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Backup cameras will be mandatory for automakers by May 2018. The NHTSA on Monday issue new regulation that requires all vehicles under 10,000 pounds be equipped with rear-visibility cameras. The regulation, clearly, is meant to encourage a safer environment for both pedestrians and drivers, ensuring
Balderton Capital, the European VC investor behind MySQL, NaturalMotion and Yoox, has raised $305 million for its fifth European fund. As has been hinted at previously, the focus of the new fund will be on Series A investments in European tech startups. Other investments in other regions such as the
It may have been overshadowed by pricier acquisition deals in subsequent years, but HP’s 2010 takeover of Palm remains a milestone event. It was a seemingly perfect combination of a highly competitive mobile operating system with a deep-pocketed hardware juggernaut. HP promised it would fund t
Verizon’s latest DVR is less set-top box and more home media server: with six tuners and a 1TB hard drive, you can add a second DVR unit to record up to 12 channels at once and feed 10 TVs at any given time. The catchily named VMS1100 is Verizon’s FIOS Media Server, and is part of the [&
Thanks to Lingvist, a startup from Estonia, you can use a mathematically-optimized approach to language acquisition that will have you learning a new language in around 200 hours. The first language on offer are French, which are now in private beta, and Spanish and English are currently in the work
Back at CES, Intel made a big deal of the fact that it could squeeze a Linux-based PC with Bluetooth and WiFi into the size and shape of an SD card. However, with just a few months to go before the launch of these miniscule Edison development boards, it looks like the chip-maker has changed tack. In
According to data from a Kantar Worldpanel ComTech report for the three months to February 2014, Motorola’s budget Moto G device has helped boost the company from “almost nothing” to account for 6 percent of British smartphone sales in just six months. The Moto G was launched in November last year.
People are used to talking about The Pirate Bay in negative terms, but this initiative, a bundle that contains 101 free video games, is very cool indeed. These are games that are strange. These are games that are weird. These are games that have been ignored. These are games that deserve to be playe
A new trailer for Call of Duty: Ghosts showcases its second multiplayer expansion called Devastation and confirms a guest appearance from the Predator, the trophy hunting Yautja first introduced in 1987 film Predator. Developer Infinity Ward teased the alien’s inclusion last week in an Instagr
While gluing it to your hand may be one surefire way to prevent your mobile phone being stolen, surely the most effective anti-theft strategy would be to make the device as unattractive as possible to potential thieves. By this we don’t mean putting a picture of Donald Trump on your home screen or s
The U.S. Supreme Court is wading into a messy debate over when software deserves a patent, an issue that is important to big technology companies such as Microsoft and Google, yet has so far flummoxed the federal judiciary. The high court will hear oral arguments Monday in an appeal brought by Alice
Mozilla will be without half its board after three directors quit in the wake of Brendan Eich’s appointment as the new CEO. Last week, employees turned to social media to voice unhappiness that the company had appointed Eich, who has donated to groups opposing gay marriage. According to the Wa
