All The News You Missed Over The Weekend: The Electric Porsche Is A Go

Good morning! It’s a busy world out there. All The News You Missed Overnight Over The Weekend gives you a guide to everything techy that happened while you were sleeping.

Porsche’s Electric Mission E Is Poised To Whoop The Tesla Model S
In September, Porsche showed off the Mission E, a fully electric and fully beautiful concept made to dethrone Tesla motors as the EV industry’s king of cool. Today, Porsche announced it’s investing more than a billion dollars to bring the Mission E to production.

TAG Heuer’s Android smartwatch is (relatively) popular
TAG Heuer’s $1,500 Connected smartwatch may have been a big gamble, but it’s paying off… relatively speaking. LVMH watch chief Jean-Claude Biver tells Bloomberg that his company is upping production of the Android Wear timepiece to meet demand from retailers.

Microsoft To Open-Source A Key Part Of Its Web Browser
Microsoft is continuing its march toward a more open future. The company said today it will open source a core piece of its Edge web browser, the successor to Internet Explorer.

NASA releases the highest resolution images ever taken of Pluto
NASA has just released the highest resolution photographs of the surface of Pluto from the New Horizons flyby. The images were taken about 10,000 miles (17,000 kilometers) above the surface of Pluto, just 15 minutes before the spacecraft’s closest approach.

Huawei Launches The Mate 8 With Kirin 950
Today Huawei announces their new flagship, the Mate 8. The specifications of the Mate 8 are a large departure from both the Mate S and Mate 7’s, with only the characterizingly large 4000mAh battery and 6″ screen tying the similarities between the new device and its predecessor.

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