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The company rates each battery to last for 2,000 recharge cycles, but expects to lose 20 percent of the original capacity after a quarter of that usage. So, after 500 cycles, Gogoro batteries are taken out of circulation — in order to ensure reliability for users, who are told to expect a 60-mile range from…
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tacanderson: As MakerBot Struggles, Desktop Milling Machines Are On The Rise – Buy a MakerBot Replicator, the leading desktop 3-D printer, for $2,889, and you can produce plastic prototypes or the kind of trinkets that you might find in a Happy Meal. Buy a small-scale milling machine like the Othermill, which retails for $2,199, and…
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Sunset is that rare game endeavours to challenge players to be entertained by something other than action. It wants us to engage a higher level of our minds, the part reigned by curiosity, empathy, and analytical thought. Chad Sapieha http://business.financialpost.com/fp-tech-desk/post-arcade/sunset-review-flawed-and-not-always-fun-but-also-smart-daring-and-worth-playing?__lsa=bbe2-a286 (via taleoftales)
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Annoyed GIF artists pestered by lunatic
brucesterling: *This just in from Hexeosis, a Tumblr GIF guy who very obviously makes his own material and never copies anything. http://hexeosis.tumblr.com WHY TUMBLR’S DMCA POLICIES ARE RIDICULOUS AND DISINGENUOUS Yesterday myself and several other GIF artists received a notice from Tumblr regarding copyright infringement. The letter’s tone of voice is unnecessarily condescending and contains…
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The future always comes looking like a toy. Benedict Evans, In mobile, disruption comes from above Evans goes on to say, regarding cell phones: The tech industry is very used to the idea that incumbents always laugh at disruption because though it’s cheap, it’s also crap, not realizing that history tells us it will get better.…
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Outgoing Cisco CEO predicts mayhem
wolfliving: *Epic struggle as Silicon Valley launches a ubiquitous power-grab. http://www.impactlab.net/2015/06/11/ciscos-ceo-40-percent-of-companies-are-dying/ “Beginning Monday in San Diego, Cisco Live, Cisco’s giant customer conference, was the last time outgoing CEO John Chambers would impart his vision in a keynote speech. “And was it ever a speech, filled with fire-and-brimstone predictions. “The upshot: Chambers, Cisco’s CEO of…