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Drive Car of the Year: Best Luxury Car over $80,000

11/12/2018, 8:43:06 PM
David Morley reviews the contenders for the Best Luxury Car over $80,000 category in the 2018 Drive Car of the Year awards, including the BMW 530e, Mercedes-Benz CLS450, Lexus LS500h and Audi A8 55TSI ✔ There’s a real mix of technologies here, with just about every mainstream concept covered off ✔ The Audi treads the most conventional path with a 3.0-litre petrol V6 turbocharged engine giving it 250kW of power and a neat 500Nm of torque ✔ Let's start a personal and meaningful conversation! Leave a comment (Get advice from an expert)


Volkswagen owners can use Siri Shortcuts to unlock their car

11/13/2018, 12:09:21 AM
You can also set the temperature and start the defroster using your voice. ✔ Bloomberg via Getty Images If you're a Volkswagen driver, you now have another way to lock and unlock your car, start and stop electric charging and check your remaining estimated mileage ✔ Still, this update deepens VW's ties with voice assistants -- it has already added Amazon Alexa to its cars


GM is going to allow Ford vehicles and other competitors on its Maven car-sharing platform

11/12/2018, 9:55:00 PM
GM’s car-sharing subsidiary Maven is undergoing another expansion. This time, it’s not just to a new city. Maven plans to open up its new peer-to-peer car rental service to allow owners to rent out non-GM vehicles. It is also setting its sights on bigger changes in the future, according… ✔ GM’s car-sharing subsidiary Maven is undergoing another expansion ✔ It is also setting its sights on bigger changes in the future, according to Julia Steyn, vice president of GM Urban Mobility and Maven, said Monday during a presentation at the UBS Global Technology Conference in San Francisco ✔ In 2017, the company launched Maven Reserve in Los Angeles and San Francisco to allow customers to rent its GM-branded vehicles for a month at a time


Sitting in traffic causes same damage as passively smoking 180 cigarettes a year

11/12/2018, 4:47:55 PM
DAILY commuters who spend an hour in traffic are at risk of damaging their health the equivalent to passively smoking a couple of cigarettes every day. It has been revealed that air pollution is 14… ✔ DAILY commuters who spend an hour in traffic are at risk of damaging their health the equivalent to passively smoking a couple of cigarettes every day ✔ In-car purifiers could provide a solution, removing up to 95 per cent of dangerous gases from the cabin


ISO, white balance, shutter speed and more: camera manual mode terms explained

11/12/2018, 10:29:16 PM
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Tesla is getting rid of a perk new Model S and Model X customers loved

11/12/2018, 6:08:08 PM
Tesla customers who purchase a Model S sedan or Model X SUV will no longer receive credits for free charging at the automaker's Supercharger stations. ✔ The representative added that customers who buy the Model S, Model X, or Model 3 sedan can receive six months of free Supercharger use if they buy their vehicle with a referral code from another customer ✔ Contact this reporter at mmatousek@businessinsider.com


13 Ridiculous Physics-Based Moments in Just Cause 4

11/12/2018, 5:14:28 PM
Makeshift wrecking balls! Skydiving quad bikes! Balloon-based murder! ✔ You  might  be interested in the dark history of the South American island nation of Solís, and its connection to Rico Rodriguez ✔ And somewhere, underneath it all, there's a physics engine struggling to make sense of all of this and, just occasionally, reacting in completely insane ways


India’s Top Payments App Faces Challenge From Google and WhatsApp

11/12/2018, 4:13:12 PM
Paytm is fighting to keep Google and WhatsApp at bay as they push into one of the hottest market for mobile wallets. ✔ Founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma’s Paytm has dominated India’s payments space since late 2016 ✔ BRK.B -1.03% The biggest challenge for its charismatic founder, 40-year-old Vijay Shekhar Sharma, lies ahead: Keeping Alphabet Inc.’s GOOGL -2.42% Google and Facebook Inc.’s FB -2.21% WhatsApp at bay as they push into India, the world’s hottest new market for mobile money ✔ It will be an uphill task for Paytm to grow from here at the rate they grew after the cash crunch, says Neil Shah, an analyst at research firm Counterpoint


A brief history of when trains ran on air

11/12/2018, 4:18:05 PM
At the height of the railway boom in the 1800s, steam wasn't the only way to move trains. ✔ Many of the problems encountered on the Croydon line foretold the demise of Brunel's atmospheric railway, which at this point in the summer of 1847, was almost operational ✔ Backlog is a series exploring the era of possibilities: engineering feats that followed the industrial revolution, quirky concepts the future's rendered obsolete, and inventions that paved the way for some of the technology we use today


Before-and-after photos show the devastating destruction in Malibu as the California wildfires rage on

11/12/2018, 11:22:09 PM
California has been overtaken by a string of deadly wildfires, including the Woolsey Fire in Malibu, which has killed two people so far. ✔ Chiu/AP 9/ Mulholland Highway, a popular route that connects to many regional parks, looked peaceful and pristine before the blaze ✔ It's a real community; it isn't something people buy into ✔ Source: Los Angeles Times Previous 1/ Next


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