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Tesla Prediction!

6th January 2017/in Gadgets / Tech, Technology/by billywright

Dash cam footage from the Netherlands from a Tesla driver shows the car’s autopilot function predicting an accident before anyone saw it coming.

In the clip below you can see a bunch of cars travelling down the A2 highway in the Netherlands. It is here where the ‘Forward Collision Warning’ on the Tesla beeps and the car is brought to a halt by the emergency braking system. Moments later a crash occurs.

Incredibly the Tesla was able to predict the crash but also recognize what was coming two cars ahead of itself.

Tesla announced in September 2016 that an upgrade to it’s autopilot feature would rely heavily on this feature. With the update being rolled out to it’s first generation of autopilot hardware.

“The most significant upgrade to Autopilot will be the use of more advanced signal processing to create a picture of the world using the onboard radar,”

@elonmusk Finally the right one. pic.twitter.com/2fspGMUoWf

— Hans Noordsij (@HansNoordsij) December 27, 2016

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Amazon Alexa Gone WILD!

6th January 2017/in Gadgets / Tech, Technology/by billywright

People love the Amazon Echo but it seems people are loving the smaller Echo Dot with it being the top selling device on Amazon (US) since November 1st.

People are taking time to learn the device as the device learns them – sometimes the device doesn’t always understand what you’re asking it.

In the video below a small boy asks Alexa to play a song……he and his family get something completely different!

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Picture of Marcus Bronzy from the How To Kill An Hour Podcast

Episode 142 Taxi Droney

6th January 2017/in Shows/by billywright

Who Sampled!

5th January 2017/in Entertainment, Games/by billywright

As DJ’s a lot of the guys often find themselves asking “what track is that” or “Who sampled that” well that question is no longer needed to be asked as we have found a really cool app that does all that for you it’s called “WhoSampled”

With this app you are able to discover what a track is and who sampled it. You can scan your own Apple Music/Spotify and iTunes libraries for lists of samples, covers and remixes all within the app.

The app then pulls up a lot of information on the tracks for example:

Where was this song sampled?

Who covered my favorite artists?

What remixes were made for this track?

The best music discovery tool for all DJ’s out there or anyone who is deep into music!

The app even has a “Now Playing” feature if you’re on iOS allows you to switch from your music player to WhoSampled to discover all the musical connections for the song you’re listening to.

To download Who Sampled please click here Apple / Android

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Vivino Wine Sampler

5th January 2017/in Games/by billywright

Vivino is like Shazam but for Wines.

Instead of playing a track to Shazam all you got to do is take a photo of any wine label and the app will pull down a load of information about the product for example, pricing, wine merchants in your area, trending wines, deals, ratings, reviews and food pairing suggestions. The app even has an offline mode which saves the images and then uploads them for information when you have an internet connection.

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To Download Vivino Wine Sampler please click here Apple

Monument Valley

5th January 2017/in Entertainment, Games/by billywright

Episode 141 Semi Situation

5th January 2017/in Shows/by billywright

Solar Panel Road!

3rd January 2017/in Gadgets / Tech, Technology/by billywright

What Marcus has been saving for WEEKS has actually come true. (Who knew he’d be such a tastemaker for great tech!)

France has just launched it’s first solar panel road. French Ecology Minister Ségolène Royal launched the road December last year in an attempt to increase the ways in which the country uses renewable energy and reduce it’s greenhouse gas emissions. The road took 5 years to develop and cost $5.2Million dollars. The road includes 30,000 square footage of solar panels which are coated with a clear silicon resin which is able to resist the impact of constant flow of traffic.

They won’t be rolled out across the country just yet as they are still incredibly expensive to manufacture in large quantities. France however have stated that if costs can be kept low and the efficiency of the panels up then they could install them across another 1,000 kilometers of its roads and then who knows what the future holds for their roads and beyond.

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