There you are, sitting at a restaurant. You look over and see that the person next to you has ordered the roast duck. You see them carve off a succulent chunk of it and pop it into their mouth. It looks delicious so you order it yourself, salivating in anticipation. But when your duck arrives, you try to cut into it and your knife slides right off of the surface. You bear down as hard as you can and it barely makes a scratch in the surface....

It’s been almost ten years since Elon Musk brought hyperloop technology back into modern public consciousness with a 2013research paper. His Space X sponsoredThe Hyperloop Pod Competitionspawningmany ideas for the hyperloop technology in development today, with some teams scaling to become fully functional startups with significant funding. However, there is yet to be a commercially available hyperloop, and numerous companies are working on proprietary designs, mainly in stealth mode. Every so often, they announce a partnership,release a video, or publish a feasibility study or research paper....

In a Sherlock worthy snag, Business Insider editors have gotten their paws on “The AOL Way,” a full on 58-page long company plan to turn AOL into a media empire. AOL CEO, Tim Armstrong wants AOL editorial, which includes TechCrunch,whom they purchased last fall, to become an e-pulp mill ceaselessly churning out stories that are optimized for search engines and profitability above all else. He wants to increase its stories per day from 2,000 to 15,000; bump pageviews per story to jump from 1,500 to 7,000; increase video stories to go from being 4% of all stories produced to 70%....

3D technologies have been all over the media during the past year and a lot companies are exploring their options to enhance the experience offered by their products. AppleInsider today hascome acrossa patent application revealed by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office from Apple entitled “Systems and Methods for an Imaging System Using Multiple Image Sensors.” that describes a system that would capture, process and render 3D images with two attached cameras....

Apple has made huge strides in Chinaover the last two years, to the point that new CEO Tim Cook lauded the country as “very key” to the company’s success when, as COO, he spoke on an earnings call earlier this year. This undoubted progress is due to the simple fact that more Chinese are buying Apple products, including iPhones, in greater numbers ever before. So has Apple overcome China’s notorious counterfeit mobile phone market?...