Macrumors.com:

Audi and Nvidia have announced they are working together to bring a fully self-driving car to the consumer market by the year 2020.

The announcement came on Wednesday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, as the two companies outlined their vision for a fully autonomous vehicle. German automaker Audi hopes to be one of the first automakers to achieve the feat, and is banking on U.S. graphics chipmaker Nvidia’s artificial intelligence car computing platform, which uses deep learning to negotiate complex real-road conditions.

I just think this is a bad use of resources. Unlike aviation where we have 2 big players working on complex problems here we have 30 tech and car companies working on their own solutions and duplicating all the work all the time. On top of that, there is no evidence that lawmakers will allow the final product.

The Verge on Snapchat’s new Spectacles product:

But for now, it’s time to play, experiment, and create new things. Adopting new technologies is easy when they’re actually fun to play with, and at $129.95 this technology should be fairly accessible for those who can find the vending machine robot.

In an area where trying too much has been the death knell for too many products, Snapchat is keeping things very simple and streamlined with Spectacles. The polish is in the details, but it’s all designed to create a fun, frictionless zone for people to do one very important thing: create and share.

Is there a market for 30 second low quality videos? Maybe. But at $130 they’re not that accessible, and even if they were much cheaper I still think they will be a big bust for Snapchat.

TheMacLife.com:

The Mac Life has today released a new series of Conor McGregor emojis for you to download in time for the fight. The app was designed by AppMoji Inc., the same company who designed emoji sets for the likes of Amber Rose, Steph Curry, Michael Phelps, among others.

The emojis capture various moments from Conor McGregor’s career, from raising the featherweight strap after knocking out José Aldo to hurling bottles at a press conference.

The Sun UK:

The software costs $1.99 on the App Store – and has dozens of images of McGregor pulling his famous poses and donning that iconic chin of beard.

Artists have also re-created the 28-year-old’s tattoos to perfection, with his gorilla and tiger tattoos sported on his torso.

There is also one of McGregor wearing a kilt, a crown, several of him flinging 100 dollar bills around, as well as one of him taking a selfie with his hands half-way down his shorts.

The MacMoji is available via iTunes.

Dieter Bohn, The Verge:

Earlier this year, Apple began a “voluntary exchange program” for USB-C cables that were designed alongside the original MacBook. And now it appears the company is silently updating that cable with a new, better version that still has the exact same model number. According to K, the new cable comes in a rectangular box (don’t buy one in a square box) and is the “best ‘charge’ cable I’ve ever seen.” (It also turns out that Apple is using different cables in its stores than it’s shipping to customers.)

But I’m not going to get into the minutiae of Apple’s exchange program nor the specs of its cables and chargers: the Google+ community is doing a fine job of that. Instead, I just want to point out how much fun it is to watch an experienced engineer essentially do forensic analysis on consumer products. It’s fun even though I know that all this work is only necessary because so many of those products are legitimately dangerous to plug into your devices. Even the simplest thing — delivering a charge over a wire — turns out to be insanely complicated and filled with corporate politics.

If diving into a bunch of Google+ pages isn’t your idea of a fun distraction, can I interest you in a USB-C Reddit thread? Perhaps a spreadsheet of tested, safe USB-C cables? How about an Android Common Compatibility Document that Android Police found? It detailing Google’s “STRONGLY RECOMMENDED” suggestion that USB-C Android devices adhere to the standard and don’t mess with pin-outs or voltages. That doesn’t sound like fun to you?