The i3's two-cylinder engine is based on a motorcycle engine, in case you were wondering.
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When you buy a BMW i3 electric vehicle, you have the option to include a range-extending gas motor. The REx, as it's known in car-geek parlance, is a 34-horsepower, two-cylinder engine that provides juice to the battery to boost range from about 80 miles to somewhere around 150. But in certain conditions, engaging the REx can get...hairy, as one lawsuit alleges.
MLG Automotive Law filed a national class-action lawsuit against BMW's US arm over this REx. "[W]hen the gasoline engine kicks in, it doesn't produce enough power to prevent a dramatic decrease in the vehicle's performance," MLG wrote in a statement.
As our own editor Chris Paukert has experienced firsthand, it takes a special set of circumstances to create this decrease in power. Essentially, when you've got a heavy load (such as long uphill stretches or if the car's filled with passengers), the electric motor can't produce enough juice to keep the vehicle moving while the REx attempts to charge the battery. Thus, its net output is reduced to produce a net gain on charge, extending the vehicle's range.
The problem with this solution is that the car can cut its power at inopportune moments. So if it cuts off in the middle of a 70mph cruise, you could find yourself on a 55mph white-knuckle drive, surrounded by faster, bigger vehicles that are suddenly forced to pass you. For drivers not aware of this, it can come as quite the surprise. BMW did not immediately retu a request for comment.
While it may not act as a panacea, the simplest solution to this is to have dealers better educate customers before deciding on a REx-equipped i3. It might tu a few people off the prospect of i3 ownership, but it would likely prevent future lawsuits along these lines.
Autonomous Chevrolet Bolt EVs charge (get it?) into San Francisco
It's probably not a wise idea to "test" the system by stepping out in front of it on the street.
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When General Motors decided to bolster its autonomous-driving portfolio with the acquisition of Cruise Automation, along with its $500 million investment in ridesharing company Lyft, it was pretty easy to figure out where the company was headed. Now, on the streets of San Francisco, we're finally seeing the General's plans come to fruition.
This should have two benefits for the company. One, it's able to test its autonomous software on the streets of a busy city for later use in passenger vehicles. Two, it will prove the viability of ridesharing using autonomous vehicles. Both will ease congestion and reduce overall vehicle count in a city that could use it.
In fact, San Francisco itself admits that it has a traffic problem. A hefty majority of its Smart City Challenge project involves moving commuters to either autonomous public transportation or other methods of mobility, including ridesharing. And with investments in both autonomy and alteate methods of travel, GM looks poised to jump on that.
But GM isn't the only company getting in on this action. Uber is now testing autonomous vehicles on public roads, as well. Its first test car, a Ford Fusion Hybrid, is out and about on the mean streets of Pittsburgh.
NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), J. Bell (ASU), and M. Wolff (Space Science Institute)
Mars will make a close approach to Earth on May 30, coming within just 46.8 million miles (75.3 million kilometers). The Hubble Space Telescope celebrated the neaess a little early with the release of a fresh portrait of the Red Planet on Thursday. Hubble snapped the image on May 12 with Mars at a distance of 50 million miles (about 80.5 million kilometers).
The varied terrain of Mars in on full display in the shot. You can see craters, volcanic regions, basins and large swathes of sandy deposits. Wispy white clouds float in the planet's atmosphere, giving it an almost whimsical look, like a giant glass marble hovering against the darkness of space.
The side of Mars on display in the Hubble image has seen a lot of human-related activity. It contains the landing sites for Viking 1, Mars Pathfinder and the Opportunity rover. As Mars closes in on Earth, space watchers will be keeping an eye on the Red Planet. Even casual viewers can step outside at night and see the planet already looks brighter than usual.
"Marseille" is one of the few Netflix original TV shows set and produced in Europe.
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If you're not already a fan of British period dramas and Scandinavian noir thrillers, this may be the time to get on board.
On-demand video services including Amazon and Netflix may soon need to adhere to rules that dictate how much of their European catalogs must be occupied by European films and TV shows, according to the Daily Mail.
