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Mercedes will reportedly challenge Tesla with four new EVs (confirmed) Executives from Mercedes-Benz haven't been coy about the company's EV plans -- it wants to go head-to-head with Tesla. [Read more...] 'Jason Bourne' is embarrassingly dumb about tech Jason Bourne, the latest film featuring Matt Damon's amnesiac assassin, isn't just a bad movie -- it's woefully ignorant about almost every aspect of technology. [Read more...] HP Chromebook 13 review: a great laptop that doesn't come cheap Just over a year ago, you basically had two options for buying a Chromebook: Spend $999 on Google's excellent but overpriced Pixel or buy an inexpensive laptop that was inevitably compromised in one way or another. [Read more...] NASA celebrates Curiosity's fourth year on Mars with a game The glitch that shut down Curiosity in July was thankfully a temporary issue, else NASA would have mourned its loss rather than celebrating the rover's fourth year on Mars by releasing a game. [Read more...] NIH might start funding human-animal chimera studies The NIH could start funding experiments that inject human stem cells in animal embryos to create hybrids called "chimeras." It issued a blanked ban on chimera research last year, but it looks like the organization changed its mind after examining the science behind it and talking to lead experts in the field. [Read more...] Amazon launches 'Prime Air' with a cargo plane, not a drone The first time we heard about Prime Air it was emblazoned on drones Jeff Bezos showed off for 60 Minutes in 2013. [Read more...] Beat the world at 'Forza' and drive away with a Ford Focus RS Your skills at driving supercars around on Forza's meticulously detailed racetracks could net you a real ride. [Read more...] Copyright © 2016 Aol Inc. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Engadget 410 Townsend St., Suite 450 San Francisco, CA 94107 Follow Engadget You are receiving this email because you opted in at engadget.com. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe from this newsletter.

7 stories you shouldn't miss

The next Google Maps update could show how bad the parking is Google's next iteration of its popular Maps app looks to be adding a whole bunch of new functions, if the recently released 9.34 beta is any indication. [Read more...] Tesla Model X: The official SUV of the future My eyeballs feel weird. It's the fault of Tesla's Ludicrous mode. With the feature enabled the Model X P90D is the world's fastest SUV -- launching from zero to 60 in 3.2 seconds. [Read more...] ICYMI: One Pen to rule all and video you can manipulate Today on In Case You Missed It: Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab formulated a way to interact with existing videos, so they can prod and move objects within the frame. [Read more...] University of Miami's sports VR app goes behind the scenes The Olympics aren't the only sports-in-VR news this week -- college athletics will take the (virtual) field too. [Read more...] Dust-sized wireless sensors could control prosthetics someday See that minuscule component in the image above? That's a wireless sensor, and someday, doctors could slip it into our bodies to monitor our organs like a microscopic Fitbit or even to give quadri- and paraplegics the power to control robotic arms or legs. [Read more...] Pepper the robot is ready to greet the great American public Pepper's resume is already packed with an impressive list of multinationals in both Japan and Asia, but now the robot is ready to meet and greet in English, specifically in San Francisco, where it'll be working inside tech retailer b8ta's flagship store. [Read more...] NASA maps the thawed parts of the Greenland ice sheet NASA has created the first map of the bottom of the Greenland ice sheet, showing which parts have begun thawing and which remain frozen as ever. [Read more...] Copyright © 2016 Aol Inc. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Engadget 410 Townsend St., Suite 450 San Francisco, CA 94107 Follow Engadget You are receiving this email because you opted in at engadget.com. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe from this newsletter.