The Unprecedented Explosion of Smartphones in Myanmar

The Unprecedented Explosion of Smartphones in Myanmar

Outside the offices of an internet startup called nexlabs, a snarl of honking cars and rickshaws grinds to a standstill on a trash-strewn street lined with crumbling buildings. Inwards, however, the scene could be straight out of Silicon Valley.

Programmers in t-shirts and jeans tap away at laptops underneath posters exhorting them to “Innovate” and “Dance Like Crazy.” Local request for their smartphone apps and websites is exploding, and in the last twelve months they’ve inked marketing contracts with multi-nationals like Samsung Electronics Co. Contine reading

The five Largest Winners Of The Electrified Car Boom

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The five Thickest Winners Of The Electrified Car Boom

We now live in a world where upstart Tesla Motors Inc. is worth more than General Motors (GM).

The fresh market heroes are heroes of an energy revolution that is putting electrical vehicles into the mainstream, building battery gigafactories to power them, discovering and developing fresh deposits of lithium and cobalt to feed the revolution, and taking futuristic tech over the finish line so we can have things like self-driving cars. Contine reading

Tesla Model X owners finding car doors won – t shut, windows won – t close, TechCrunch

Tesla Model X owners finding car doors won’t shut, windows won’t close

Earlier this month, Tesla Motors recalled Two,700 Model X cars to fix a third-row seat latch that could permit the seat to fold forward during a collision.

But owners of the $138,000 sport utility vehicle — whose many features include falcon-wing doors, a 200-plus-mile battery range and proximity sensors that prevent it from coming into contact with other cars — are being confronted with more instantaneously irksome issues, including car doors that all of a sudden won’t shut and windows that won’t close. Contine reading