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Reply #2250 - Jun 12th, 2014 at 2:17pm
 
Tesla announced today it is dropping all of its patents applying to their electrical vehicles.  The company's engineering is now effectively open source.

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you

Too frickin' cool.  Kudos, Tesla!


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Reply #2251 - Jun 12th, 2014 at 3:37pm
 
Woa...this will be interesting to follow all around (economically, politically, corporately, etc.)...very very interesting.

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Reply #2252 - Jun 27th, 2014 at 9:57am
 
Here's some interesting new car technology.  Hyundai is pairing their automatic emergency braking system (a device that helps prevent collisions when a car in front of you rapidly brakes) with the vehicle's GPS to automatically reduce your speed to the speed limit when passing by traffic cameras.  I'm not sure how useful this would be in the United States where most of our speed enforcement is still done by police officers instead of static cameras, but it's still pretty nifty.

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/185365-hyundais-2015-genesis-will-automatical...


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(...could see this being a big selling feature in the future.)
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Reply #2253 - Jul 15th, 2014 at 4:34pm
 
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Reply #2254 - Jul 17th, 2014 at 9:16am
 
Surely, this is a sign of the coming apocalypse:

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Reply #2255 - Jul 17th, 2014 at 10:03am
 
I think I saw Briney update his profile picture the other day and I almost passed out.
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Reply #2256 - Aug 4th, 2014 at 4:00pm
 
Fight Club 2 is coming next year.  I'm betting this will be right up there with Boondock Saints 2 on my list of sequels that I refuse to acknowledge.

http://www.laggano.com/2014/07/fight-club-2-takes-place-alternately-in.html


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Reply #2257 - Aug 5th, 2014 at 3:18pm
 
I found it odd too that it's coming in graphic novel form.  Don't really understand why.  I read FC and it was enjoyable on it's own (even after seeing the movie).
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Reply #2258 - Oct 4th, 2014 at 3:01pm
 
The sequel to Super Troopers has been confirmed.  Something makes me think this is at least the third time I've seen "confirmation" of a sequel over the past five or six years.


http://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/super-troopers-sequel-confirmed-ste...


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Reply #2259 - Oct 10th, 2014 at 12:48pm
 
Here's a nifty video of Tesla's autopilot functionality in action...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7quu551ehc0

Admittedly, I'm somewhat dubious of a system that seems to rely on visual aids like lines in the road and speed limit signs.  Around here, we have plenty of streets that either don't have lines at all or they're badly faded.  Moreover, if this system actually reads speed limit signs instead of using GPS location for those signs, what happens when the sign is obscured or illegible?


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Reply #2260 - Nov 3rd, 2014 at 10:50am
 
Make sure your speakers aren't cranked too loud...

https://psapin.github.io/
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Reply #2261 - Nov 11th, 2014 at 1:53pm
 
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Reply #2262 - Mar 24th, 2015 at 1:52pm
 
Vivica Fox will be returning for Independence Day 2.

http://screencrush.com/vivica-a-fox-indendence-day-2/


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Reply #2263 - Mar 25th, 2015 at 7:36am
 
Ya, because her part was so important.

Here's the thing though.  No Will Smith.  So what would be her point?!
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Reply #2264 - Mar 31st, 2015 at 8:54am
 
The greatest song of our generation:




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