A European Commission proposal due to be announced next week will include an obligation for on-demand services to dedicate a 20 percent share of space in their offerings to homegrown content, said documents seen by the newspaper.
"While we cannot go into details [regarding possible quotas] at this stage, we can say that the proposal will notably strengthen the promotion of European works' obligations for on-demand services," a Commission spokeswoman said Friday in a statement.
Many European countries already have quotas regarding content made within the EU, but the lack of EU-level rules means there are massive variations between member states. Some countries may have up to 60 percent European films in their catalogs; others may have only 10 percent, according to the Commission. A move from the EU to put an inteational quota in place could be seen as an attempt to harmonize the rules, but overall its mission is to bolster the European film industry.
Under the proposal, EU member states would be able to demand financial contributions from streaming services to produce new European work, either by direct investment or by putting money into national funds.
Amazon and Netflix did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
TV broadcasters in Europe currently invest 20 percent of their tuover in European content production, whereas on-demand providers invest less than 1 percent. "The proposal will therefore aim at encouraging new investment in European works," the spokeswoman said. The result would be more access for Europeans to European works in catalogs, she added.
In a speech at Cannes Film Festival earlier this week, Commission Vice President Andrus Ansip hinted at coming changes that will impact on-demand streaming services in Europe and emphasized his commitment to expanding Europe's creative industries -- particularly the film industry.
One of his primary goals, he said, is "broadening its exposure and audience, particularly between EU countries." Ansip also wants to boost the circulation of European works and help European cinema reach a wider audience.
"It is time to update [the rules] to reflect new online realities and the changing digital world," he said. "This is also about creating a level playing field."
The Commission is expected to announce the proposal Wednesday, the Daily Mail reported, along with laws that restrict geoblocking, whereby Inteet users are shown different content depending on where they are viewing it from.
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Microsoft seeks to expand Minecraft's influence with the new deal.
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Microsoft and NetEase have signed a deal to bring the hugely popular video game Minecraft to China, the companies said Friday.
Microsoft, which owns Minecraft, signed a five-year exclusive agreement with NetEase, a China-based Inteet technology firm, to license Minecraft's mobile and PC editions. As part of the deal, Mojang, Minecraft's creator, will develop a version of Minecraft specifically made for the Chinese market.
Microsoft bought Mojang, a Sweden-based game studio, in 2014 for $2.5 billion.
There are more than 100 million registered players on Minecraft, a building game that's become a cultural phenomenon. Released in 2009, the game lets players create their own worlds and explore others, with no particular goals or missions. Bringing the game to one of the most-populous countries in the world could help the game expand its popularity even more.
No specific date was announced for when Minecraft will launch in China.
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I have no clever intro for this one. Honestly, any words I attempt to hamfist into coherent thoughts will not do the Aston Martin Vanquish Zagato Concept any justice. Simply put, it's an absolute stunner, a marvel of mode design that blends new and old. Nothing you or I create will ever be this beautiful, and it's best to just accept that fact.
Debuting this weekend at the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este at Lake Como, this is the fifth collaboration between the British supercar manufacturer and the famed Italian design studio. Several Zagato design staples are quite apparent -- mainly, the round taillights that also hark to the "bladed" look of the Aston Martin Vulcan's lights.
The body's new, as well. It's entirely carbon fiber, and massive panels help to cut down the number of visible seams along the body. The wing mirrors are reminiscent of the One-77, and the side strakes invoke the all-new DB11. The roof rocks the "double bubble" look, yet another Zagato hallmark.
If you think this is some non-functional concept that's heavy on the show and light on the go, you'd be dead wrong. The car's V-12 engine puts out some 592 horsepower. The interior is fully done up, as well, with herringbone carbon fiber, bronze and leather.
OK, that's enough words for now. They're only serving to prevent you from spending more time staring at this train-stoppingly gorgeous supercar.
The very first Google I/O conference didn't have the puffy white tents or long lines of this year's show, held at an outdoor concert venue in Mountain View, Califoia -- and it certainly didn't have attendees fretting about seagull droppings splatting down from overhead. We would know. We were there.
