Motor Trend: The Chevy Bolt makes most other electric cars 'utterly irrelevant' and other top stories.

• Motor Trend: The Chevy Bolt makes most other electric cars 'utterly irrelevant'

  

  Chevrolet While we wait for Tesla's mass-market Model 3 to arrive sometime in late 2017, we can start to mull over the Chevy Bolt — a 238-mile-range electric vehicle, stickering for $29,995 after credits — that's heading to dealerships in California and Oregon before 2016 is in the record books. Motor Trend took things a step further recently and conducted a head-to-head comparison between the Model 3 and the Tesla Model S 60, at $66,000 the cheapest Tesla one can currentl..

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• I have lived the USB-C #donglelife. Here's what you're in for

  

  There has been more talk of dongles now that Apple has gone and done it: excised all ports on the new MacBook Pros except one: USB-C. It is good and right to be unhappy that there aren’t any standard USB-A ports, MagSafe, nor SD card slots on these new MacBook Pros. If that gives you serious pause, I am with you and don’t have any easy answers beyond “buy the dongles and deal with them.” Lucky for you, yesterday Apple relented a bit and slashed the prices on many of its adapters. I have been u..

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• Apple's Patent Hints At Foldable, Bendable iPhones In The Future

  

  Apple could be experimenting with iPhone's core design, overhauling it in a way it has never been overhauled before. As a result of patent filings and supplier leaks surfacing over the last few months, including an earlier patent by Apple which demonstrated the concept of bendable phones, Apple could soon introduce a version of the iPhone with a flexible screen. Apple has recently been awarded patent no. 9,485,862 titled "Electronic devices with carbon nanotube printed circuits," which by Paten..

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• Elon Musk says SpaceX finally knows what caused the latest rocket failure

  

  SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says that his company has finally gotten to the bottom of the September 1st Falcon 9 explosion — claiming it was the “toughest puzzle” they’ve ever had to solve. And now that the problem is known, he expects SpaceX to return to flight in mid-December. Speaking on CNBC yesterday, Musk said “it basically involves liquid helium, advanced carbon fiber composites, and solid oxygen. Oxygen so cold that it actually enters solid phase.” “Oxygen so cold that it actually enters solid..

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• 'Starcraft II' Gameplay, Features & Update: Blizzard Uses Google's DeepMind To Train Artificial Intelligence

  

  Blizzard collaborates with Google and uses DeepMind platform to train Artificial Intelligence in "Starcraft II."(Photo: DeepMind/Youtube) Blizzard announced on BlizzCon that it would use "Starcraft II" to train artificial intelligence. This will be done in collaboration with Google's DeepMind Technologies Limited, which it has acquired in 2014. DeepMind is a British company with expertise in Artificial Intelligence. According to Fortune, Blizzard announced that it would release tools with ..

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• Galaxy S8 to come with AI features

  

  Posted : 2016-11-06 09:03 Updated : 2016-11-06 18:27   Galaxy S8 to come with AI features Samsung Electronics Vice President Rhee In-jong, right, introduces the firm's artificial intelligence (AI) vision with Viv Labs CEO Dag Kittlaus, center, and its CTO Adam Cheyer, at the Samsung headquarters in southern Seoul, Friday. / Korea Times photo by Lee Min-hyungBy Lee Min-hyungSamsung Electronics' upcoming flagship handset, the Galaxy S8, will be equipped with artificial intelligence (A..

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• Samsung to launch AI digital assistant service for Galaxy S8

  

  SEOUL Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Sunday it would launch an artificial intelligence digital assistant service for its upcoming Galaxy S8 smartphone, seeking to rebound from the Galaxy Note 7's collapse and differentiate its devices. The world's top smartphone maker in October announced the acquisition of Viv Labs Inc, a firm run by a co-creator of Apple Inc's Siri voice assistant program. Samsung plans to integrate the San Jose-based company's AI platform, called Viv, into the Galaxy sm..

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