Mercedes’ next vehicle is a 20-foot luxury electric Maybach that you’ll “want to drive yourself”

A vision of the future of conspicuous consumption. (Mercedes-Benz)

 
  The future of luxury cars isn’t all about flashy vehicles that drive themselves, at least that’s what Mercedes and Maybach want the super-rich to believe.

Don’t breakup in person – there is an App for that

Can’t handle the thought of rejecting someone to his or her face? Luckily technology is the best wing man.

Ghostbot is a new app that detects incoming texts from a person you’re hoping to not communicate with and sends an unenthusiastic automated response on your behalf.

Snapchat's cool new feature: a new ‘Memories’ feature that shows it’s growing up #snapchatmemories

Snapchat’s new Memories feature in actionMore


Snapchat is growing up. Well, sort of. The ephemeral messaging app has added a new feature, Memories, that allows you to save your snaps and stories for posterity.

Apple's new MacOS Sierra may have just made some computer obsolete

Tucked into the pile of flashy features is showing the world this week at its WWDC event comes the news that a massive number of Macs are effectively on death row.

The Sierra version of MacOS, Apple’s laptop and desktop operating system, makes its debut in the fall, but will not support many of the computers the company sold in 2007, 2008, and 2009. A slide at the conference briefly revealed a list of compatible models. Ars Technica’s eagle eyes recorded the list, below. Everything else will be dropped like third period French.

MacBook (late 2009 and later)

iMac (late 2009 and later)

MacBook Air (2010 and later)

MacBook Pro (2010 and later)

Mac Mini (2010 and later)

Mac Pro (2010 and later)

The requirements to run the latest versions of Apple’s operating systems hadn’t changed that much in the past few years, and Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite, and El Capitan could all run on many computers—even iMacs and MacBook Pros from 2007, according to ComputerWorld.

Depending on what kind of user you are, and whether you care about the new features in new software, you might not be particularly affected. But being left behind always ends the same way. Security updates stop with older models—this has already happened for operating systems older than Mavericks—and systems get slower and slower, and people generally crack and get new hardware. As ComputerWorld’s Gregg Keizer noted, people have raised eyebrows at the curious fact that Sierra won’t run on more-powerful MacBook Pros from 2009 but will be compatible with regular MacBooks from the same year—which suggests Apple’s trying to get the people who could once afford the Pro to buy a new Mac this year.

Amidst all of this is the fact that many people are using traditional computers less and less as phones and tablets have taken larger stakes in our lives. Even for people who prefer a good old-fashioned keyboard, users who mostly stick to email, streaming, and internet browsing have found themselves wondering whether a $1,099 ultra-fast computer was worth it when viable options in the form of Chromebooks, Android and Windows devices are available for less than $350.

With many Macs slated for execution, this value question is going to come up a lot more as people take a long hard look at their computer use. Owning a Mac could soon become like buying a Ferrari for grocery store runs.

SOURCE: YAHOO

written by Ethan Wolff-Mann for Yahoo

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Intel may have totally sunk Microsoft's latest plan to conquer smartphones

The Microsoft Continuum dock adapter for the Lumia 950.

 Microsoft's phone business is struggling: Sales of its flagship Lumia brands are down 72% over the same time last year.

But Microsoft has been urging calm, dropping lots of hints that the long-rumored Surface Phone, said to be due in 2017, will change everything. Microsoft has even said that it could put Apple and the iPhone on the defensive.It's a nice idea.

But Intel, one of Microsoft's oldest and best partners, is having its own difficulties breaking into mobile. As a result of those troubles, Intel might have made a decision that could sink the Surface Phone and its rumored best feature — the ability to run standard Windows desktop software— before it's even officially announced.

Major tech breakthrough iPhone users have been waiting for is finally here

Why is the iPhone 6s Plus so gigantic and unwieldy when Samsung's Galaxy S7 edge is wonderfully compact and manageable? Both smartphones have screens that measure 5.5 inches diagonally, so they should be reasonably comparable in size. But alas, the Galaxy S7 edge is a pleasure to use with one hand while the iPhone 6s Plus is far too huge for most users to comfortably manage.

Apple officially killed one of Steve Jobs' favorite projects

Before Steve Jobs rejoined Apple in the 1990s, one of the flagship projects at his company, NeXT, was WebObjects, a set of tools for making what were called at the time "internet applications." Today we just call them websites.

On an Apple listserv on Tuesday, Java developer Hugi Thordarson emailed a blast saying that Apple had confirmed to him that WebObjects was officially declared dead.