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Enlarge / Intel’s XMM 7560 modem is, like Qualcomm’s X16 modem, capable of gigabit speeds. (credit: Intel) Central to the promise of a new generation of Windows 10 on ARM PCs (the first two of which were announced yesterday) is the idea of being “Always Connected:” that your mobile PC, like your smartphone, is almost […]
Avis Budget Group Inc said on Thursday it has launched in the Kansas City, Mo., area its first fleet of cars that are fully connected to the internet, other vehicles, and to the car rental company via wireless technology. The Parsippany, N.J.-based company’s so-called Mobility Lab will connect all 5,000 cars in its Kansas City […]
Japanese telecommunication and automotive giants SoftBank and Honda are teaming up for a joint research program that will look at how fifth generation mobile networks, or 5G, can be used to improve connected car technology. 5G promises higher-capacity connectivity compared to existing 4G standards, and carriers around the world are currently investing in the infrastructure needed […]
When it’s not busy making billion-dollar acquisitions to expand its robotics line-up, Japanese mobile carrier SoftBank is pursuing its other hobby: smart cars. Central to this endeavour is its partner, and fellow Japan native, Honda. Last year, the two announced plans to make cars emotive using cloud-based tech based on SoftBank’s Pepper robot (think Knight […]
Days ago, a Redditor discovered that their Lovense remote control app was unknowingly recording audio of a six-minute intimate session between the user and their significant other. It happened while they used the app to control the Lovense vibrator it’s paired with, and it saved the recording to a local file buried in the phone’s […]
Enlarge / Taylor Swift performing onstage in Houston, Texas. (credit: Mike Coppola/Getty Images for DIRECTV) Lawyers representing pop star Taylor Swift sent a cease-and-desist letter to a politics and culture blog, demanding the retraction of an article tying Swift to white supremacist culture. But instead of removing the article, PopFront editor Meghan Herning called the […]
BI Intelligence This is a preview of a research report from BI Intelligence, Business Insider’s premium research service. To learn more about BI Intelligence, click here. Media consumption is at a saturation point. After rising for much of the last decade, total digital time spent has been nearly static since the start of 2015. As a result, it’s increasingly […]
Way back when, Dutch teledildonic startup Kiiroo launched a pair of devices that let you have sex from opposite ends of the internet. There was only one problem: the Onyx male masturbator and Pearl connected vibrator were pretty underwhelming. It’s a problem that Kiiroo has sought to remedy by leaving the hardware design to sex […]
Shutterstock A hedge fund run by the scion of New York real estate dynasty is returning money to outside investors amid poor performance, according to documents seen by Business Insider. The fund is O-Cap Management, a small New York-based hedge fund managed by Michael Olshan. Olshan is the son of Morton Olshan, the chairman and founder […]
Shutterstock A hedge fund run by the scion of New York real estate dynasty is returning money to outside investors amid poor performance, according to documents seen by Business Insider. The fund is O-Cap Management, a small New York-based hedge fund managed by Michael Olshan. Olshan is the son of Morton Olshan, the chairman and founder […]
