As The PC Industry Plummets, Intel Manages To Beat Estimates In Fourth Quarter Earnings

by Aaron Tilley

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich delivers a keynote address at CES 2016 in Las Vegas (Photo credit: Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Chip maker Intel INTC +2.58% on Thursday reported financial results that beat Wall Street estimates.

THIS FULLY AUTONOMOUS DRONE TAXI IS YOUR TRAFFIC-JAM DREAM COME TRUE

By Drew Prindle

Yup, you read that headline right. A Chinese UAV company named Ehang just unveiled the world’s first autonomous flying taxi.

The plainly-named 184 drone is essentially a giant quadcopter designed to carry a single passenger — and it needs no pilot. Inside the cockpit, there are absolutely zero controls. No joystick, no steering wheel, no buttons, switches, or control panels — just a seat and a small tablet stand.

What is Code? Why Are Programmers So Intense About Languages?

Let’s Begin

A computer is a clock with benefits. They all work the same, doing second-grade math, one step at a time: Tick, take a number and put it in box one. Tick, take another number, put it in box two. Tick, operate (an operation might be addition or subtraction) on those two numbers and put the resulting number in box one. Tick, check if the result is zero, and if it is, go to some other box and follow a new set of instructions.

How Does Code Become Software?
We know that a computer is a clock with benefits, and that software starts as code, but how?
We know that someone, somehow, enters a program into the computer and the program is made of

Chinese cities are using this “mist cannon” to shoot pollution from the sky Take that, smog.

BY May Shi

With many cities in northeast China smothered by thick smog in recent months, the widespread use of face masks and air purifiers comes as no surprise. But some local governments have turned to a less familiar tool for combating air pollution: the mist cannon.