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Google Engineer Dismissed the Importance of Stolen Self-Driving Car Documents
Photo: AP Google’s self-driving car company Waymo sued Uber in February, claiming that Anthony Levandowski, a former Waymo engineer, stole 14,000 documents detailing Waymo’s lidar systems before accepting a job with Uber’s self-driving car program. But emails between a hardware engineer at Google and Google’s attorneys made public today show that the files downloaded by…
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Here’s the Destructive Path Hurricane Irma Is Carving Through the Caribbean Towards Florida [Updating]
Photo: National Hurricane Center Antigua and Barbuda According to the New York Times, Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne initially said the islands had braved the storm with significantly less damage than expected, and “I dare to say that no other country in the Caribbean would have been as well prepared as we were.”…
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After Grueling CEO Search, Some Uber Staff Have Started a Positivity Campaign
A photograph from the website of Uber employees’ new positivity campaign. Credit: Good People + Good Things Employees at Uber, which has survived at long last a back-breaking search for a new CEO after its former chief Travis Kalanick resigned earlier this year, are trying to raise other staffers’ spirits with a positive newsletter. According…
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Catalonia votes for afscheidingsreferendum
MADRID – The parliament of the Spanish region of Catalonia on Wednesday agreed to hold a referendum on independence from Spain. The Spanish government was already to the highest judges of the land stepped on the referendum, on 1 October must be held. Earlier referendum Separatist politicians, organized three years ago an unofficial referendum on…
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Facebook discovered ‘Russian advertising’
SAN FRANCISCO – Accounts that are probably from Russia were maintained on Facebook, thousands of political ads distributed during the U.s. presidential election last year. Facebook has that Wednesday self published. The ads refer to 470 non-authentic accounts and pages that have now been removed. According to Facebook was translated for almost 84.000 euros to…
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’No victims on the island of Saba’
WILLEMSTAD – The hurricane Irma that Wednesday managed on the Windward islands of Saba no casualties. That said, the lieutenant-governor of Saba, Jonathan Johnson, opposite the Curacao radio station Dolphin FM. However, the roofs of some houses weggewaaid. “There is no power, but we are working on. The telephone traffic and internet traffic is quickly…
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Bionic lens: implant that will return the eye and gives “super powers”
Many fantastic works paint a picture of a future where bionic body parts measure man real. Sometimes it seems that such will come to our world soon, but this is not so. So, the canadian company Ocumetics Technology Corporation is currently conducting clinical trials of the device Bionic Lens that will be able to replace…
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In Moscow showed a new electro-Gazelle
On the issue of electric cars begin to think not only of major foreign companies and Russian producers. KAMAZ vengeance is testing electric buses and charging stations, the concern KRET have already began to produce their own fast charging stations, and the company VolgaBus have driverless shuttles on the motors. In the past year was…
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The Perlan glider set a new altitude record
Funded by the aerospace company Airbus Perlan, develops gliders designed to fly to the border of space. The developers reported about the new successful trials Panerai new altitude record which the aircraft was able to install. The first version of the Perlan glider took to the air in 2006 and was able to fly up…
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Review game Knack II
The management of Sony decided that to promote the new PlayStation 4 in 2013, the audience is vital to high-quality platformer. So was born the adventure game Knack, which, among other things, was to demonstrate the computing power of a modern at the time of iron due to the remarkable physical models and graphics in…