Ring security lights all but confirmed by FCC filing

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<p id=A pair of outdoor security lights from Ring have leaked via two FCC filings. The documents, which were first spotted by Dave Zatz, indicate that Ring is preparing to launch two new outdoor lights — its first that won’t also include a security camera. One model, the Ring Beams Spotlight, is battery-powered and has a single LED light. The other, the Ring Beams Wired Floodlight, is a bigger, wired device that’s equipped with two lights.

The leaks come less than a week before CES 2019 is due to start, where Ring is likely to announce new products. It’s been almost a year since the Amazon-owned Ring acquired Mr Beams, a company that already produces some very similarlooking security lights. Ring has previously built lights into its security…

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Tesla cuts vehicle prices by $2,000 to offset shrinking EV tax credit

Tesla knocked $2,000 off of the prices of its cars in the US on Wednesday to help offset a recent reduction of the federal electric vehicle tax credit. The automaker also announced initial delivery and production numbers for the fourth quarter of 2018, showing that the frenzied pace it carried through most of the year — led by the big Model 3 push — helped Tesla set new company records, even though it cooled toward the end.

The cheapest Model 3 (a “midrange” rear-wheel drive version announced in October) will now start at $44,000. The base Model S now costs $76,000, and the most affordable Model X now starts at $82,000. (Prices for the base Models S and X went up in November.)

Tesla’s pace of production and deliveries tapered off…

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We went on a fake Mars mission in Hawaii

Before we can send humans to Mars, we’ll need to select people who can live and work together in an extreme and distant environment. So how do we figure that out? One way is to re-create Mars here on Earth.

That’s where HI-SEAS comes in. It’s a fake interplanetary habitat located on an active volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island. From 2013 to 2018, the University of Hawaii operated simulated Martian missions inside the habitat. For months at a time, people would live inside HI-SEAS, re-creating the conditions they might experience during a Mars mission. That meant conserving water, eating preserved foods, and simulating the delay in radio communications between Earth and Mars. They also couldn’t go outside of the habitat unless they were…

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