Marissa Mayer, then a Google VP, addresses the crowd at Google I/O 2008, its first developer conference.
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What the Google I/O of 2008 had was a lot of geeky developers who were interested in this shaky little brand-new phone thing called Android, plus a few joualists like us who wanted to know what Google would say. Google had held two previous single-day developer events, but this was its first full-blown conference.
And it was nerd heaven.
We filed into the smallest building of San Francisco's Moscone Center in a civilized way (nobody ran or pushed or made you feel like corralled cattle). Up on stage, Marissa Mayer, now Yahoo's CEO, then Google's vice president of search products and user experience, spoke about the wonders of split A/B testing.
But the highlight of the show, hands-down, was the very first prototype Android phone, that included -- get this -- technology called a touchscreen! Even that first prototype had a prominent Google search bar, which telegraphed the basic purpose of Android: drive the people who own the phones into using Google's services.
Back then, though, BlackBerry was still a commanding power, and phone owners were comfortable using a stylus, scroll wheels and hardware keyboards to navigate their phones. Apple's iPhone -- introduced just a year earlier, and still lacking an app store -- helped popularize the touchscreen, and Google's Android team was quick to join the trend.
This newbie Android prototype didn't even support multitouch actions like pinch to zoom. What it did have was 3G networking and a mere 128MB of memory -- though Google needed twice that to run Adobe Systems' Flash (a software feature Google tried to use early on to differentiate Android from the more established iPhone OS, later called iOS). 128MB is unbelievably small by today's memory standards. The recently released Samsung Galaxy S7 has about 30 times that amount.
Android's first app champions
Sessions were appropriately in-the-weeds geeky, and tough to translate for the regular consumer. But there was so much to lea and explore (not to mention 3,500 pounds of snacks such as gummy bears and M&Ms). CNET sat down on colorful bean bags in the quiet open space during and between other sessions to chat with the earliest Android programmers.
These were mostly individuals or small teams of people, not big-name brands, just enthusiastic programmers who had entered Google's contest to kickstart the Android app ecosystem at a time when the mobile world was just discovering how powerful and popular third-party apps could be.
The apps were simple by today's standards, with just two or three panes for finding a local music station, for instance. Developers wanted to make money, sure, but seemed more interested in exploring the possibilities of programming not just for a touchscreen, but also for a promising new ecosystem that could leverage Google's dominating ads and search.
Since those humble days, Google I/O has matured into a cooler, slicker version of itself. In 2012, its rockstar cofounder Sergey Brin narrated as skydivers wearing Google Glass converged on the keynote, and in 2016, evening entertainment pulls in chart-topping, clubber mainstays like Kygo and Charli XCX.
Jemaine Clement, left, and Bret McKenzie, otherwise known as Flight of the Conchords, entertained developers and press at the very first Google I/O.
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You know who entertained us at the very first Google I/O? Flight of the Conchords! And they were nerdily awesome.
Google I/O hasn't just grown. It's blown up, and that's clear at this show, with its laid-back music-festival vibe. 2,500 people attended the first two-day I/O; today, the three-day event is home to 7,000 developer attendees and Google live-streams it to millions on the Inteet.
Although it's grown more polished year after year, a change befitting Google's place at the top of the Inteet services food chain, the attitude on the ground is a little different than in past years when we crammed into Moscone, zinging off each other's energy with plenty of consumer devices to play with and brand-new Android features to demo.
In a way, this is a more developer-centric show that refocuses on technical sessions and coder's clinics. This is where software engineers tackle the important work that will create the apps that will hook into the exciting products Google announced, but isn't ready to show: VR headsets, Google's potentially industry-gobbling Home connected speaker, and more capable Android watches with standalone programs that don't need your phone.
Google I/O may have changed from a campfire to a circus, but its goal -- to get people to make things for Google's ever-expanding platform -- has not.
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A Taiwanese iPhone parts supplier has predicted that an upcoming variant of Apple's handset will feature glass casings.
