Tastes vary, but I can confirm the new NSX looks very, very nice on the road. Unlike the GT-R, which is undoubtedly the least noticeable supercar in traffic.

Sounds like in N, the phone won’t have to be stationary: just having the screen off will be enough to activate Doze if you want it that way.

I especially like the chrome grips! Real rideable bike right there. This thing has to be mainly a show piece...

I am really excited about this bike! I test-rode the regular Scout and loved it, but its 40 mpg would be painful; hopefully this one will be a bit more efficient. The white paint and reduced chrome on the Sixty are gorgeous, too. As weird as it sounds, this could be competing with the Yamaha MT-10 for my money in a…

I think these finally look nicer than the old round ones!

That is exactly correct. Explosive welding doesn’t work well at a small scale. Magnetic pulse welding works at a similar scale to this, but cannot produce workpiece velocities as high as this. This is just a new tool for impact welding, using a technique that has been around for a while in other forms (rapid…

The interfaces are similar in principle: both involve plastic deformation at the interface. A stir weld is more mixed-looking, though; an impact weld typically has a wavy interlocking interface (like this one) due to Kelvin-Helmholtz instability at the impact interface.

“There is no right way to enjoy riding.” Something most of us tend to forget. I miss having a cruiser quite a bit! 90% of my riding would be more enjoyable if I still did.

Ooh, that Thundercat - heavy as hell to pick back up, I know too well.

I mean, you’re right that not everyone needs more than 16GB. My music library is probably bigger than a lot of people’s. It’s just a rip-off that there is such a ridiculous price jump on something that costs the manufacturer basically nothing to add. Then again, if 16GB models are being sold for less than the profit…

No, it’s a marketing strategy that lets them advertise for a cheaper base price while still selling the majority for more. For an extra 16GB to cost $50 more is a rip-off. For any phone to only have 16GB in 2015 is a rip-off.

I’m a materials engineer working on vehicle lightweighting... I inhaled a little coffee when I read that line!

Even worse - I’ve seen a Yamaha 600 here in Columbus with an extended swingarm. Yeah, great drag bike there... stupid.

I never thought it was a necessary feature, but after having bought a Transformer (and running the 10 preview), I now swipe fruitlessly at my non-touch work laptop out of habit. It really is convenient for scrolling through long documents, papers, and webpages. Maybe less so if your work involves Photoshop or Excel…

“OK Google” also works without any wait. Not sure what the author is talking about there.

True! There is an important difference between strength, or hardness, and “toughness” of materials. Your ring is a good example - high stiffness and high tensile strength, but poor toughness (the amount of deformation it can endure before breaking).

2005 Yamaha YZF600R. I had 10,000 miles on a Honda Shadow and was dying for a sportier bike. I test rode this at a shady “not-a-dealer” that posted ads on Craigslist, fell in love and traded him my Shadow the next morning. After 20,000 miles, I still love how it looks and sounds (stock can, tyvm), in spite of the…

No, hardness and tensile strength are related - both are due to movement of dislocations (lines of defects) in the material’s crystal structure.

You can turn off notifications for just one - I think Inbox even pops up a dialogue to turn off Gmail notifications when you install it.

Pretty sure jeffco was trying to point out that Tyler wrote “flack jacket” instead of “flak jacket” in the second paragraph. Reading comprehension... I can haz it.