Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Volvo and Google together about self-driving cars – New Technology

Volvo Cars, Google and Ford starts a collaboration of self-driving cars. Even bildelarföretag as Uber and lifting involved.

The companies form a lobbying organization for the United States in collaboration with legislators and the public to strike a blow for the benefits of self-driving cars means in terms security and availability.

the cooperation group called ‘the self-driving Coalition for Safer Streets’ led by the former head of traffic safety organization NHTSA, David Strickland.

Strickland said in a statement that the best way for this innovation are clear rules that apply across the United states.

the NHTSA has previously stressed the need to avoid a patchwork of different rules for self-driving cars based on state decisions. The technology of artificial intelligence that Google uses for its self-driving cars could legally be seen as a driver in the federal law.

The five companies will initially work with civic organizations, municipalities and companies to spread the message of self-driving cars on the North American continent.

at the same time announces Volvo cars to start the UK’s biggest test project with self-driving cars. The project is called Drive Me London and is to ordinary families may use self-driving cars on public roads.

Volvo will then collect data from users, along with insurance research center Thatcham Research analyzing this data. The project starts in 2017 with a small number of semi-autonomous cars and then expanded to a hundred helautonoma cars in 2018.

– There are several benefits of autonomous cars, says Volvo Chief Hakan Samuelsson. Therefore, governments around the world adapt laws and infrastructure so that autonomous cars can get out on the roads as soon as possible.

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Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Volvo, Ford and Google join forces for autonomous cars – Auto Motor & Sport

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Several prominent companies that develop self-driving, autonomous vehicles today announced that they have formed a coalition. The aim is to jointly push for legislation that establishes clear rules for autonomous driving. In the US, the group wants to see uniform and government (federal) laws instead of separate laws in the various states.

The group includes Google, Volvo Cars, Ford Motor Company and Uber Technologies. As spokesperson has appointed David Strickland, a former senior official at the NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, traffic safety agency, roughly equivalent to the Swedish Transport Administration).

In addition to state laws want the group also work for the public to be informed about the improvement of road safety as it would involve the use of autonomous vehicles. According to Google’s own comparisons have already achieved a higher and safer “driving skills” with their autonomous systems, compared to human drivers.

Self-driving cars could also affect the wider community and social benefits, such as helping elderly people and disabled have a greater freedom.

Fewer cars would likely needed and autonomous vehicles would need for parking space in city centers to reduce radically. The car does not need to stop at the end point of the trip but could have run away and put in a suitable place.


   
   

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Apple sells fewer Iphone – for the first time – Swedish Dagbladet

an iPhone SE and an iPhone 6. Photo: Anders Ahlgren

Apple’s report for the first quarter of 2016 was supposed to have come yesterday. But because of the funeral of the former board member of the company, William Campbell, was shot report up one day.

The big question before the release of the latest figures from the Cupertino-based company’s iPhone. Analysts expect 50 million iPhones sold in the last quarter, writes the Wall Street Journal. That is 18 percent less than the same period last year – and the first time there is a dip in sales.

In addition to the expected drop in sales of iPhone track analysts that revenue will drop by 10 percent. The world’s largest companies thus looks to go against a historically bad report. What is the reason for this?

First do not attract the current lineup of smartphones enough. Just over a month ago, CEO Tim Cook Iphone SE. In principle, an update of iPhone 5s. So not something new and revolutionary as Apple previously accustomed us.

Second, China has it tough financially right now. The Chinese market is important for many companies, but everything has not gone on rails for Apple in the East. For example, recently the Chinese authorities shut down two of the Americans’ services, iTunes Movies and iBooks. It is unclear when the service comes back.

Third, not the smart watch Apple Watch has been the smash hit many believed. Watch celebrates first anniversary on Sunday and it’s been okay. Apple does not go out with figures on the number of watches sold, but analysts estimate that it is about about 12 million units sold. Not bad, but not terrific.

The future is uncertain to Apple. The sequel to the iPhone 6s, probably with the name iPhone 7, should be an innovative product. Otherwise there is the risk that the company loses a bit of its shine and especially its reputation as a trendsetter.

With that said, not just the sky overcast over Apple. UBS analyst Steven Milunovich says the technology site Cnet that the iPhone 7 will help Apple increase sales, 2017.