Catcher Technology CEO Allen Hog made the prediction at a shareholder meeting on Thursday, the Nikkei Asian Review reports. Though Catcher currently builds metal frames for iPhones, Hog said he does not expect such a move to impact his business, since an iPhone with a glass casing would still need a durable metal frame inside it.
The iPhone 4 and 4S, introduced in 2010 and 2011 respectively, both had glass backings while retaining metal frames. Apple retued to using metal backs in the iPhone 5 in 2012.
Though Apple has not said when it will introduce its next iPhone models, an iPhone 7 (as it will presumably be called) should be due in September. Apple didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Xiaomi announced Friday that it will land in the quickly growing drone market by releasing its first quadcopter at an event next week.
The company spilled the news on its Miui blog with no details beyond two photos, one of a spider-like drone and the other of a toy bamboo-copter (the kind you spin in your hand to get it in the air). The only mention of a possible product name came in a closing tagline that said, "Shall we discover the world with Mi_________ ?"
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This is "Crowd Control: Heaven Makes a Killing," CNET's crowdsourced science fiction novel written and edited by readers around the world. New to the story? Click here to start. To read other past installments, visit our table of contents.
Chapter 8
Compiled by Escobar MacNamara, curator of the Museum of the Uninstallation, San Jose, State of Jefferson.
Earth EB-2, May 22, 2051
A thick haze hung to the north as Rebecca Danish stepped out of the front entrance of the Okhla Railway Station and looked back toward the sun setting behind New Delhi, lighting the hazy horizon on fire. She felt the bu of fatigue throughout her body as she steeled herself to work her way through a growing crowd at the intersection below. Just beyond the low buildings that surrounded the train station she could see the temple's massive lotus petals beckoning to her, offering serenity if she could only make it a few more blocks on her weakened legs.
It had been almost a month since the always reliable Mrs. Danish had walked out on her instructorship without any notice. There were rumors almost immediately that she had joined the underground of radical Uninstallers suspected of planning a coup against the ruling Transhumanist Party, but ironically she was scarcely aware that such a movement existed when she had decided to walk away from her career. She simply knew that somewhere in her body she felt tired. Even if her nanobiotics insisted otherwise, constantly ensuring that all her cells were functioning at top performance levels and preventing her from actually feeling that old sensation she once knew to be just plain tired, she still knew she was tired...on some sort of existential level.
The metropolis of the future as envisioned by "Crowd Control" contributor Julia Zimmerman.
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The first day she did not teach her class as scheduled, she also did not conce herself with lining up a competent substitute and loading all the required materials into the curriculum system. Instead, she made herself an appointment with a recommended independent technician to begin the process of having her nanobiotics fully uninstalled. The technician, who was known only by the handle "Alice" until the point when contracts had to be signed, required Rebecca to undergo a battery of psychological and physical assessments before even scheduling the main procedures.
The entire process was strangely unemotional for her. She had considered the implications for weeks. Her daughter Khloe had shut her out completely since she informed her of the decision, which was a tragic blow. Rebecca numbed herself to the thought that she could be losing the other member of her family forever. It was strange to force herself into a state of unfeeling, knowing that might be exactly what she needed to finally allow her body to feel the true weight of everything.
After receiving the green light as an ideal candidate for a full uninstall, Rebecca began taking a regimen of anti-nanobiotics -- not the kind prescribed by the nanobiotics corporations, but the real stuff that didn't leave any room for a potential reboot. One component of the drug cocktail attacked and broke down the organic cell walls of the nanobiotics that allowed them to float around the bloodstream and do their duties without being attacked by the body's natural defenses. Once exposed for the foreign intruders they were, another pharmaceutical component served to boost those natural defenses in order to conduct an all-out war on the nanobiotics across the circulatory system.
The effect was similar to fighting any other system-wide infection. It left the patient horribly depleted during the process and during recovery, which took at least two weeks. It was an ordeal the human body could not fully recover from and marked the beginning of a slow but steady decline to a long-deferred end.
Rebecca was unsure how long her body could hold out once it was finally given the permission to catch up to her soul, if there was such a thing. She had booked the flight to New Delhi for the day after the date the technician said she should be able to safely travel without a greatly increased risk of contracting some sort of fatal virus on the jouey or of her heart simply failing from having to deal, unassisted, with stress for the first time in years.
