Porsche unveils production version of its Taycan electric sports car

The Taycan (Pronounced Tai Khan) started as the concept Mission E four years ago at the Frankfurt Motor Show. Since then, Porsche has been doling out a steady stream of information, teaser images and videos of the vehicle's prowess. The Turbo S version of the four-door sports sedan has an impressive 750 horsepower while in…

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NVIDIA’s Quadro RTX 6000 should be the most powerful laptop GPU ever

NVIDIA has promised video editing, 3D rendering and graphics performance nearly on par with the full desktop-sized $4,000 Quadro RTX 6000 card. We don't yet know the specs on the laptop version, but the desktop RTX 6000 has 4,608 CUDA, 576 Tensor and 72 RT cores, compared to 4,352 CUDA, 544 Tensor and 68 RT…

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ASUS’ new fitness watch is more useful and better looking

As before, sleep is another key focus of the device, although now with an added emphasis on your blood oxygenation levels. Essentially, when you're asleep, the watch will keep an eye on how much oxygen is pumping through your veins in case you're not getting enough. A lack of oxygen during sleep can be a…

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‘Carnival Row’ Brings a Richly Textured Fantasy World to Life

Humans and mythical creatures struggle to live together peaceably in the wake of a devastating war as a brutal serial killer runs amok in Carnival Row, a new "Victorian neo-noir" fantasy series on Amazon Prime. It's part murder mystery, part fairy tale, and 100% wholly original, rather than being an adaptation of pre-existing source material.…

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Roku Smart Soundbar: Price, Specs, Release Date

Once just the maker of humble streaming boxes, Roku is slowly spreading into every facet of the home theater experience. First came the Roku TV, with the streaming platform built into modestly priced 4K sets. Last year, the San Jose–based company got into the audio game, releasing a pair of wireless speakers. If that was…

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The Red Lights Stopping Yellow School Buses from Going Green

America’s fleet of 480,000 school buses drives nearly 3.5 billion miles every year. These diesel buses emit millions of tons of greenhouse gases into the environment, contributing to climate change, and expose children to dangerous pollutants that can affect their health and academic performance. Replacing them with electric options could drastically reduce school transportation’s impact…

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What Recession? Low Interest Rates Could Mean Tech-Fueled Growth

The financial world is buzzing with an arcane sounding issue—the inverted yield curve. Here’s what that means: The overwhelming majority of the time, the longer you want to borrow money for, the higher the interest rate. So a 30-year mortgage will typically carry a higher rate than a 15-year mortgage; that’s true of government bonds…

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Light Phone II: Price, Specs, Release Date

For half a year, Joe Hollier has been living without a phone. At least, without anything you'd recognize as a phone. He carries around a pocketable device, the color of graphite, that makes calls and sends text messages and does little else. To see it in his hand, or pressed up to his ear, looks…

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Why the Feds Want to Block a Flight-Booking Software Deal

Airline-booking software is the kind of back-office technology that seems like the last thing to attract the attention of antitrust regulators. But airlines complain that the US industry leader, Sabre, is opaque, frustrating, and sometimes slow-moving. So maybe it shouldn’t be a surprise that the US Department of Justice filed suit last month to prevent…

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Forget Politics. For Now, Deepfakes Are for Bullies

While Americans celebrated a long Labor Day weekend, millions of people in China enrolled in a giant experiment in the future of fake video. An app called Zao that can swap a person’s face into movie and TV clips, including from Game of Thrones, went viral on Apple’s Chinese app store. The app is popular…

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