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iOS 12 Concept: A Dream Of Grouped Notifications And More

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It’s time for something amazing, like a bundle notifications instead of a single notifications from one app. There have been lots of speculation about Apple iOS 12, the great news is that the grand unveiling of iOS 12 is just a few weeks away and there’s one feature on everybody’s wish list: grouped notifications. iOS 11’s notification screen is a mess when you get multiple notifications from the same app, but developer Matt Birchler at Birchtree. Brought up one of the more interesting ideas in Birchler mockups which involve grouped notifications and has created a simple concept that shows how Apple could make the lock screen notifications so much better. “Bundling notifications from a single app together means your brain doesn’t have to phase shift all the time when scrolling through your notifications,” Birchler writes in a blog post . “In this case, we have 4 messages from 2 people together in one space. This would normally take up far ...

Microsoft’s Surface Hub 2 Is Designed For An Office Of The Future

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Remember the Surface Hub? You probably won"t. Unlike Microsoft"s other PCs -- the Surface Pro, Book, Laptop and Studio -- the Hub was a giant and expensive device meant for workplace collaboration. It has never featured in any commercials or turn heads at Best Buy. But yet Microsoft admits that it only sold to more than 5,000 businesses in 25 countries, with more than half of Fortune 100 companies already own a Surface Hub, and of course it’s the most popular Surface device for enterprise customers. Surface Hub, it’s successor Surface Hub 2 was pre-announced by Microsoft in March, The news was little more than a heads-up that refreshed hardware was planned, but more info was expected during "first half of this year." Moving forward,  Microsoft has officially announced the first preview of Surface Hub 2 . The device is a 50.5-inch "more than 4K" display with a familiar 3:2 aspect ratio. There is also a 4K video camera, built-in speakers, a new Surface Pen ...

Google Co-Founder Larry Page Backed Flying Taxi "Cora" Flies In New Zealand

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We first learned back in 2016 that Google founder and Alphabet (Google’s parent company) Larry Page had two "flying car" extends underway , but there was no official statement at the time until we started hearing about tests last year, today it"s a great opportunity to meet Cora. The "air taxi" created by Page"s Kitty Hawk startup , the electric flying "car" is planned for use as a major aspect of a transportation benefit rather than deal to singular users (probably because of the regulations and infrastructure that may come with such innovations). It"s worked to utilise self-flying programming, and uses 12 lift fans for vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) like a helicopter, so there"s no requirement for a runway. In the air, Cora is able to move at about 177Km/hr at about 3,000 feet. The air craft has three free flight-PCs and can keep operating just fine regardless of whether one goes down, while every rotor works autonomously and ju...

Elon Musk"s Boring Company To Focus On Hyperloop System For Pedestrians And Cyclists

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Elon Musk"s new startup, the Boring Company will focus on hyperloop and tunnels designed for pedestrians and cyclists. Initially, the thought behind the Boring Company was to make a system of passages in which cars would stop on electric sleds to be propelled at top speed inside these tunnels.   [xyz-ihs snippet="Elon-Musk-Boring-Company"] But the concept grew to incorporate another Elon Musk idea; the hyperloop , a comparable transportation framework that additionally incorporates a direct framework to diminish the pressure inside the tunnels all together for the sled, or more probable "units", to movement at considerably quicker speeds. The video below is the original idea the Boring Company provided last summer. [xyz-ihs snippet="Boring-company-initial-idea"] The bus (seen quickly in the first Boring Company video) is planned to convey individuals and bicycles, and Musk said that Boring Company"s loop system would have thousands of small stati...