The huge old Baha'i Lotus Temple had been one of Charles' favorite places on Earth, along with any beach he ever visited with anyone he ever loved. He made a pilgrimage to the magnificent temple in the shape of a lotus flower several stories high whenever work brought him to the subcontinent. On his final trip through Asia, Rebecca had joined him and been struck by the peacefulness of the place. It had a spiritual feel to it that even she could not deny.
Sunset at the lotus temple
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Energized by the memory of her last visit, Rebecca hurried down the railway station steps, across two blocks of traffic congested with electric rickshaws, and through the gate into the temple grounds. She sat on an old concrete bench and gazed across well-manicured gardens and fountains at the remarkable structure set against the dramatic backdrop of the Indian sunset.
"Sometimes they just get things right, don't they?" She heard the words Charles had whispered in her ears the last time she had sat at this spot.
"Yes. Yes, they certainly do," Rebecca said out loud, drawing odd looks from a family passing by.
The nostalgic visit to the temple was merely a brief detour on this trip. She was postponing the rendezvous, uncertain this was the mission she truly wanted to dedicate her remaining time to.
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The process of getting to this point had been a little ridiculous. During one of her uninstallation sessions, she had begun to open up about the disillusionment that had led her to uninstall. The assistant tech had quickly shushed her, pointing to the office screen used for payments and communications, but one they all knew the govement (which had been controlled by the Transhumanist Party for the past decade) surely was able to access for surveillance, intelligence and other purposes.
After the session, the assistant tech secretly passed her a card with a number code and no explanation. Her attempts to decode the message yielded nothing until her next session, when the assistant tech greeted her with a handshake so firm it hurt.
"Did you find what you were looking for at the library?" The technician stared intently into Rebecca's eyes as he nearly crushed her fingers with his grip.
Rebecca understood immediately what the number code referenced. It was from the old Dewey decimal system used in hard-copy libraries that had been converted to archives decades ago.
"You can probably make it after your appointment today. The reference desk is open until 7." The assistant released her and went back to his work without another word.
The following day, Rebecca visited the state archive and handed the reference desk attendant the number code. The attendant looked at the code and then stared at Rebecca for a long, uncomfortable amount of time, clearly evaluating her face for deeper clues.
"Second row to the left. It doesn't leave the cage," the graying attendant said with a cough. He was not the kind of guy you would come across in any nanobiotics marketing campaigns.
She found the volume with an old, ink-printed label with the matching number code on its spine among the thousands of musty books contained within the chain-link room, itself inside a glass enclosure that allowed the collection to remain in permanent climate stasis. The title print on the spine was barely legible in faded gold lettering that had been partially rubbed off, but it seemed to read "Phonograph Repair and Tuning Manual."
A classic volume held the hidden key to uninstalling for good.
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Rebecca pulled the book off the dusty shelf and flipped through diagrams of ancient phonographs. She flipped to the table of contents and found mostly archaic jargon she was unfamiliar with. She checked the other end, the index. On a hunch, she went through all entries starting with the letter "N." Nothing familiar. She looked through the "U" words and stopped her finger on the word "Uninstalling." It had exactly one entry, on page 128.
Tuing to the page, Rebecca found a chapter that most certainly was not about repairing old record players. Instead, it was a lengthy manifesto expounding on the many ways Transhumanism leads to the breakdown of society and the eventual extermination of the human race.
At the end of the chapter was a series of coordinates that led her to another unlikely setting to find revolution brewing, a local antique vinyl record and compact disc store that also served as a meeting place for a covert group of uninstallers.
There, in a basement meeting room of Lawrence Wax and Lasers Ltd. the following evening, Rebecca was introduced to a series of odd people and ideas that all made a counterintuitive sort of sense to her, perhaps because of her weakened condition. Regardless of what made her so susceptible to their notions of reversal and revolution, she was stirred by the potential of the mission -- it felt like a purpose for the pain and constant fatigue she had felt since beginning the process of reverting to her body's natural systems.
