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Elon Musk’s Boring Company wants to tunnel under Las Vegas

sudshr47 March 7, 2019

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Chicago may be a no-go for The Boring Company’s high-speed underground tunnel system, but there’s always Las Vegas.

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority announced a plan this week to build an underground “Loop” tunnel at the Las Vegas Convention Center — yes, the home of the annual consumer tech show known as CES. More than 182,000 attendees were at the show last year, and they absolutely mobbed every train, taxi, and CES-provided shuttle. 

The proposed Loop is expected to cost anywhere from $35 to $55 million. The authority said the project would cost less than $10 million per mile, the same as the Boring Company’s test tunnel in Hawthorne, California. They said the Las Vegas tunnel could be completed in time for CES 2021. Read more…

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Ces CES 2019 Gadgets OrCam OrCam MyMe

OrCam’s MyMe uses facial recognition to remember everyone you meet

sudshr47 January 17, 2019

Meet the Orcam MyMe, a tiny device that you clip on your T-shirt to help you remember faces. The OrCam MyMe features a small smartphone-like camera and a proprietary facial-recognition algorithm so that you can associate names with faces. It can be a useful device at business conferences, or to learn more about how you […]

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Here’s what you need to know from Day 3 of CES 2019

sudshr47 January 10, 2019

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Twitter showed up at CES and had plenty of news to share. However, on this Day 3 of CES, one of the more interesting stories is just who didn’t show up. 

Let’s take a look at everything important that went down Wednesday at CES.

Twitter’s tells us what’s happening

Twitter had more than a few announcements to make at CES. One update could very well change how people use the microblogging platform altogether. 

Another one: status updates and presence indicators (so you could see when someone is online or typing) pic.twitter.com/640x1tLo8J

— Karissa Bell (@karissabe) January 9, 2019

In the coming weeks, Twitter will start publicly testing new features such as statuses and presence indicators. These new features will allow users to set their availability so others know when they are on Twitter and actually indicate when someone is online and typing. Read more…

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Ces CES 2019 Robots Sex And Relationships Tech

I went on a date with a CES robot. He was nice.

sudshr47 January 10, 2019

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Relationships in the modern world can be tough. So, at CES this year, I decided to skip the messy hassle of apps and humanity altogether to instead date the tech itself.

Enter Temi, advertised at the world’s largest consumer tech convention as a “personal robot” who was ready to mingle through private, hands-on demos. Sounded intimate — though I did have reservations about a partner seeing so many other people at the same time. 

But who am I kidding? Hinge and Tinder dates probably do the same thing and are just less honest about it anyway.

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Ces CES 2019 Hulu Media

Hulu redesign will drop the confusing home screen called ‘Lineup,’ simplify navigation

sudshr47 January 10, 2019

Hulu is preparing to update its streaming app in order to make its simpler to navigate to and discover content you want to watch. Some of the changes coming in the weeks ahead are smaller, but worthwhile tweaks – like adding buttons or re-arranging where menus sit. But the more notable change is that Hulu […]

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A self-driving delivery car brought me a burger at CES

sudshr47 January 10, 2019

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Burgers and fries delivered by robo-car. 

Stranger things have happened in Las Vegas. At the CES tech show this year, a car from AutoX showed off its autonomous driving skills by delivering burgers to the convention center. 

The San Jose, California-based company started out delivering groceries with cars equipped with backseats modified to keep produce fresh and unharmed. Later, it partnered with select restaurants in Silicon Valley. 

For CES this year, the delivery service found a nearby Applebee’s and sent out its test cars with a livefeed to show on the convention floor how the delivery process was going. After the car picked up the food about 2 miles away, some other reporters, VIPs, and I were able to chow down on slightly sweaty burgers and fries. (It was still delivery, after all — it can’t compete with food at a restaurant. It must have looked delicious though, because someone at the convention center stopped to ask me where I got it from.) Read more…

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Ces CES 2019 Europe Gadgets Ledger Ledger Nano X Ledger Wallet

Hands-on with Ledger’s Bluetooth crypto hardware wallet

sudshr47 January 10, 2019

French startup Ledger unveiled a new hardware wallet at CES this week. While the device isn’t going to ship until March, the company let me play with a prototype version of the device. The Ledger Nano X feels just like using the Nano S, but on mobile. When the company’s previous hardware wallet first came […]

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