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At next week’s Beijing Motor Show, Volvo is set to introduce a new member of its plug-in hybrid family. The company has had success with the world’s first diesel PHEV, the V60 plug-in hybrid, but the new S60L is dubbed a PPHEV. The extra P stands for petrol. Unsurprisingly given the debu
Word on the street has it that Motorola is working on a new smartphone that sports a 4.3” display, where this alleged handset will arrive in three different models – the single SIM XT1021, the dual SIM XT1022, and the XT1025 that sports dual SIM capability in addition to digital TV ability. Apparent
Uber offers on-demand rides in vehicles that vary in their swankiness. Fares on its lower-priced UberX option are about to go up with a “Safe Rides” fee tacked on to your receipt. The company said in a Thursday night blog post that the $1 fee is its way of demonstrating “continued commitment to safe
The City of Seattle’s ordinance against ridesharing services has been suspended. A group has collected enough signatures to place a referendum on the ballot that would overturn the recently approved regulations for companies like UberX and Lyft. The new regulations would have gone into effect
Has it truly been six months already? It feel like just yesterday we were kicking the tires on a fresh install of Saucy Salamander. Now Canonical is pushing out the latest version of its popular Linux distro. Ubuntu 14.04 LTS , code named: Trusty Tahr, is part of its long term support series which m
In a last effort before its April 22nd hearing, Aereo is defending its service in a “media blitz,” as Re/code calls it, whose purpose is to better inform everyone that its business isn’t infringing on any copyright laws. The company will explain next week to the Supreme Court why its services are le
Samsung is partnering with chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries to increase the supply of low-power, high-speed chips for smartphones and tablets. GlobalFoundries has licensed Samsung’s 14-nanometer FINFET chip making process, which is used to manufacture 3D transistors. Those transistors will all
Back in January, arts and crafts retail giant Michaels announced that it was investigating a potential security breach, and now the company has confirmed that millions of credit cards may have been compromised by a cyberattack. The company says that the attack targeted its point-of-sale systems at a
Five music labels have filed a lawsuit against streaming music service Pandora Music, saying the company is violating state law by refusing to pay labels and artists for its use of recordings made before 1972. U.S. copyright law doesn’t cover recordings made before 1972, but the five music labels—Ca
Emotional labor is a kind of work we often don’t recognize as work: the need to appear friendly, deferential, or attentive at a job. Fast food restaurant Pret a Manger is famous for holding its employees to exacting friendliness standards, and emotional labor’s overall importance is beco
3D printers are building some pretty amazing stuff lately: working speakers, wooden furniture,prosthetic limbs, and even foods like pizza and pasta — but WinSun Decoration Design Engineering Co. of Shanghai, China is thinking much, much bigger. Instead of pumping out small plastic parts with a deskt
Ride-sharing startups may be red hot, but what about public transportation? And what about good, old-fashioned walking? Urban transportation tracker Citymapper just racked up a fresh $10 million to keep helping people take advantage of public transit, sidewalk
