Let’s play a guessing game. Shown here is a sneak peek at the rear view of a hardware demo being built specifically for the Hackaday Superconference in Pasadena this November 2-4. It’s sure to be a crowd pleaser when finished, but if you’re anything like us, studying what’s behind the finished face of a project…

As automotive companies shift their focus to software and services in the pursuit of self-driving cars, the impact to large manufacturing cities like Detroit could be drastic. The Wall Street Journal explores this “transformation without precedent” and poses the question: will tech leave Detroit in the dust? From the report: Auto makers point out that…

The Star Wars creator apparently paid a visit to the set of The Mandalorian. …read more Source:: CNet

Germany is backing a global minimum tax rate as Europe looks to levy tax notably on U.S. tech giants. “Europe is trying to devise a strategy to tax profits from the likes of Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and digital platforms such as YouTube and Airbnb which currently manage to keep fiscal exposure to a bare…

The billionaire businessman and the hit game had a brief but entertaining Twitter fight. …read more Source:: CNet

It’ll definitely have an in-display fingerprint scanner — and we know lots more. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader shares new work that could allow us to generate electricity using supercritical carbon dioxide. Ars Technica reports: The researchers involved in the new work, a large U.S.-based collaboration, focus on a composite material: tungsten and zirconium carbide. These have extremely high melting points: 3,700K for both materials. Both of them conduct heat…

We take an early look at what sets the iPhone XR apart from the XS. …read more Source:: CNet

Every day, we’re connecting more and more devices over the internet. No longer does a household have a single connected computer — there are smartphones, tablets, HVAC systems, deadbolts — you name it, it’s been connected. As the Internet of Things proliferates, it has become readily apparent that security is an issue in this space….

The new facility will be environmentally friendly and build vehicles on the all-electric MEB platform. …read more Source:: CNet