Japan Display Considering Sale of Display Factory to Apple, Sharp: Report According to new reports coming from the Nikkei Asian Review, Japan Display is considering selling off its main display manufacturing factory to Apple, and Sharp for around $820 million. The Japan Display factory in question is based in the Ishikawa Prefecture and has reportedly been shut since July this year due to poor sales. The company has also been restructuring itself ever since Apple, one of its main customers, switched focus from LCD panels manufactured in the plant to mostlyOLED panels for its new iPhones....

Microsoft is Building a Grammarly-like Chrome Extension Microsoft appears to be working on a spelling and grammar checking tool similar to Grammarly for Chrome. Believed to be spotted first by Twitter userFlorian, the feature allows you to correct all your grammatical mistakes on the fly. New microsoft extension for chrome.pic.twitter.com/LjsVpq8gn8 — Florian (@flobo09)December 21, 2019 According to the screenshots posted by the Twitter user, the extension checks the spelling, grammar, and will offer “refinements” – could be alternate suggestions conveying the meaning better....

My Wiki is a War Zone with a Zillion Edits: Elon Musk In a recent tweet, Tesla CEO Elon Musk mentioned how he felt about his Wikipedia page. He looked up his Wikipedia page after years and called it “a war zone with a zillion edits”. In addition to it, he mentioned that someone had added “investor” to his profile and requested to delete it. He even made it clear that he does not invest at all....

Tesla Secures $1.6 Billion Loan for Shanghai Gigafactory In a disclosure filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday, Tesla revealed that it secured $1.6 billion in financing from a consortium of Chinese banks to finance its business in the country. While some of the money will be invested to constructing the Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai, the rest will go towards the repayment of an earlier loan. The lenders include China Construction Bank, Agricultural Bank of China, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the company said....

The Guardian Interviews Zuckerbot, a Bot Based on Mark Zuckerberg As you might already be aware, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is not interview-friendly.The Guardian, however, found a clever workaround to get an exclusive interview with him – the Zuckerbot. The Guardianteamed up withBotnik Studiosto create Zuckerbot, a predictive keyboard trained on all interviews, speeches, blog posts, and testimony of Mark Zuckerberg over the last three years. After training Zuckerbot, the team had avast vocabulary of the Facebook CEO comprising of over 200,000 words....

This is What Happens in an Internet Minute in 2019 Have you ever wondered how much internet activity happens in a single minute? Well, this infographic attempts to shed some light on it for a better perspective. The infographic is compiled byLori LewisandChadd Callahanbased on the online activity of billions of people across the world. Notably,Google search processes about 3.8 million search queriesper minute. This figure was 0.1 million lower last year at 3....

Watch MARTY, a Driverless Car Drift a Challenging Track One of the major concerns people have over autonomous cars is regarding how well they perform in risky situations that could potentially lead to accidents. Engineers at Stanford’s Dynamic Design Lab have attempted to address that by teaching a driverless DeLorean (you might remember it fromBack to the Future) to drift around a complicated course involving a lot of turns. The vehicle is named MARTY – Multiple Actuator Research Testbed for Yaw, referencing the protagonist ofBack to the FutureMarty McFly....