General Motors Wednesday introduced the Chevrolet Bolt, the first long-range, plug-in electric car that real people can afford to drive.
Priced around $30,000 (after government rebates), the five-passenger Bolt has an electric range of around 200 miles, more than enough for families to use as their daily driver without fear of running out of juice. Most people would never need to recharge anywhere but home. But if you do, you can refill the battery to 80 percent of capacity in about 30 minutes.
U.S. movie streaming giant Netflix just dropped the hammer and opened its service in 130 new countries, including India and Russia — but crucially not China. These new markets take Netflix, which claims 70 million customers, to more than 190 countries worldwide.
The surprise reveal came at CES 2016, where the company had expected to announce its long-awaited entry into India. Well, it did that, and then some. The move was unexpected since Netflix had slowly been building its coverage up over recent years, foraying into Asia Pacific for the first time in 2015.
That’s the weird thing about getting older. There’s no magic eight ball. There’s no manual. There’s no great big cheat sheet. You don’t generally know that you’ve gotten it right until you’ve made it through to the other side. That’s especially true when it comes to money.
The whole thing got me thinking: wouldn’t it be great if there really was a cheat sheet for getting older? One targeted to finance? What if there was a list of what you absolutely needed to know about money written by folks who have already been forced to make those tough calls?
In 2008, Regent University law professor James Duane gave a lecture. The lecture gained traction online over the years (one version of the lecture video is up to five million YouTube views), but now it’s being rediscovered by fans of the hit Netflix show “Making A Murderer” on Reddit.
Much of Duane’s lecture feels particularly relevant given the relationship between the police and the suspects (innocent and otherwise) on the show.
HEY, 2016: PACE yourself, huh? It’s raining in Los Angeles, freezing in Florida, tornado-ing in Texas. And then there’s the floods: houses in Illinois and Missouri up to their roofs in muddy Missouri River water. El Niño is finally here.
Or is it? Or wasn’t it already? No and yes, and yes and no. Scientists have had a pretty good idea since September that El Niño was going to be a monster (they even nicknamed it “Godzilla”). They knew what that meant in general—wet Southwest, warm Northeast. But picking out El Niño’s effect on any particular event is tricky.
New Yorkers, say goodbye to dirty unused pay phones and hello to super-fast, free Wi-Fi.
Today is the long-awaited unveiling of the city’s first Link stations, the kiosks that will replace the old phones with not only free one gigabit Wi-Fi, but also free domestic calling, Internet browsing, and USB charging. The first two will be located on Manhattan’s Third Avenue in the East Village.
Silicon Valley has its own unique culture that could be described as whimsical and nerdy, but also prone to excess. It’s that last feature we may see dialing back in 2016 as tech startups begin to feel the reality of shifting investing habits among venture capitalists, and more people start to accept the word “bubble” as a household term. Here are six trends that could be on their way out in the new year.
“These statistics,” I said, “Where did you get them?” The writing was solid and everything made sense, but there was no source attribution.
It was 2005. We’ve just gotten serious staff for the first time. The writer was a fresh faced woman from Texas, who, by the way, possessed serious brains and a dangerous wit. She answers me confidently.
“Wikipedia.”
“The open source online encyclopedia?,” I asked. Wikipedia was only four years old and notoriously inaccurate. I wanted sources as close to the information as we could get.
Chris Inglis has worked in intelligence most of his adult life. He’s tall, imposing and speaks with precision.
Debates about encryption technology — like the ones that cropped up after last month’s terror attacks in Paris — are nothing new to him. Reports that ISIS is using apps with encryption tech to hide their conversations don’t surprise him. He was the deputy director of the NSA and saw dozens of times when encryption was an obstacle in pursuing a target.
He couldn’t get into specifics but explained broadly: The agency might identify an adversary through financial transactions, or by following the chain of possession for weapons. But if the target was using some form of encrypted messaging, the NSA would lose the last piece of the puzzle.
“The worst case scenario is that we fail to see a plot that essentially is on the fly … and that we only see it when it’s in execution,” Inglis said. “At that moment in time, you’re reacting to a disaster in the making as opposed to staving one off. That’s the threat, that’s the challenge.”
Whether you are using your new drone for business or any other purpose, all drones within a certain weight range must now be registered with the federal government.
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced its strategic drone registration site that’s now up and running. The initiative has put into place to protect the rights of the owners as well as those of the public, the FAA claims.
