Tesla Motors’s Car Model S Safety Is Their Primary Goal

Tesla Motors is working on the issue to add titanium shields and aluminum deflector plates on their Model S. After two cars caught fire last year causing damage, the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration (NHTSA) opened a safety investigation. Since Tesla Motors made an announcement that it will triple the protection on the car batteries and getting the risks down to zero, NHTSA closed it.
According to the Tesla Motors costumers, the Model S is actually very safe. Just a few months ago, a Tesla driver had a serious collision, slamming into the passenger’s right side door with 20 mph. There were four children under the age of eleven in the car. The airbags immediately deployed, as the car began to slide and rotate. After that, the driver asked if his four children were okay, and they were only with minor scratches. Everybody was feeling minor dizziness due to the airbags, but that was it. The car was severely damaged on the side, but the windows didn’t have a scratch. A normal car, according to him, would’ve been flipped and rolled over with that speed, but that’s to the low center of gravity and the car’s heaviness, the situation had a happy ending.
Another recent incident with a Model S was at a 60 mph drive, when another careless teenage driver missed the stop sign. The damage compared from his BMW to the Model S was enormous. The BMW’s entire right side was damaged, while the Model S was only scratches on the front.
Ellon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors also commented that the Model S is been in production for six years, and they have zero record of deaths and serious injuries. That’s a proof that the Tesla car is the safest on the road.
The winter driving with a Tesla car is also, redefined. The carmaker finds its own market to be the best for now in the Northern European countries, whose winters are very long. A costumer from Norway explained that his Model S is incredible for driving on roads that have fresh fallen snow for up to seven inches. The car performs very satisfactorily on low temperatures. It doesn’t have a problem turning on and off, and it can be heated before the ride since everything is operated through an iPhone app. No more worries about removing snow and scratching the windows! The car can be heated instantly; making sure the drive is safe and secure. The driving range is twice as greater than a normal car, which makes it very efficient for having longer trips.
Tesla’s cars are not just about safety. The Model S has so much space because there are two trunks – on the front, where originally there is an engine, and on the back, just like everybody’s car trunk. It could fit drums of a professional drummer, furniture, large objects that fit only in an SUV
It seems that Tesla Motors is pretty good at accomplishing Nikola Tesla’s dream, as their priorities are big in safety, space and using no fuel. Using an invention is not always just about what it can do, but what can someone do with it.

Alien: Isolation releasing in October

At Rezzed 2014 this weekend, developers Creative Assembly have announced the release date for their upcoming Aliens video game.

Alien: Isolation has been dated for October 7, 2014 on all platforms - PC, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation 4.
The title is a first-person survival horror experience that will focus on capturing the horror and tension evoked by Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic film. On a decommissioned trading station in the fringes of space, fear and panic have gripped the inhabitants. Players find themselves in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger as a Xenomorph is stalking and killing deep in the shadows.

Microsoft Set to Make an Impact in 2014

Ever since Satya Nadella has donned the cap of the CEO at Microsoft (MSFT) tables have turned in the tech-giant’s favor. Things seem to be shaping up for a very bright Fiscal 2014. When things have not gone well in MSFT’s favor for past few days, things have now started to change. As much as quality and care of design language is natural to Apple (AAPL), the ability to persist through growing pains and breakthrough to profitability is natural to Microsoft. Experts are of the view that Nadella is probably the best thing to have happened to MSFT so far. This is so because of his long innings with the company. His experience as the company’s vice president of the company’s Cloud and Enterprise group will definitely come in handy in his stint as the CEO.
The Performance
The Cloud Services revenue for the company grew by an astounding $315million or 107%. This is owed to the hugely successful Commercial Office 365 which yielded higher revenues. One more thing to look forward too is the launch of Office for iPad. This has clear sent clear indications that the revenues for Microsoft's Devices & Consumer Licensing division can grow revenues and profit year-over-year. During FY2014 Q2, Office revenue declined $244 million or 24%, reflecting the transition of customers to Office 365 Home Premium as well as continued softness in the consumer PC market. The iPad’s is a growing market with oodles of revenue. This therefore more than makes up for the softening markets for the now unwanted PCs. For the record, in the fiscal quarter that ended on December 28, 2013 Apple sold 26 million iPads. There lies gold for MSFT. Making use of this ever increasing market cap of the iPads, MSFT can hit a jackpot. What is even more impressive is that Microsoft managed to get into the iPad market first before Google introduced its own suite of enterprise focused offerings.
MSFT’s Performance in the Rest of the World
Microsoft’s latest strategy seems to be striking deals with fast growing Indian mobile phone makers. A rumored deal with Micromax is currently doing the rounds. This, the company thinks will save them more cash rather than upgrading their Windows Phone.
The company has also decided to go ahead with the launch of its much awaited Xbox One that comes with the “Titan Fall”. This is company’s latest strategy to capture the advanced gaming market where Sony’s PS4 is ruling the scene. This is why the company has decided to price it at par with PS4. This was evident when Microsoft cut the prices to its Titan Fall XBox One bundle to $449 in its Microsoft stores and other retailers. This boosted sales of Xbox One by 96% over a week in the UK.
With Satya Nadella at the helm, there’d be no stopping Microsoft. Satya’s efficient policies to channelize Microsoft’s huge resources will drive it past many a top performing companies. A couple of deals with fast growing Indian OEMs and the deal with Apple for an Office Suite for iPads are surely going to bolster the growth in revenues. The investor’s can put their money in MSFT stocks as it looks to be the safest now.

