko Design, a design company that has contributed to the One Laptop Per Child project, among other things. After the takeover, the employees will have to contribute to Google's Project X, which resulted in Google…

AMD has released a new beta Catalyst driver. There is only one download and it is only suitable for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. Support for Windows 8.0 has been discontinued with version 14.6 and AMD therefore recommends installing the…