– Even without really awesome new features, the iPhone 7 increase demand for an upgrade, especially among the more than 200 million iPhone users who do not have a big screen. We have not seen Iphones peak yet.

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How high is the offer for a lunch with the Apple boss – Swedish Dagbladet

Apple CEO Tim Cook. Photo: Richard Drew / AP

The lunch aväts at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, “Silicon Valley”, California, and those who wish may bring additional lunch familiar. The winner will also get two VIP tickets to an Apple event. The money goes to the human rights organization Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, which Tim Cook is on the board.

While on previous occasions, Cook-lunches gone for hundreds of thousands of dollars. But the trend seems, like Apple’s sales, to be downward: the first auction in 2013 went for 610 000 dollars, the other for 330 000, the third 200 000 or so now 125 000 as the highest bid.

auction is closing May 5

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Dropbox demonstrates function Infinite – 99mac

If you use Dropbox and struggling with limited storage space on your computer will surely like the company’s latest bet Infinite.

# Dropbox is a popular service for backing up files that allows users to synchronize files on the company’s cloud service with various units. Computers that have the Dropbox software installed can allow all content on the cloud service syncs to your computer. An exceptional feature of however requires storage space available.

Anyone who has limited storage space on your computer have long had the ability to set the cloud service does not synchronize all files and folders to your computer. The downside to this is that the user can not see these directories and files in the computer’s file manager, a problem that Dropbox to fix the upcoming feature Infinite.

With the Infinite, all files and directories available stored on the cloud service is displayed in the file manager. Just as before, marked the files stored on your computer with a green tick. New with Infinite is that the files are not stored on your computer are listed in the file manager with a cloud symbol instead.

Synchronized files are marked with green check mark, and cloud stored files marked with a cloud icon.

If the user opens a file that is not stored on the computer loads the Dropbox software automatically downloads the current file and opens it in the appropriate application. In this way, you would theoretically keep your system free of files, and only download the files you need when you need them.

Dropbox has not announced when the update becomes available, but they have confirmed supported operating systems. In addition to OS X compatibility Windows 7, 8 and 10.

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Opportunity to have lunch with Tim Cook – 99mac

For those who want to eat lunch with Apple CEO Tim Cook is now a perfect opportunity to flex your wallet.

Charity organization Charity Buzz running again an auction where the winner gets to eat lunch with Apple CEO Tim Cook. Last year, paid the winner at least 1.7 million for a lunch with the CEO at Apple’s headquarters and sites to the company’s press event.

At this writing, the highest bid 125 $ 000 , equivalent to about one million crowns. The last day to bid is May 5 In addition to the winner and a friend will have lunch with Tim Cook at Apple’s headquarters in the United States receive the same people also points to one of the company’s popular product presentations.

Like the previous year the money from the auction to the charity Robert F. Kennedy Center for justice and human rights.

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Tesla’s super battery Power Wall sweeping the path with competitors – IDG.se

It’s no small task Elon Musk has tackled. To change the world and make households independent of the mains. Last year presented Tesla’s battery system for home, a battery with a capacity of seven kilowatt mounted on the wall. Now, the production rate increased and sales are expected to far exceed the full battery stock market in 2015, writes IDG News.

Tesla is expected this year to sell the 168.5 megawatt hours of energy storage systems for solar city, America’s leading companies for the installation of solar panels housing. It is six times more than they sold last year. And moreover 60 percent larger than the entire market for energy storage in the United States in 2015, according to data from GTM Research.

Read also: Elon Musk will solve the world’s traffic problems by using self-propelled coaches

sales for the Solar City, where Elon Musk is the chairman, and his cousin Lyndon Rive, CEO, is expected to be increased from 8 million to 44 million this year. An annual growth rate of 450 percent.

“The numbers are even more startling if we include the potential discount units,” said Ravi Manghani analyst GMT Reserch.

Elon Musk has said that the company’s billion complex, factory Gigafactory, will double the supply of lithium-ion batteries for cars and households when it reaches full production strength 2017.

at the same time is also expected to Lockheed Martin to pull up the pace of its production of lithium ion batteries. The company is primarily known for it based fighter but also the production of energy storage. The capacity of their commercial operations are expected to reach 125 kilowatts. Their modular batteries will be able to scale up to the megawatt installations.



