AR pioneer Blippar is going out of business
"Pioneering augmented reality startup Blippar, once touted as a $1.5 billion British tech unicorn, has stumbled into administration. The company said that it failed to secure the funding it needed to reach profitability following a dispute with one of..."
https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/18/ar-blippar-administration/Lenovo built a slider phone with 12GB of RAM
" While Lenovo continues to push the Motorola brand in the West, it's also been busy doing its own thing back in China. Just last month, the company brought us the Z5 Pro all-screen slider phone which, to our surprise, packed mid-tier specs to woo the..."
https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/18/lenovo-z5-pro-gt-855-edition-z5s/Google 拨出 10 亿美元预算来兴建纽约新园区
" Google 宣布将投放 10 亿美元到他们将座落于美国纽约市的新园区，新址占地共 170 万平方英尺，Google 表示已经签下了 Hudson Street 315 号和 345 号的租约，Washington Street 550 号也已经签署意向书，再连同于年初以 24 亿美元收购的 Manhattan Chelsea Market，三处共同组成全球业务组的新家，进驻多达 14,000 名员工。这统称为 Google Hudson Square 的新园区会分阶段落成，首先会在 2020 年启用位于 Hud…"
https://cn.engadget.com/2018/12/18/google-1-billion-new-nyc-campus/NASA engineer creates glitter bomb package to thwart parcel thieves
" Because we live in a world where we can't have nice things, package theft is a real problem, and in recent times unscrupulous individuals stealing parcels from porches have prompted police sting operations, as well as longer-term tech innovation, suc..."
https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/18/nasa-engineer-glitter-bomb-parcel-pirates/Study: Women are abused every 30 seconds on Twitter
" Earlier this year Amnesty International released a report discussing what many of Twitter's female users already know: the social network is not always a great place to be if you're a woman. Now, a new study reveals the hard statistics on just how to..."
https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/18/women-are-abused-every-30-seconds-on-twitter/捷豹的自动车门可以使进出车辆更没有障碍
"对于肢体伤残或拥有其它障碍的朋友来说，进出车辆往往不是件轻松的事。然而，捷豹这回带来的自动车门，透过无钥匙和动作传感器的技术，让乘客或驾驶往后只需要靠近车门，它就能够自动开启。而当准备好要上路时，你也只需要按下头顶或车载系统上的按钮，就可以将其关闭。此外，该组车门也拥有感应雷达，可以防止它碰撞到邻近的车辆或其它物体。
该公司为了完整测试这项新的车门技术，也特别邀请到了身兼运动员和前英国海军陆战队突击队员双重身分的著名残疾人士 Mark Ormrod 亲自参与。然而，目前该技术实际应用至产品线的时程，尚未有明确的…" https://cn.engadget.com/2018/12/18/jaguar-land-rover-automatic-door/
The Morning After: Best of 2018
" Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. With 2019 rapidly approaching, we've kicked off our year-in-review series looking at the best and worst gadgets 2018 had to offer. Also, there's something Amazon doesn't want to sell you, and Carlton is suing th..."
https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/18/the-morning-after-best-of-2018/松井愛莉をファンがGalaxy Note9で激写！写真のデコではセンス爆発
" 六本木ヒルズのヒルズカフェにて展開している「Galaxy Studio Roppongi Hills」にて12月18日、「Galaxy Note9」を活用した「Galaxy Sessions」を開催しました。
Galaxy Note9は10月25日に発売したSamsungのSペン対応フラグシップスマートフォンです。背面カメラはデュアルレンズ仕様で、周囲の明るさにあわせてF1.5とF2.4を自動で切り替える機械式の可変絞りを搭載。イラストや手書きメモがとれるSペンはBluetooth対応になりペンのボ…" https://japanese.engadget.com/2018/12/18/galaxy-note9/
百度将采用 Unity 的游戏引擎来测试自驾车
" 百度和 Unity 日前宣布达成合作，将会利用后者的 3D 引擎技术来助力前者开发基于阿波罗平台的自动驾驶汽车。Unity 的即时模拟系统能够将自驾车的开发环境非常有效地数码化，而这会给参与到阿波罗计划的五十多家车厂和 OEM 带来不小的益处。「没人会在电子游戏中受伤。」Unity 的自驾业务负责人 Tim McDonough 这么跟我们说道，「你还能进行一些在现实世界中没法完成的测试。车子前面突然冲出小孩或是一头鹿该怎么办？这些东西你都是没法实际测试的，但在模拟引擎里不管什么样的细节你都可以做到。」
不光如…" https://cn.engadget.com/2018/12/18/baidu-unity-autonomous-vehicle-development/
The US ballistic missile system is a cybersecurity nightmare
" The US Department of Defense Inspector General has recently taken a close look at the country's Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) and found its cybersecurity measures lacking in many, many aspects. In the report (PDF) published in April and une..."
https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/18/us-ballistic-missile-system-cybersecurity/ https://http://www.engadget.com/ 