Click the screenshot above to take a closer look at an outline of the book through this point that contributors used to organize the rough draft online.
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Her falling out with Khloe had left her with no remaining guiding light in her life, and she was ready to give the remainder of it, however brief it may be, over to a new cause. She wanted to make the maximum impact possible before going on to join Charles on that eteal beach she didn't believe in. But she still hoped she was wrong about that.
Just a few weeks later, her intentions apparently confirmed to the satisfaction of The Committee, as the revolutionary group called itself, she had boarded a jet for New Delhi to undergo her "messaging training."
"You're not worried about being late, Mrs. Danish?"
Rebecca was startled by the unexpected question from a man in a sharp vintage suit. He was clean-shaven and bald with a thick neck and muscular frame. He took a seat next to her and Rebecca shuffled her body slightly away from him, awkwardly leaving her seated only halfway on the bench.
"Oh, don't worry Rebecca, I'm with The Committee." The man placed his hand softly on her shoulder. "We've been keeping an eye on your movements and were a little disconcerted to see you heading so far south, in the opposite direction of the rendezvous point."
"It's a personal thing...Wait, you've been tracking me? That's a very un-Committee like thing to do. What happened to being completely off the grid? Isn't that why my training is halfway around the world? Who are you?"
"Call me Victrola for now."
He extended his hand toward her as he referred to himself using the code name Rebecca had been told to expect to hear upon her arrival. Rebecca relaxed as she shook his hand.
The Committee tracked Rebecca Danish's movements across the Indian subcontinent from orbit.
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"Weird, I imagined I'd be meeting a female trainer when they told me the name back home."
"Yes, well, that Victrola is waiting to greet you back at the rendezvous point that you rode a train past about an hour ago. Tell me, Rebecca, is there anything you need to tell me? Cold feet? It's normal, but I just need to know how you're feeling right now."
"I'm fine. Just tired. I thought I'd eaed this moment of peace after the insane jouey that brought me here. It was only a month ago that I was living indefinitely and without these aches and pains and the fatigue. It's a lot to adjust to, you know."
"Yes. Yes, I know. Now how about we catch the next train back toward Paharganj? The real Victrola is very interested to meet you."
"But how do I know I can trust you? If you're able to track me, it seems a lot more likely that you're with the govement than The Committee."
"Yes, well, The Committee is in more places than you might think, including govement surveillance. The way I see it, you may as well hope that I'm with The Committee, because whoever I am, I'm obviously able to track you. So how about just taking a train ride with me and hoping it has a happy ending?"
Rebecca recognized that he was right. Either he was who he said he was or she was already screwed.
"Fine. Just one second, I need to go pay my respects," Rebecca said as she stood and moved toward the temple.
Next time, a skeptical scientist arrives in the afterlife.
As investigators continue to search the Mediterranean for wreckage from a missing EqyptAir aircraft, the airline added dark banners to its Twitter and Facebook accounts to mou the flight and its victims.
Against a background of grey clouds on both social media sites is the flight number, MS804. The airline also switched its normal blue and white logo to one in black.
EgyptAir flight 804 disappeared early Thursday moing on a flight from Paris to Cairo. Shortly before disappearing from radar 180 miles north of the Egyptian coast, the Airbus A320 made erratic tus before "dropping like a rock," CBS News reports.
Though at least one Egyptian aviation official has named terrorism as a possible cause for the crash, that suspicion has not yet been confirmed by investigators.
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Edward Snowden has joined a growing group of privacy experts criticizing Google for not integrating end-to-end encryption as a default feature in its new Allo messaging app. In a tweet the NSA whistleblower called Allo "dangerous" and waed his followers against using it for now.
Allo has an incognito mode that promises end-to-end encryption through the popular Signal messaging protocol, but it has to be manually switched on for specific conversations. And to use Allo's Smart Reply feature, which allows the app to read your messages and suggest possible replies, you'll have to disable incognito mode completely.
Allo, which Google announced at the I/O developer conference this week, is Google's answer to messaging apps such as WhatsApp and comes with added personal-assistant features. WhatsApp also uses Signal for encryption, but Signal is baked into the app for all conversations from the start.