Lockheed Martin's lithium ion battery.
Lockheed Martin’s lithium ion battery.


the global market for lithium-ion batteries totaled 2012 to 11.7 billion dollars, and is expected to reach $ 30.6 billion in 2024. the production of commercial battery systems of the type Power Wall is concentrated in a handful of regions. But according to analysts at IHS, allows reduced system costs growth may increase across the market.

Read also: Here is the new Tesla Model S – the luxury electric car gets a facelift

South Korea, Japan and the US will account for 59 percent of global installations of solar panels this year. The average price for lithium-ion batteries decreased by 53 percent from 2012 to 2015 a trend that looks set to continue in

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Apple sold fewer iPhones – for the first time – Swedish Dagbladet

an iPhone SE and an iPhone 6. Photo: Anders Ahlgren

Apple’s report for the first quarter of 2016 was supposed to have come yesterday. But because of the funeral of the former board member of the company, William Campbell, was shot report up one day.

The big question before the release of the latest figures from the Cupertino-based company’s iPhone. Analysts expect 50 million iPhones sold in the last quarter, writes the Wall Street Journal. That is 18 percent less than the same period last year – and the first time there is a dip in sales.

In addition to the expected drop in sales of iPhone track analysts that revenue will drop by 10 percent. The world’s largest companies thus looks to go against a historically bad report. What is the reason for this?

First do not attract the current lineup of smartphones enough. Just over a month ago, CEO Tim Cook Iphone SE. In principle, an update of iPhone 5s. So not something new and revolutionary as Apple previously accustomed us.

Second, China has it tough financially right now. The Chinese market is important for many companies, but everything has not gone on rails for Apple in the East. For example, recently the Chinese authorities shut down two of the Americans’ services, iTunes Movies and iBooks. It is unclear when the service comes back.

Third, not the smart watch Apple Watch has been the smash hit many believed. Watch celebrates first anniversary on Sunday and it’s been okay. Apple does not go out with figures on the number of watches sold, but analysts estimate that it is about about 12 million units sold. Not bad, but not terrific.

The future is uncertain to Apple. The sequel to the iPhone 6s, probably with the name iPhone 7, should be an innovative product. Otherwise there is the risk that the company loses a bit of its shine and especially its reputation as a trendsetter.

With that said, not just the sky overcast over Apple. UBS analyst Steven Milunovich says the technology site Cnet that the iPhone 7 will help Apple increase sales, 2017.

– Even without really awesome new features, the iPhone 7 increase demand for an upgrade, especially among the more than 200 million iPhone users who do not have a big screen. We have not seen Iphones peak yet.

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Research on game damage may Millions – ATL

Deer and especially wild boars has recently become a regular feature in the south of Sweden and thus the damage to both crops and forest. When the Environmental Protection Agency now distribute support from the Wildlife Protection Fund include it in the appropriations.

Henrik Andren at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in total SEK 2.7 million for the three years studying how damage to agricultural crops caused by wild boars can reduced by preventive measures such as electric fences and feeding.

at the same time awarded Anders Jarnemo at Halmstad University, 1.1 million for studies on chronic skadeffekt deer on the forest. The motivation reads: “The project will examine the relationship between chronic deer give birth and increased bark peeling, such as studies of how canola intake affects the bark peeling of spruce.”

The money from the Wildlife Protection Fund comes from the hunting fee they Swedish hunters annually pay into.

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Monday, April 25, 2016

Millions of Android apps for Chromebooks – New Technology

It seems that Google plans to let computers with Chrome OS, called Chromebooks, run Android apps. A mysterious update for developers point to major changes.

The developer version of Chrome OS appeared the other day option up to allow Chrome to run Android through a much simpler control than before, writes among others Ars Technia. It means full access to all the apps in Google Play.

The first quarter of this year there were over 2 million apps for Android in Google Play, according to a report from the Sensor Tower, specializes in the optimization of apps marketplaces. According to the same report, was 11.1 billion downloads of apps from Google Play in the first quarter of this year.

Today, charging users of Chromebooks down apps via the Chrome Web Store. From here it is currently only possible to download a handful of Android apps from the app store.

For a year developers have been able to test drive Android apps on Chromebooks through the App Runtime for Chrome (ARC). The easier option appeared the other day for some developers in version 51 of Chrome OS, but then disappeared again. Interestingly, at this a month before Google’s big developer conference, I / O.

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Sunday, April 24, 2016

Can not fault the cars – but the owners “- Aftonbladet

Fiat-Chysler Group recalling more than one million cars.

