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NASA Engineer Hired to Direct Uber Elevate VTOL Project
We reported four months ago of Uber’s plans to develop Uber Elevate, a fleet of Vertical Take-Off and Landing or VTOL taxis sometime in the future, but it looks like that future is going to arrive earlier than expected. Uber has just hired NASA engineer Mark Moore as Director of…
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Legendary Apple Engineer Rejected for Genius Bar Job
A computer engineer who, during his 21 years at Apple, persuaded Steve Jobs to migrate the Mac computer from PowerPC processors to Intel chips, had his application for a job at the Genius Bar in an Apple store rejected. JK Scheinberg retired eight years ago, but wanted to return to…
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Engineer Builds Working Thor’s Hammer
You can’t beat a good practical joke, and this one is certainly one of my favourites. An engineer has built a working thor’s hammer, but of course, it’s not really as magical (sorry) as the one from the comics/movies. The legendary hammer Mjolnir is known to only be wielded by…
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Uber Accquires Bing Mapping Assets and 100 Engineers from Microsoft
Car-hailing firm Uber is making big strides into the mapping market, acquiring mapping data as well as about 100 image-collection engineers from Microsoft. Uber has been looking to making their mobile app better, mainly in the area of better maps to bring drivers and riders together. While companies transferring data…
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Internet Outrage at Barbie ‘Computer Engineer’ Book
A children’s book centred around Barbie becoming a ‘computer engineer’ has faced allegations of sexism from hordes of internet users. “I Can Be a Computer Engineer” has since been pulled from sale on Amazon after it contents went viral on the web. The book features Barbie in the process of building…
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Facebook’s Outage Scares Everyone… Again!
Millions of users have noticed today that around 12 pm Eastern Time, the social media giant, Facebook, went down for about 30 minutes. This is not the first time the website and its services are unavailable, having the social media giant experiencing similar issues just over a month ago. Mashable…
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Experts Find ‘Backdoor’ in iOS Functions that Allows Personal Data Monitoring
A forensic scientists warned people about the fact that Apple has undocumented functions in its iOS operating system which allows people to wirelessly connect and extract pictures, text messages and other sensitive data, without the need of either a password or PIN. iOS jailbreaker and forensic expert, Jonathan Zdziarski, has…
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Forget the T-800, MIT and Google’s Boston Dynamics Are Said To Work on T-1000 Robots
There have been talk of future robots resembling the T-800 model from the Terminator series for some time now. Yet, no company has even arrived close to a design, yet alone a prototype of such a robot. While we won’t see any T-800’s running around anytime soon, we might see…
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Hackers Can Get Your Wi-Fi Password By Simply Hacking Your Smart Lightbulbs
Though everyone wants to bring a variety of ‘Internet of things’ products on the market, from microwaves, to refrigerators, and even light bulbs, not everyone thinks about the bad side of all this. This means that, despite everything linking to your local area network, not everything connected is currently secure.…
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Ford Working With Intel on Bringing Face and Gesture Recognition Technology to Cars
Automaker Ford and chip maker Intel apparently have started looking into how people can interact with their gadgets even more. With smart watches and virtual reality already on the way, the two manufacturers apparently are looking into making their own innovative technology, but for automobiles. “Project Mobii” is the name…
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Google Invents Self-Fixing Problems? Is This The Future?
After some of you experienced or at least saw what happened yesterday with some of Google’s Services, the company officials expressed their apologies and released a statement explaining what went wrong, which inevitably caused the outage yesterday. Ben Treynor, Google VP Engineer, posted a statement which points to a ‘bug’…
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