Google didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Google has shown off all its new surprises at its I/O developer conference this week and we've been all over it like a pervasive rash. This week on the CNET UK podcast, Andy Hoyle and Luke Westaway discuss the new things you can expect from Android N, Google's fancy new Daydream VR system and whether or not your next smartwatch will be any good.
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The Skross World Adapter has dual USB ports and features plug standards for Australia, Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States.
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It's no secret that Yahoo has been on the hunt for a buyer for some time now. Companies and individuals as diverse as the UK's Daily Mail and US billion Warren Buffet have all been mooted as potential purchasers.
Verizon is the current favourite, but the US-based communications carrier might pay just $2 billion to $3 billion if it ends up sealing the deal. According to the Wall Street Joual, "people familiar with the matter" suggest that previous valuations of between $4 billion and $8 billion are now unlikely.
Bidders have reportedly lowered the potential price after a series of sale presentations by Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer at the company headquarters.
The first week of June is the deadline for the first round of bids. Yahoo was contacted for comment but had not replied at the time of publication.
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eBay is imagining a future where we shop in VR, and it wants you to put on your "shoptacles" and start buying.
The granddaddy of e-commerce is jumping on the virtual reality bandwagon with the launch of what it claims is the "world's first" VR shopping app.
eBay has partnered with Australian department store Myer for the launch, offering 12,500 products that shoppers can browse through, select and add to their cart just by moving their head.
And to get Australians shopping in this virtual world, eBay is giving away 20,000 free Google Cardboard-style headsets, which its dubs "Shoptacles." I checked this name with the eBay team three times and, yes, they're sticking with it.
While Oculus, HTC and Sony are all rushing into the VR space with the launch of highly-spec'd headsets for gaming and entertainment, eBay is piggy-backing off Google's low-cost Cardboard headsets to commoditise VR and bring it to the masses.
Take a trip to the department store, with a firm grasp on your "shoptacles."
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Inside the virtual eBay store, you'll see products ranging from clothing and cosmetics to appliances and electronics, all floating around in three-dimensional clouds in front of your eyes. Look at one of the products and it will bring up the listing, with the option for you to add it to your cart with a glance. Roughly 120 products have also been shot and rendered in 3D so you can get a full 360-degree view while you shop.
You'll still need to pick up your mobile to make the final transaction, but eBay says it is just starting to scratch the surface of what can be done.
"We believe the next channel for retail will be virtual," said Steve Brennen, eBay's senior director of marketing and retail innovation.
"We don't build gimmicks...If retailers in the future are going to have an omni-channel strategy, it will include retailing a virtual world."
eBay is technically calling the launch a trial, saying it will track uptake of the 20,000 "shoptacles" and how customers use the interface (interested customers will also be able to download the app to play through any standard VR headset).
But it's already got its eyes set on analytics like browsing data, dwell times and how the app can be personalised to show different results for different users, features which it says are "more credible" when gleaned from VR.
"We want to get it into customers' hands and see how they respond, and then we want to adapt and take it to the next level," said Brennen. "We're pretty clear it's a glimpse...but we're saying you can now start to see where the virtual shopping world will play out in the next couple of years."
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Samsung will partner with Alibaba's financial affiliate on mobile payments as the world's biggest phone maker looks to expand its presence in China.
The partnership will allow Samsung Pay, the electronics giant's mobile payment system, to work with Alipay, the payments affiliate of Alibaba, China's biggest e-commerce company, Samsung said in a statement late Thursday. Alipay has more than 450 million registered users in China, the company said.
The new partnership could give Samsung an opportunity to boost its sales in the massive Chinese market, where it's struggled to grow despite big ambitions there. Mobile has become a huge focus for Alibaba during the past couple of years, as more of its users are drawn to searching for products and making payments on their phones.
The partnership is expected to expand the reach of Samsung Pay, which has been available in China since March under a partnership with China UnionPay, the bank that dominates the interbank payment business in China. Apple Pay, the rival mobile-payments service from the iPhone maker, debuted in China a month earlier.
