Breaking free from the office – without breaking the office. Comment By now you’ve got this working-at-home business covered. Even if you find you’re occasionally eating your own weight in biscuits, you’ve bought a lighting kit to look professional on video calls, and you’ve won the fight for bandwidth by bribing the kids to stay off … Continue reading So how are your remote working tools shaping up? Continue Reading
China’s space program will launch a Mars mission in July, according to its current plans. This will include deploying an orbital probe to study the red planet, and a robotic, remotely-controlled rover for surface exploration. The U.S. has also been planning another robotic rover mission for Mars, and it’s set to take off this summer, too – … Continue reading China set to launch Mars probe and rover mission in July Continue Reading
Yes, especially for consumer-facing workloads. But don’t expect a comfortable ride. The cloud is dominated by American companies. AWS, Microsoft, Google, IBM and Oracle all win more revenue than Alibaba, China’s current leader. But China’s tech giant online retailers, entertainment companies and telcos are hyperscale operators in their own right, either to support hundreds of millions … Continue reading China’s clouds have hyperscale parents and global ambition – but are they contenders for your apps? Continue Reading
Low-profile Chinese firm decides mobile marketing, brand stuff can’t be that hard. Review Smartphone vendors are almost all universally weird. TCL (not to be confused with 1990’s R&B group TLC, best known for their hit song about the downfalls of wearing medical apparel) is no exception. Throughout its almost 25-year existence, the low-profile Chinese firm has manufactured … Continue reading TCL 10L: Remember the white goods flinger that had a licence to make BlackBerrys? It made a new own-name phone Continue Reading
Technology improvements over the past few years mean that most fully wireless earbuds are a lot better than they used to be. That has led to something of a narrowing of the field among competitors in this arena, but some of the players still stand out – and Jabra have definitely delivered a standout performer with its … Continue reading Jabra’s Elite Active 75t earbuds offer great value and sound for both workouts and workdays Continue Reading
It’s meant to prevent cheating, but hobbyists are furious. Texas Instruments’ graphing calculators have a reputation as hobbyist devices given their program support, but they just lost some of their appeal. Cemetech has learned (via Linus Tech Tips) that Texas Instruments is pulling support for assembly- and C-based programs on the TI-84 Plus CE and its French counterpart, the TI-83 Premium CE. … Continue reading Texas Instruments makes it harder to run programs on its calculators Continue Reading
This week could be the biggest week to date for private spaceflight, with landmark launch attempts coming from both Virgin Orbit and SpaceX . Virgin Orbit is looking to join the elite club of private launch companies that have actually made it to space, with a full flight test of its combined Cosmic Girl and LauncherOne system. … Continue reading Max Q: Huge week ahead for SpaceX and Virgin Orbit Continue Reading
Professional sim racer Lorenz Hoerzing secretly competed in his place. Formula E Audi driver Daniel Abt has been disqualified from an esports race and fined €10,000 for using a ringer in his place, according to Reuters. Rivals became suspicious after he qualified in second place and went on to take third in the Formula E Race at Home Challenge, … Continue reading Formula E racer disqualified for using an esports ringer in a virtual race Continue Reading
The Free Fly event runs until June 2nd. Will Star Citizen ever be finished? That’s a question I doubt anyone knows the answer to right now. If you’re curious about the state of the game, though, and haven’t yet contributed to its absurdly-successful crowdfunding campaign, good news: it’s currently free to play. Developer Cloud Imperium Games is running … Continue reading You can try crowdfunded space sim ‘Star Citizen’ for free right now Continue Reading
A new leak hints at what to expect from Sony’s WH-1000XM4, the upcoming successor to the WH-1000XM3, one of the best wireless headphones on the market. The details come from Twitter user justplayinghard, who tweeted out information they obtained from a recent teardown of Sony’s Headphones Connect app. The code hints that the M4 headphones may be able … Continue reading Sony’s WH-1000XM4 headphones may let you pair more than one device Continue Reading