For some of the owners do not understand the world’s smartest gearbox. Perhaps it would be better to withdraw the owners?

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the cars it is about have suddenly rolled away since the drivers parked and got out of the car. According to reports in the American press has led to some forty incidents involving minor injury and material damage.

What really happened? And why.

The reports from the United States is not exhaustive but it is all about the owners become “confused” by his car’s automatic transmission shift lever, according to the mighty insurance organization NHTSA requesting that the Fiat-Chrysler recalls cars. More than 800 000 US. More than 800 in Sweden will also be revoked.



P where stands the car still

A traditional automatic transmission has a gear shift to a parking position, called the “P” or “Park”, a driving position referred to as “D” or “Drive”, another couple of driving modes forward-called type 1, 2, 3 and so on. And a reverse mode called the “R” or “Reverse”.

The gear shift is moved forward or backwards to the position you want to use.

When you park your car for one shift lever to “P”. When the car is stationary. Some parking brake (handbrake, to be clear, if someone does not understand) is not needed. The car appears to be nailed to the ground.



The box is superior

But now there is a new type of derailleurs which in my humble opinion is totally superior to the traditional derailleur. BMW was the first, if I remember correctly. Last car I drove with the new smooth gear shift was the new Audi Q7.

The derailleur has a forward position, a reverse, and the cunning is that the derailleur when you set it where you want (forward or reverse) springs back to the zero position.

And when you turn the engine off so you do not think about anything p mode, the transmission is in P mode automatically.

Less work for the driver that is.

the problem is the owners

But if you want to leave the car with the engine idling, to, well have to heat or in the United States perhaps more often, the air conditioner. Well, then it must be understood clicking in the p-position itself.

Otherwise, the driving position is left. Just like any old automatic transmission. If you stay with the driving position in and stepping out without pulling the handbrake, even when driving the car away.

Well, perhaps you can guess what’s wrong with Chrysler cars?

their owners!

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Macchiarini reporter wins award for its science – Today’s News

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Saturday, April 23, 2016

Focus Book app helps you to check your Facebook Spirit – Sveriges Radio

Listen to the category netizens often use Facebook to “just check something” and then several hours later realize that you do not remember what it was you even would check, but oh how time flew away. If so, you are not alone. When that happened Yonah Forst once too often, he built an app to remedy the problem.

So if you like Yonah Forst usually facebooka Chrome browser, there is now a brand new plug-in that you can download to help to control your use, which TechCrunch tips on today. With Focus Book installed you will be avkrävd a purpose of why you opened this, and you will be reminded of this purpose until you shut down the page again.

There is already another Chrome extension called Kill Newsfeed replacing your news feed with the text “do not get distracted by Facebook”, but it allows you to still check your inbox, send messages, receive notifications and make your own status updates

If these plug-ins would be part of some kind of war strategy from Google, which is behind Chrome, and is a competitor to Facebook, we can only speculate. And for those who feel they have a too intensely social media use, we remind you that these tips do not work if you Facebookar in such mobile app, and that there are many other social media platforms that are just as unhealthy to over consume and be distracted by when you have something else more important to do.

Happy holidays
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Worse than expected Microsoft – Swedish Dagbladet

The share fell about 4 percent after trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

Net income fell to 3.76 billion dollars, or 47 cents per share, from 4.99 billion dollars, or 61 cents per share , in the same period last year.

sales fell by more than a billion dollars to 20.53 billion dollars compared with last year.

Adjusted for one-time expenses, earnings 62 cents per share. Analysts on average had expected a profit of 64 cents per share.

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Bluff Mail addressed to Apple Customers – Metro

Iphone and Ipad users are targets in the latest in a series of global online fraud, reports The Guardian.

The scam emails and messages that appear to come from Apple is trying fraudsters lure users to provide their login information to cloud service iCloud, to get access to the personal information that many stores there.

in the messages stated that the account has been locked to protect the information and the user is prompted to verify your account by clicking on a link. The method is similar to that used in previous scattered scam e-mails with other alleged sender, where the fraudsters in the next step requires money.

– This is a particularly manipulative deception when it threatens to disable the right cloud service accounts – where many of us store our most dear and important documents, things we just can not risk losing, says Tom Neate at nätskyddssajten Get Safe Online to the Guardian.

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