The $300 charger carries more than a laptop’s charge but isn’t too big to carry on a plane.
Hyper announces the ‘world’s most powerful USB-C battery pack’
In the battle for battery virility, Hyper just launched HyperJuice. The company says it’s “the world’s most powerful USB-C battery pack” and the first to support the 100W USB-C Power Delivery 3.0 Profile. The battery is capable of 130W of total combined output when using the 100W (max) USB-C input / output jack, the 60W (max) USB-C jack, and the trusty 18W (max) USB-A Quick Charge jack. And at 100Wh (27,000mAh), it’s the highest-capacity battery approved by the FAA for your carry-on luggage.
If you own a 100W USB-C charger, then you can charge the HyperJuice in about an hour. A 60W charger will take around 1.7 hours to go from empty to full. Whatever you use, you’ll have to supply it yourself since Hyper doesn’t include a charger in the…
Google AI Tool Identifies a Tumor’s Mutations From an Image
The algorithm can distinguish between different kinds of lung cancer, and could speed up a patient’s diagnosis by weeks.
Facebook Broadens Its Bug Bounty to Include Third-Party Apps
Starting Monday, Facebook will pay at least $600 to researchers who spot third-party apps behaving badly on its platform.
Xbox One controllers for console and PC are $20 off today
Discounts are rare for Microsoft’s Xbox One wireless controller for console and Windows 10, but it’s available today at Walmart and Amazon for $39.99, which is $20 off of its original price.
Enhanced over the version that first launched with the Xbox One, this revised controller features a 3.5mm headphone jack for private listening and chatting, as well as Bluetooth functionality for operability with Windows 10 computers. If your PC doesn’t have Bluetooth or if you just want a wired connection that won’t drain the controller’s AA batteries, this model includes a Micro USB cable that allows for immediate plug-and-play recognition. If you’re alright with spending a bit more, Amazon also has the controller bundled with Microsoft’s new…
Amazon opens its first cashier-less Go store outside of Seattle
Amazon is opening its first cashier-less grocery store outside of its hometown of Seattle. The new store is opening in Chicago today. Like the other stores before it, it’s open long hours (from 7AM to 8PM), and it doesn’t have any checkout lines.
Amazon has three other Amazon Go stores, all in Seattle, that it launched between 2016 and this year. They’re each the size of a small convenience store, which is far smaller than the average US supermarket. Similar to a 7-Eleven, Amazon Go mainly sells ready-made lunches, drinks, snacks, frozen dinners, and basic groceries.
The stores use hundreds of cameras and sensors to account for what people are buying. People simply need to use their Amazon Go app to enter the store, pick up what they…
Lucid Motors closes $1 billion deal with Saudi Arabia to fund electric car production
Lucid Motors, the electric car startup that aims to compete with Tesla, will receive an eye-popping $1 billion in funding from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, the kingdom announced on Monday. The investment will finance Lucid Motor’s 2020 commercial launch of its first electric vehicle, the Lucid Air. Meanwhile, Tesla’s stock dipped by as much as 2 percent in early trading on news of the investment.
The deal is a major win for Lucid, which has languished over the last year as it failed to secure the funding necessary to start making its luxury electric cars. News of the talks comes weeks after Saudi Arabia purchased 5 percent of Tesla and emerged as a central player in Elon Musk’s failed effort to take the company private again….
Sinemia’s Unlimited Movie Ticket Plan Costs $30 a Month
MoviePass competitor Sinemia is introducing an unlimited plan of its own, but it’ll cost you.
Photo Gallery: Meet the Transhumanists Turning Themselves Into Cyborgs
Swiss photographer Matthieu Gafsou traveled the world documenting the transhumanist subculture.
Behind the gorgeous new illustrated edition of Ursula K Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness
The Folio Society has released a number of stunning illustrated editions of science fiction and fantasy novels in recent years, from Neil Gaiman’s American Gods and Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? to Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot. One of its latest offerings is a new edition of The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin’s classic sci-fi novel about a planet whose inhabitants have no fixed sex.
This isn’t the first time Le Guin — who died in January — has seen her work adapted in such a fashion. The Folio Society released a wonderful edition of her novel A Wizard of Earthsea a couple of years ago, and later this year, Saga Press will release an illustrated omnibus edition of the Earthsea saga. Artist…