If you haven’t started thinking about next year’s CES yet, Daimler AG has beat you to the punch. Not only will Mercedes Benz CEO Dr. Dieter Zetsche be delivering a keynote about autonomous vehicle tech and its greater impacts, but he’s going to debut a new concept vehicle too, according to the Consumer Electronics Association. Considering the the topic of his speech and the fact that Mercedes has been showing off a semi-truck with a pretty impressive auto-pilot system for the past year or so, it isn’t much of a stretch to guess this new ride will be at least semi-autonomous. Don’t want to miss his address? Set a calendar reminder for 8 p.m. Pacific, January 5th, 2015 at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas. Or, you know, you could always come back here where we’ll be covering the show from the ground. It’s up to you!
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Met Office, the UK’s weather forecast agency, has just launched a new division that monitors out-of-this-world weather conditions — literally. Thanks to a £4.6 ($7.5) million funding from the government, the agency built a Space Weather Center right out of its Exeter headquarters to keep a close eye on solar flares, coronal mass ejections (CME) and geomagnetic storms. Seeing as the UK’s National Risk Register lists space weather as the fourth most dangerous threat to the region’s infrastructures, it’s not so odd that the government will fund the center’s operations. After all, it’ll be in charge of issuing early warning signals, so the world can prepare for the the usual effects of solar storms, like GPS or radio signal interruption, satellite damage or even power grid outages and heightened radiation in worst case scenarios.
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Remember NuSTAR, the specialized space telescope NASA designed specifically to study black holes? It just found something much, much brighter. Astronomers at NASA have stumbled upon what appears to be the most luminous pulsar ever discovered, but they almost mistook it for a black hole. After measuring the dead star’s output, they found it was outputting as much energy as 10 million suns — shockingly powerful, considering how much smaller it is than our own star. Astronomers aren’t sure why the pulsar is so bright, but will continue to study in hopes of learning how common or uncommon this kind of pulsar is. The discovery kind of shakes up what theorist knew about black holes and ultraluminous x-rays, underlining how little we really know about the universe out there. Check out NASA’s gallery of images at the source link below.
You won’t see as many women as there are men when you walk down the halls of tech company HQs — not even eBay’s, which has one of the most diverse workplaces in the industry. In an effort to change that and promote gender diversity, Facebook, Box and Pinterest have launched a mentorship program called Women Entering and Staying in Tech or WEST, for short. It puts interns and up-and-coming professionals in several one-on-one and group meetings with women holding technical roles in the three companies over the course of a year. These meet-ups will happen both in person and online, but for now, the program will focus on engineering, operations, product, design and web development roles, in particular.
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Still clinging on to that beloved EVO 4G for dear life? You’re going to have to upgrade in the near future. Sprint has confirmed a recent Android Central leak revealing that it will shut down its WiMAX network on November 6th, 2015. If you haven’t made the switch to LTE-based devices on your personal account, you’ll get an official warning 180 days (i.e. about six months) before the older network goes offline for good. The date isn’t completely surprising — Sprint had previously hinted it would shutter the service next year — but it now gives you something to mark on your calendar.
Those sponsored stories on Snapchat were apparently just the beginning. At Vanity Fair‘s New Establishment Summit today, the ephemeral messaging app’s founder Evan Spiegel said that ads are en route “soon.” Those ads will be based around the Story section of the application that provides a platform for evaporating recaps of whatever you choose. “We’re cutting through the new technology around ads to the core of it, which is telling a story,” Spiegel (above) told moderator Katie Couric. Ads seem like a natural progression for any social network, so users shouldn’t exactly be surprised by this — after all, you gotta keep those ghosts employed somehow.
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There’s a lot to look forward to in Android’s next major update, but hardware nerds are focusing in one one key feature: official support for 64-bit mobile chips. It’s the mobile OS’ inevitable future, and chip-makers have been preparing for it for quite awhile. Now app developers can jump in, too: Google announced today that a x86 64-bit Android L developer preview emulator image is available for developers that want to take their apps to the next generation. Not every dev will need to rebuild, however — apps built in Java will automatically benefit from the 64-bit release’s increased accessibility to memory and registers. Choose another language? Well, you’ll need to recompile: head over to the source to start testing your apps in 64-bit.
Need a few more breadcrumbs to follow until Elon Musk “unveils the D” (and something else) tomorrow? During an interview tonight at Vanity Fair’s New Establishment Summit, Tesla’s CEO told Walter Isaacson a few juicy tidbits about his news, without really revealing anything — other than what we’ve already seen. According to Musk “One of the things is already there, and people just don’t realize it.” Also, some of the internet’s guesses (dual engine? autonomous driving? AWD?) are apparently on track, as he said people are “directionally correct,” but that they don’t “appreciate the magnitude.” You can watch a clip of of the interview embedded after the break and leave your own theories in the comments, we’ll be reporting live from the unveiling in LA tomorrow night to find out the truth.
Update: Need a little more fuel for the rumor mill? Electrek is claiming that tomorrow we’ll see a dual-motor equipped Tesla Model S P85D that might be capable of 0 – 60 MPH in under three seconds, acceleration that puts it in the range of Bugatti, Ferrari and the like. Magnitude, indeed.
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If you’re using iOS, you’d better not get too attached to your favorite unofficial game emulator — there’s a real chance that you won’t have an easy way to load it before long. The GBA4iOS team has noticed that the iOS 8.1 beta fixes a loophole that lets you install third-party emulators and other unapproved apps simply by rolling back the date on your device. This won’t prevent you from installing emulators if you’re willing to jailbreak, but you’ll have to give up the luxuries afforded by official support (such as timely OS updates) if you want to relive your gaming glory days on an iPhone.
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It’s true: HTC’s new action cam looks a lot like a periscope made of PVC pipe. That’s not all we have on deck though — read on for our news highlights from the last 24 hours, including Apple’s upcoming iPad event, a ping pong-playing robot and more!
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