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Inside project Ara: Google plans to disrupt the smartphone market, releasing a "lego-like" phone

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Ara and Google plans to disrupt the smartphone market by unleashing a "lego-like" phone that lets you swap in interchangeable parts to get new abilities.   The Phone You Can Truly Customize  In the three years since work first started on Ara, the modular phone has always seemed like a pipe dream, and Google has always treated it that way. It's been part of the company's ATAP division -- Advanced Technologies and Products -- a skunkworks explicitly tasked with turning such fantasies, like sensors you can swallow, into consumer reality. Advantages of Ara  When the Project Ara Developer Edition ships this fall, it will come with four modules to start: a speaker, a camera, an E-Ink display (like the one you'd find on an Amazon Kindle e-reader) and an expanded memory module. Those might not sound all that exciting, but they're all things that even high-end smartphones don't necessarily do well. And with Ara, you're not limite...

Driveless Car completes a cross country trip.

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You may have heard of self driving automobiles but the delphi model has officially been announced to travel a distance of 3,500 mile from San Francisco to New York setting a record of the first self-driven car to travel that distance in North America. Although, the longest trip ever made by a driverless car was an 8,000-mile journey from Europe to Shanghai in 2010 when a self-driving van from Italian company VisLab made the three-month trek. The Delphi’s self-driving car, which is modeled after a 2014 Audi SQ5 and debuted at CES 2015, made it's mark. It features six long-range radars, four short-range radars, three vision-based cameras, six lidars, a localization system, intelligent software algorithms and a full suite of Advanced Drive Assistance Systems. The car can manage four-way stops, merge onto highways, and steer around unexpected presences in the roadway, such as a bicyclist. And it seemed to do all this fine along its record-breaking trip, as there we...

Kyocera Sapphire phone nearly impossible to scratch

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Finally, the problem of our everyday cracked phone screen has been solved. Survey have found out that many iPhones today have being subjected to this broken screen. This year, Kyocera debuted a display that’s virtually indestructible. The Sapphire Shield is made from lab-synthesized sapphire, one of the hardest materials on Earth. The screen can survive a fall from twice the height that regular glass can. In addition, it’s nearly impossible to scratch. Kyocera