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Are driverless motorcycles on the BMW project board?
Maybe, but for now, the motorcycle manufacturer is using its autonomous motorcycle tests to develop technologies to improve the safety for conventional riders.
“We want to teach the motorcycle how to ride a bike,” said Stefan Hans, the engineer who leads the self-driving motorcycle project for BMW Motorrad.
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Gmail announced that desktop users will soon be able to turn off Smart Reply, the slightly creepy way of using AI to suggest replies. Mobile users can already disable this option in their Gmail account settings).
The option to disable this feature, although welcome to many, may fall on deaf ears to others. It turns out Smart Reply is quite popular. According to the Wall Street Journal, Smart Reply is responsible for 10% of all Gmail responses.
Finally, a legitimate reason to use for ALLCAPS.
From TechCrunch:
The Federal Emergency Management Agency will this week test a new “presidential alert” system that will allow the president to send a message to every phone in the US.
The alert is the first nationwide test of the presidential alert test, FEMA said in an advisory, which allows the president to address the nation in the event of a national emergency.
Using the Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) system, anyone with cell service should receive the message to their phone.
“THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed,” the message will read, due to be sent out on Thursday at 2:18pm ET
via FEMA to send its first ‘Presidential Alert’ in emergency messaging system test — TechCrunch
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The Defense Department’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (or JEDI for short) pits cloud vendors Amazon, Oracle, Microsoft and the like in a $10 billion bidding war to be the DoD’s sole cloud solution.
Fore more check out Why the Pentagon’s $10 billion JEDI deal has cloud companies going nuts — TechCrunch
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The new iPhone models were debuted during yesterday’s Apple event.
In addition to the entry-level iPhone R, there are 2 variants of the iPhone XS (pronounced Ten-S, like the sport, not excess like, well, most anyone who feels a need to get the latest greatest iPhone). The major cellular providers are taking pre-orders and the models are expected in store by Sept 21.
Specs:
| XS | XS Max | XR | |
| Description | Latest | Latest and greatest | Budget |
| Price | 999 | 1,099 | 749 |
| Storage (in GBs) | 64, 256 or 512 | 64, 256 or 512 | 65, 128 or 256 |
| Case | Stainless Steel | Stainless Steel | Aluminum |
| Display | 5.8” OLED | 6.5” OLED | 6.1” LCD |
| HDR | Yes | Yes | No |
| Rear Camera resolution | Dual 12MP wide-angle & telephoto | Dual 12MP wide-angle & telephoto | Single 12MP |
| Front Camera | 7MP | 7MP | 7MP |
| 3D Touch | Yes | Yes | No |
| CPU | A12 | A12 | A12 |
| Wireless Charging | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Weight | 6.24 oz | 7.34 oz | 6.84 oz |
Following the successful adoption of the new Gmail, Google has announced it will discontinue the not so great experiment, Inbox, by March of 2019.
The announcement marks a decision to reinvest their R&D efforts back into the existing platform.
Good riddance (of course I said the same thing to my CompuServe and AOL accounts, way back when)
For more, read: TC: Say goodbye to Inbox by Gmail
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quincy
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The Milwaukee-based motorcycle manufacturer is going electric and coming to Silicon Valley. Harley-Davidson announced it will open an R&D Center in the Bay Area by the end year’s end, to support its commitment to building electric vehicles.
I still haven’t found a good onomatopoeia for the sound of an e-bike. Your thoughts?
For more, follow like: Harley Davidson is opening a Silicon Valley R&D center to power EV production — Tech to Technology
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