Facebook drones to expand global internet access

Facebook is working on solar-powered drones to deliver and improve internet access around the world.
The social network unveiled its new Connectivity Lab, which includes experts from Nasa, and was described as a team working on “new aerospace and communications technologies” with the overall aim of expanding global internet access.
The company’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, said in a post on his personal Facebook page: “In our effort to connect the whole world with Internet.org, we’ve been working on ways to beam internet to people from the sky.
“Today, we’re sharing some details of the work Facebook’s Connectivity Lab is doing to build drones, satellites and lasers to deliver the internet to everyone.”
In a video post on the Facebook website, Yael Maguire from the social network spoke about the different ways the company is looking at extending the reach of existing Internet connections.
“We’re looking at a new type of plane architecture that flies at roughly 20,000m, because that’s a point where winds are at their lowest, it’s above commercial airliners, it’s even above the weather, and actually it can stay in the air for months at a time. These planes are solar-powered and they sit there and circle around, and have the ability to broadcast internet down.”
Zuckerberg also announced the industry in Britain was now part of the project.
“Today we are also bringing on key members of the team from Ascenta, a small UK-based company whose founders created early versions of Zephyr, which became the world’s longest flying solar-powered unmanned aircraft. They will join our team working on connectivity aircraft.”
The new project is an extension of the Internet.org group which Facebook helped found in 2013 along with other major technology companies like Samsung and Nokia, with the final goal of bringing the Internet to the parts of the world without access.
According to the group, two thirds of the world are without access to the web, and bringing wider access would lead to “humanity firing on all cylinders” for the first time.
The launch of Facebook’s Connectivity Lab follows a similar move from Google with the creation of Google X, a group which is responsible for the development of both Google Glass and the smart contact lenses that were announced in January. These lenses can measure glucose levels in the tear ducts, and could be used to monitor conditions like diabetes.
Facebook offered no details on how far advanced the project was, or any timeframe for completion.

Google Wants Us To Know How They Respond To A U.S. Search Warrant For Data

Google takes privacy seriously, and so do we as users. While online privacy is important and it’s important to know how things are handled so you can feel secure, it still sucks to have to broach these issues. In an age like today where virtually everything about out personal lives is floating around out there online, it can be good to understand that should the scenario ever come up where a US search warrant would be issued requesting information on you, or someone you know, or any random person that has a Google account, how Google would handle that entire process and make sure that they are as compliant as they can be within the confines of the law, but also protect your privacy and information as much as they can.
Google has been in the news plenty as of late in regards to privacy and collected data, and interestingly enough most of that also involves the government. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Google wants to reassure users that privacy is no laughing matter to them and, in this video that they posted today they depict how the process of a US search warrant requesting data on a particular user would play out. It’s a friendly little video and definitely puts things into perspective of how things go down, and of course it has that unique Googley touch that you would expect to come from the search giant. The video isn’t too long, only about three and half minutes, but if you’re curious and have a few minutes of time to spare you should definitely check it out.
The basic idea is simple. If the US government is requesting data on a certain person, they go and retrieve a search warrant, which in turn gets taken to Google, who has to verify and check out the warrant, then make sure that all the data being requested in the warrant is relevant to what the government really needs. Eventually once everything is verified Google supplies relevant data and thus the process is finished. While the video is entertaining to watch and informative, the only people need really worry about this are probably those who are doing things they shouldn’t be.