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Sponsored Links AP Photo/Kin Cheung China’s competitor to GPS is nearly finished after years of work. Project lead Ren Chengqi has revealed that the Beidou Navigation Satellite System’s core was completed earlier in December, and that the last two satellites should reach orbit “before 2020.” This will technically be the third phase of Baidou, which…
Sponsored Links Mustafa Ciftci/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Intel’s 10th-generation Core desktop processors appear to be right around the corner, and the biggest improvements may come to those who don’t splurge on the most expensive models. Leaks at Informatica Cero and VideoCardz have detailed a Comet Lake-S CPU lineup where every Core chip, from the i3 to…
Sponsored Links Rasid Necati Aslim/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Turkey has long been partly dependent on foreign automakers, but it’s about to claim independence in a big way. TOGG, a consortium of Turkish companies, has unveiled an electric crossover SUV as the country’s first fully homegrown car (outside of help from Italian design firm Pininfarina,…
Need some rock-solid reading to make it through Christmas? Look no further! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone! It’s that day when the majority of things in many countries are closed, it’s freezing cold (or blazing hot, depending on where on the planet you’re at), and festivities will eventually wind down to the…
Sponsored Links Snap Snapchat’s Bitmoji will soon have a role to play beyond the usual stickers, games and Stories. Snap has previewed a Bitmoji TV series for Discover that will feature the avatars of you and your friends in the leading roles. There will be a steady stream of hijinks, including secret agent missions, becoming…
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I was one of those kids who always had a book at the table or on a road trip, and although I’m now too polite to read over dinner with people, I’m still an avid reader. I try to read books from a wide range of authors, genres, and time periods. For a few years now,…
Sponsored Links kaptnali via Getty Images For the last After Math of both the year and the decade, we’re talking cars and trucks! Proposed CO2 capture system could reduce truck emissions by 90 percent The EPFL released a study this week pitching a novel method of drastically reducing the amount of CO2 heavy trucks produce:…
Sponsored Links nrqemi via Getty Images Electric vehicles have been helping Americans get around for more than a hundred years. At the start of the 20th century, a third of the vehicles on the road were battery powered. Ferdinand Porsche, founder of the sports car company that still bears his name, was among the first…
For billions of years the planet had been devoid of anything that might be considered complex life. But then the machines arrived. At first they didn’t stay. Either scooting past the outer atmosphere without entering orbit, or careening to the surface to a thoroughly destructive end. But pretty quickly they began…