je.st
news
Tag: torn
Why electric car maker Tesla has torn up its patents
2014-06-16 16:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: "Yesterday," writes Tesla CEO Elon Musk in a blog post, "there was a wall of Tesla patents in the lobby of our Palo Alto headquarters. That is no longer the case. They have been removed, in the spirit of the open source movement, for the advancement of electric vehicle technology." In short, California-based Tesla is opening up its patents to competitors. Like so many of Musk's ideas, it sounds crazy but might just be brilliant. Tesla, Musk explains, was founded with the goal of taking electric...
Tags: car
electric
maker
patents
After Long Wait, Captain America Fans Watch as Tickets Are Torn Up
2014-03-21 20:52:04| Toys - Topix.net
Bleeding Cool editor-in-chief Hannah Means-Shannon attended a special sneak preview of Captain America: The Winter Soldier last night at the AMC Loews Lincoln Center.
Valves Steam Machine torn down, reveals expensive, well designed, easily upgradable gaming PC
2013-12-19 19:15:43| Extremetech
Those dastardly devils at iFixit have managed to get their mitts on one of Valve's 300 Steam Machine prototypes and, of course, torn it down. Inside is a quad-core Haswell Core i5-4570, a Zotac GTX 780 graphics card, 16GB of Crucial Ballistix Sport (PC3 12800) RAM, and a 1TB 5400 RPM Seagate hard drive. If you wanted to build your own SteamOS-powered doppelganger, it would set you back around $1300 to match Valve's Steam Machine part-for-part.
Tags: pc
designed
easily
machine
Two mothers 'Torn' by loss
2013-10-24 22:59:15| Real Estate - Topix.net
Two mothers, grieving over their dead teenage sons, bond and then begin to wonder if the other's son wasn't responsible for their child's death in "Torn," a modest, emotionally lacking melodrama built around big themes and hot-button issues.
Whats Wrong Here? Hint: Torn to Pieces
2013-10-03 03:37:07| Electrical Construction & Maintenance
By Russ LeBlanc, NEC Consultant NEC rules on drilling holes and notches in wood framing members read more