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Feb 13, 2015
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Earlier this week, during a disappointing Tesla earnings call, Elon Musk mentioned in passing that he’d be producing a stationary battery for powering the home in the next few months. It sounded like a throwaway side project from someone who’s never seen a side project he doesn’t like. But it’s a very smart move, and one that’s more central to Musk’s ambitions than it might seem.
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I’ve never been a fan of 11-inch computers: while they are certainly more compact and portable than their 13-inch counterparts, the compromises you have to make in terms of screen real-estate and keyboard comfort aren’t usually worth it. But a computer with a 13-inch display and the footprint of an 11-inch model? Count me in. That’s exactly what Dell’s promising with the XPS 13, and for the most part, it pulls it off. I’ve been using the touchscreen model (which is available for a steep $500 premium) for a few weeks, and I’m pretty sure that this is a look at the future of all laptops. But, sadly, only a look.
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Drake has always made Drake Music, a mixture of rapping and singing that completely shifted the kind of music that was acceptable for rappers to make. But after listening to Drake’s surprise new mixtape If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late you’ll notice this isn’t Drake Music in its most common form. Drake dropped Too Late the day before Valentine’s Day without a single love song, and it seems like that wasn’t an oversight. This is the closest thing we’ve gotten to a straight rap album from Drake, and the wait was worth it.
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The virtual environments are supposed to give kids the chance to explore places they'll never be, like prehistoric Earth or outer space. Frankly, they're terrible. They look like crude video games, and the informative captions don't do much to help. Photos are a different story. The draw of the original View-Master, for me, was that I was being offered a chance to see things that had actually happened: it was originally a complement to the World's Fair, after all, a gathering of all Earth's cultures into one place. There was a weird exoticism to a lot of the original View-Master reels — they were like having a relative with endless photos of landmarks you would never get to visit.
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If this were my first day at CP+, and if I’d been expecting any breaking news, I’d have had to agree with him. But I got all that out of the way yesterday — I took a lot of digital pictures of the camera world's new digital products, but I was struck by the lack of film presence even at a Japanese show. Today, I wanted to see what it’d be like covering the event with the technology that it’s abandoned. My goal was to take enough images for a photo essay and publish them on The Verge the same day, in the spirit of timely photojournalism.
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When I got into Christian Poincheval’s car last week, I half-expected it to smell like exotic fart. Poincheval, after all, is the 65-year-old Frenchman who made international headlines last year for developing a pill that claims to make flatulence smell pleasant.
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Despite its name, net neutrality is not a neutral concept. It has the positive goal of ensuring fairness and equitable treatment — both for users accessing the internet and for companies offering their services online. Net neutrality demands that all internet traffic, irrespective of its source, content, or destination, be treated equally. Internet.org is doing the exact opposite of that by setting up a dichotomy between the internet that is paid for and the free, Facebook-approved version.
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Apple Pay is less than a year old, but it's already coming to the federal government. Starting in September, you'll be able to use it to pay for some government services, including national parks, Apple CEO Tim Cook said today.
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Stepping into the auto industry would be a difficult move for Apple, which at this point doesn't have the manufacturing capabilities to back that up. Alternatively, it's possible that Apple is working on vehicle-related projects, such as self-driving technology, street-mapping equipment, or control systems to extend CarPlay.
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