The partnership comes on the heels of Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial Services Group, which operates Alipay, closing a $4.5 billion funding round last month.
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If you're the kind of person who pays attention to devices in movies, you might have noticed that the phones and tablets in Marvel's "Captain America: Civil War" all belonged to a brand called Vivo.
Vivo is not some fictitious brand created by the Marvel writers. It's actually some canny product placement by a Chinese smartphone maker that has been around since 2009. In fact, it just overtook fellow countryman Xiaomi as the world's fifth largest smartphone vendor, according to IDC Research's latest report.
While still relatively unknown outside China, Vivo has become a mainstay of the Chinese smartphone landscape since it first opened its doors seven years ago. While Xiaomi and Huawei made their names by initially offering budget and midrange devices, Vivo has always focused on the high end market.
Vivo phones pack some serious tech, too. The Xplay 5 Elite, one of the company's latest smartphones (sadly only available in China), is a curved-screened monster, housing 6GB of RAM, a QHD 2,560x1,440-pixel resolution 5.4-inch screen and the same Snapdragon 820 processor that powers the Samsung Galaxy S7.
The company's first flagship smartphone, 2012's X1, was Vivo's first attempt to entice users away from Apple's iPhones and Samsung's Galaxy devices. Priced at a princely $400 (around AU$550, £275, converted) when Xiaomi and Huawei were targeting the sub-$300 market, the X1 was the world's thinnest phone at the time of its release, coming in at only 6.65 mm (0.25 inches) thick -- thinner than an iPhone 6S.
But despite the good Vivo did in making these devices, it made the mistake of focusing exclusively on the saturated premium market in China, not looking to other price segments and other nations. It also stubboly stuck to more traditional brick and mortar sales channels, losing out on much of the early e-commerce boom.
As a result, it was leapfrogged by Xiaomi and Huawei, who each offered a broader range of devices. Xiaomi was particularly successful at selling its Mi phones online, utilising flash sales to great effect.
Fast forward to 2016 though, and the obscure Chinese smartphone maker is now one of the world's largest.
"Vivo has recently started expanding more aggressively outside of China," says IDC analyst Kiranjeet Kaur, adding that many Chinese brands are doing the same due to China's slowing smartphone market.
The company is mainly targeting India, the world's fastest growing market, where it's the lead sponsor for the popular Indian Premier League cricket touament. And, leaing from past mistakes, Vivo now offers products for as low as the $120 Y21.
But Vivo isn't giving up on China, or its premium smartphones. It's lucky, then, that the wealth of China's middle class is rising. In 2013, the average selling price of a smartphone was $207, but by 2015 that number had jumped to $257, according to IDC.
While Samsung and Apple constantly hold the top two positions, Chinese brands like Huawei, Xiaomi, Lenovo and Oppo, have often filled up the rest of the top 10. Vivo has now staked its claim as another top brand, and one you could be seeing a lot more of in the future.
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But not on social media; this time the hip hop star waxed poetic on Ellen DeGeneres' talk show.
During an eight-minute-long interview that aired Thursday, West kept it 100, talking about his occasional bizarre antics, including asking Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for $1 billion on Twitter in February after saying he was $53 million in debt.
This led to a GoFundMe campaign that raised some $8,000. West declined the money, which went to Notes for Notes, a nonprofit which builds, equips and staffs after-school recording studios in several major cities.
West admitted to DeGeneres that he probably should have asked Zuckerberg for the money on Facebook instead of on a rival social network. "Now I understand why he didn't hit me back...he doesn't use Twitter," he said.
"I have had dinner with him, and his wife told him about how I wanted to help the world, and he said he'd help me," West continued. "I feel that if I had more resources, I could help more people. I have ideas that can make the human race existence within our 100 years better. Period."
West also told the talk show host that he doesn't need anyone to pre-approve his tweets and he doesn't think twice about them.
"What's the point in thinking?" he said, grinning.
Oh, that was just the beginning. West went on to talk about President Barack Obama, his family, Michael Jackson, Steve Jobs and Pablo Picasso.
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