: On many all-wheel-drive cars, most of the time only the front wheels are powering the vehicle, or rear wheels if it’s based on a rear-drive model. AWD only kicks in when it’s called for, or a fraction of a second just after. This helps fuel economy. Most of the time, all-wheel-drive means front-wheel-drive plus an extra 100 to 250 pounds of weight. Even on a snowy or icy road, all-wheel-drive may remain disengaged most of the time. The trick is how quickly the car senses it needs torque (power) at the undriven end and then begins to deliver it. Those fractions of a second can be unnerving if you’re trying to start up on a hill or gain traction on an icy surface.
to bring that to market in a consumer phone. Breaking through the power bottleneck One of the biggest remaining issues for Google or anyone else looking to build a mobile solution for AR, VR, or vision-intensive applications is power consumption. GPUs are much better than CPUs at chewing through the computations required, but usually at the expense of consuming great amounts of power. So, for now, custom silicon looks to be part of the solution. Google has already announced that it will be partnering with startup Movidius to incorporate its in future phones. So it would make perfect sense that Google would also use those chips in a VR headset — although so far both companies aren’t willing to comment publicly on the speculation.
is completing its media days and charity benefit events, then runs nine public days, through Sunday, Feb. 21, at McCormick Place. It is the nation’s largest auto show measured in display space, more than 1 million square feet, or 7-8 Home Depots. The Detroit show envies Chicago’s great facility; Chicago envies Detroit’s new model lineup. Journalists don’t like the weather in either place, but Chicago has more blues joints if you do get stuck until the airports re-open. Here are five vehicles of note from Chicago 2016. Nissan Armada range-tops Nissan’s SUV makeover The 2017 Nissan Armada is made more sensible by $1.50 gasoline.
on January 21, 2016 at 4:12 pm Mandatory HTTPS and less tracking? Good. Brave is designed to block so-called “programmatic advertising,” or ads purchased by digital networks, as opposed to deals and content negotiated by humans. In theory, programmatic ad buying increases efficiency and improves results, since the ads are now purchased and bid on by machines with incredibly sophisticated algorithms rather than by fragile meatbags. In practice, , these systems are easily exploited and are sometimes used to distribute malicious code. Brave: Less a block and more a substitution Here’s the catch with Brave, though. While Brave’s marketing makes much of blocking malicious advertising, it doesn’t prevent ads from being shown — it just changes what you see.
modems. Sync Connect offers the essentials. More coming later. “The [Sync Connect] technology helps you seamlessly integrate your vehicle into your lifestyle. Get locked out? Cold outside? Forget where you parked? No problem. Just use your smartphone,” says Don Butler, executive director, Ford Connected Vehicle and Services and a former executive with GM and with Microsoft telematics spinoff Inrix. The features Ford is implementing initially are the core of what users want, particularly remote unlock and remote start, along with automatic crash notification. Other automakers offer telematics for a monthly fee of $20-$30, with the higher price service including live operator assistance for automated destination downloads to the car’s navigation system.
on October 23, 2015 at 11:00 am Zac Vawter climbs some stairs for science. There are two basic types of interaction between the brain and a machine: info in, and info out. Info in generally takes the form of an augmented or artificial sensory organ sending its signals directly into the nervous system, like a cochlear or ocular implant. Info out, for instance controlling a bionic arm or a mouse pointer with pure thought, involves reading signals in the nervous system and ferrying them out to a computer system. The most advanced devices, like sensing bionic limbs, incorporate paths running in both directions.
“Our quest on Mars has been to ‘follow the water,’ in our search for life in the universe, and now we have convincing science that validates what we’ve long suspected,” said John Grunsfeld, astronaut and associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington, in a . “This is a significant development, as it appears to confirm that water — albeit briny — is flowing today on the surface of Mars.
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Share This article Microsoft has released of its Windows 10 Insider Preview Edition, to what used to be called beta testers in the Fast Ring. Those who opt to remain in the Slow Ring won’t see it yet, as they’re supposed to see less frequent, but more stable, preview releases. But the last Slow Ring build I installed () was so unstable for me, I moved to the fast ring and installed 10080. That solved a few issues, but introduced some unfortunate new ones, including the need to uninstall the graphics card driver once or twice a day to
