Update 1/27/17: The feature is now available in the full version of the app. This article has been updated to reflect this news. If you’ve ever taken longer to find a parking spot than you did driving somewhere, Google Maps might be able to help—or at least prepare you for a headache. Thanks to a new feature in the latest version of the app, you’ll now be able to tell how hard it will be to park once you arrive at your destination. The new feature is easy to miss. The next time you pull up driving directions, you’ll see…
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Credit: Intel MORE LIKE THIS VIDEO Intel’s next big Moore’s Law advance will be a 7-nm pilot plant it is establishing this year to explore the upcoming manufacturing process. The chipmaker announced it was establishing the pilot plant during an earnings call on Thursday. For decades, Moore’s Law has been the guiding light for Intel to make teenier, faster, and more power-efficient chips. The effort has helped PC makers continuously shrink laptops and mobile devices while adding longer battery life. Intel is trying to hang onto the long-standing observation as a way to push its chip technology forward. However, some…
I hope you like videos, because we have about a million of them this week. Launch trailers, announcement vids, Planet Coaster rides, the works. This week: A Dirt 4 teaser, Bossa’s new skateboarding turf war, Square Enix teaming up with Marvel, Ni No Kuni II on PC, the Pillars of Eternity documentary, the end of Star Wars recreated as a roller coaster, and so much more. This is your gaming news for the busiest week of January, a.k.a. January 23 to 27. Tony Hawk: American Paintland Bossa’s Worlds Adrift isn’t even released yet, but apparently the studio’s been working on…
Back in November China’s TENAA certified the upcoming LeEco Le X850 for sale in the country, though it still hasn’t launched. And now it looks like the same handset (or a slightly different version of it) was put through the paces of GFXBench, which as usual has resulted in a pretty complete listing of its specs on the benchmark’s website. The phone’s model number is said to be X85x, and the second “x” could obviously stand for “0”. Then again, GFXBench also calls it X10 as if that may be its name, so it’s unclear what’s going on here. Finally…
The Galaxy S7 edge outsold its smaller sibling, the S7. Now leaked schematics show us that the next gen phones will have even bigger screen, will we see the Galaxy S8 Plus outsell the smaller Galaxy S8? Our preliminary polling says no – if our math is right, the smaller S8 will put an S7 edge-size screen into an S7-size body. And it won 35% of votes, leading the S8 Plus (6.3” screen in an S7 edge body). Of course, there are other considerations that might swing the results. The current consensus is that the Galaxy S8 Plus will have…
LG tried something novel with the G5 but recent leaks show it’s changing course for the LG G6. Gone is the removable battery and gone are the bezels (the headphone jack is reportedly safe and sound). The LG G6 is rumored to have an usual 2:1 screen (well, extra wide screens are not that unusual for LG) that will cover more than 90% of the front. LG officially confirmed that the G6 will be waterproof in addition to slimming down the bezels. Not officially confirmed yet, but reports suggest it will drop the modular design but will keep the dual…
The data usually cited by China to showcase the globalization of the yuan showed a decline in the currency’s use last year, marking a setback for the strategy and reflecting a different priority in this year’s government work agenda. The value of international yuan payments, released by payments processor Swift on Thursday, fell 29.5 percent in 2016, while the yuan’s share as an international payments currency dropped by 0.63 percentage points to 1.68 percent at the year’s end. The Chinese yuan, which was the fifth-most-used currency worldwide in 2015, was overtaken by the Canadian dollar last year. The U.S. dollar…
China’s expansive overseas infrastructure lending through the One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative could create new asset-quality risks for its banking system, Fitch Ratings warned. Launched in 2013, the Xi Jinping-backed initiative aims to revive the ancient Silk Road and strengthen Chinese ties with more than 60 countries across Asia, Europe and East Africa through infrastructure, trade and investment. The attraction to China is opening up vast areas of Central Asia that still retain trade links established centuries ago to routes in South Asia, Persia, Arabia and Africa, but now often lack the modern infrastructure needed to attract large-scale investment…
19 SHARES Ethan Miller | Getty Images Toshiba’s board on Friday approved plans to make its core memory chip business a separate company and seek outside investment in it, aiming to avoid being crippled by an upcoming multi-billion dollar writedown for its U.S. nuclear business. The drastic step will be only one of many tough choices the Japanese conglomerate must take to survive, as the proceeds are set to cover just part of the charge for cost overruns at a newly acquired U.S. power plant construction business – a figure that local media has put at 680 billion yen ($6…
Stocks to Watch: January 27, 2017 Friday, 27 Jan 2017 | 7:39 AM ET | 01:10 Just Watched… Stocks to Watch: January 27, 2017 Share this video http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000588256 Watch Next… Cancel AK Steel erases gains Check out which companies are making headlines before the bell: Honeywell — Honeywell matched forecasts with adjusted quarterly profit of $1.74 per share, but revenue fell below estimates on aerospace business weakness. Honeywell did reaffirm its prior 2017 earnings outlook. General Dynamics — The defense contractor beat estimates by 10 cents with adjusted quarterly profit of $2.62 per share, though revenue fell below forecasts. The company…