British government has announced that it has plans to make sure that the autonomous public transport vehicles are out and about in the UK and Scotland by 2021. The first auto buses are to be one-floor only, and will still have a driver onboard. They are to make their courses every twenty minutes and take up to 42 people. As for cabs, private taxi company Addison Lee will be financed by the government in order to roll out autonomous cars in the Greenwich area. London will also have a premium autonomous cab service in form of six Jaguar Land Rover Discovery cars. First tests of both options ...

China is plagued by a large number of illegal workshops dealing with extracting precious materials from old smartphones. Gold, silver and copper can all become a bounty of criminals crafty enough to know how to get them. One of such workshops has recently been raided by the chinese police. A whole family from one of China’s innumerable villages have taken part in the operation of illegal recycling. What is so bad about that? Well, nothing, except for litres of toxic waste that the recyclers usually get rid of in unsafe, nature-destroying manner. Primitive and irresponsible material ...

At least that is what he wishes to do. American website news Axios has had an interview with the genius millionaire inventor and occasional douchebag Elon Musk. In this interview, Elon Musk has let out that he hopes it will be possible for him to move to the Red Planet sometime in the future. The man believes that there is a ”70% chance” that that will be possible. People in the know-how believe this to be a pipe dream; radiation on Mars makes it impossible to live there given our current technology. In the future, though? We shall see.Today NASA’s InSight probe will ...

The story begun yesterday and although it was quickly ”fixed”, it will not be forgotten soon. If you asked Siri about Donald Trump – perhaps the president came up in a conversation, or you wanted to make sure you are up to date on the president of the US – you would get a Wikipedia-based article with a rather interesting version of Trump’s picture. As it is doubtful that Apple would select a dick pic to be the face of the article about Donald Trump, the most obvious answer is Wikipedia: someone edited up Trump’s wiki article and the newly put picture was ...

O tempora o mores… Only days after a PR fiasco that was the announcement of Diablo: Immortal, Blizzard is pushing its luck again. This time it was Kotaku who told the world that the gaming giant is working on a mobile Warcraft game. According to Kotaku, it is supposed to be an augmented reality game similiar in style to Pokemon: Go. Pokemon: Go is supposedly very popular among the Warcraft developers team, with the new Warcraft mobile team’s leader, one Cory Stockton, reportedly being a huge Pokemon fan in general. Those who managed to play the game’s early version say ...

Apple has recently removed Tumblr from its app store. The reason? Tumblr’s failure to filter child pornography. Tumblr released a statement in which the company admitted that its security scans repeatedly failed to filter out images of child pornography, failure which caused App Store to temporarily remove the app from its offer. The ban is to be revoked once Tumblr’s security measures will be sufficiently updated. Tweet Vote on HN ...

American cellphone network Verizon is working on starting a new communication standard, one that will replace both SMS as well as Messenger and other similiar communicators. The new standard is called RCS, which stands for Rich Communication Suite. RCS will allow to send multimedia files and text that weights even 100 megabytes – much more than the currently available 200 kilobytes of an MMS, whether these files be audio or video. It will have all the usual Messenger amenities such as location recognition and text delivery confirmation. The only bad side of RCS is that it requires a ...

Lately Google tries hard to make us keep using its Maps. They recently added the accident and speed camera report systems; today the gossip of a new function spreaded into the Internet. According to it, Google Maps will be receiving its own messenger soon. Interestingly, this messenger will not allow us to talk to friends and acquaintances, instead being limited to chatting with firms. Weird… The way it works is shown in this short video.I do not know whether or not such a function is really useful to Google Maps users. What I do know is that it will cause the app to be even more ...

One rather cranky Fallout fan tried to get a refund for his copy of Fallout 76. GameStop store did not agree to the man’s proposal, per its return policy. The owner of the game did not take that lying down and, instead of agreeing to the facts, threw a tantrum and demolished the story on his way out. Well… When good video games come out, people try their hardest to buy a copy; when bad ones come out, they try their best to return them. This clip is probably a pretty good Fallout 76 ...

As you are probably aware, YouTube has a section called YouTube Movies. There, YT offers a possibility of loaning and watching full lenght movies legally. Today, YT announced that it will widen this service; website will now allow to watch classic movies like Legally Blonde or the first Terminator. What’s the catch? Ah, there is one: you will have to endure advertisements during the show. Right now the upgraded service is only available in the US; it is unknown whether or not will it reach other ...