Month: May 2020

SpaceX  has received authorization from the Federal Aviation Administration  (FAA) to fly suborbital missions with its Starship prototype spacecraft, paving the way for test flights at its Boca Chica, Texas site. SpaceX has been hard at work readying its latest Starship prototype for low-altitude, short-duration, controlled flight tests, and conducted another static engine fire test of the fourth … Continue reading SpaceX gets FAA permission to fly its Starship spacecraft prototype Continue Reading →

A mobile workstation for creators Razer on Thursday put its new Blade 15 Studio Edition laptop on sale. The mobile workstation, at least according to Razer, is equipped to meet the needs of all types of creators – from audio engineers to visual effects artists. It starts with a 15.6-inch OLED 4K touch display (60Hz, 1ms … Continue reading Razer’s new Blade 15 Studio Edition for creators starts at $4,299.99 Continue Reading →

Tesla’s  board certified a financial milestone that unlocks the first tranche — worth more than $700 million — of an unprecedented multi-billion-dollar pay package for CEO Elon Musk, according a document filed Thursday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The milestone allows Musk to purchase the first grouping or tranche of nearly 1.69 million shares at … Continue reading Tesla board certifies Elon Musk’s payday worth more than $700 million Continue Reading →

Researchers urge caution on genetic studies early in outbreaks. When cases of COVID-19 began popping up in Washington state in late February, researchers were quick to dive into the genetics of the viruses infecting residents. Based on what they knew at the time, they hypothesized that those cases in late February were genetically linked to … Continue reading Flawed COVID hypothesis may have saved Washington from being NYC Continue Reading →

It will be available to select Houston residents The Covid-19 pandemic has introduced plenty of challenges into our day-to-day lives. Tasks that were once routine, such as making a run to the grocery store, are now more complex and risky than ever. To avoid these headaches, consumers are increasingly relying on delivery services to do the … Continue reading Nuro partners with CVS to test autonomous prescription deliveries Continue Reading →

Microsoft’s Project Reunion: Win32 and UWP unite Build 2020 saw Microsoft unveil “Project Reunion,” a set of technologies that aims to finally bring Windows’ divergent application development models together. It builds on the approach pioneered with WinUI 3 to merge the old familiar Win32 and the newer UWP (Universal Windows Platform), with support for desktop and … Continue reading Microsoft’s Project Reunion: Win32 and UWP unite Continue Reading →

Daimler, Platform Science will build software incorporating app-driven technology directly into new big rigs Putting a computer in the cab of a big rig was a radical step back in 1988. Trucking companies since then have added as many as 10 separate devices into vehicles, tracking everything from location to the time drivers spend behind … Continue reading Trucking Looks to Bundle Up Technology Continue Reading →

A little-known Achilles heel in the cloud computing world, intra-cloud latency could have a huge negative impact on public cloud-based application performance We’ve all heard about inter-cloud latency, the delay in sending and receiving information to and from public clouds. Think of a remote client leveraging the crowded open Internet, or applications communicating between cloud … Continue reading Intra-cloud latency is real. Here’s what to do about it Continue Reading →

‘The company is continuing to find misleading ways to obtain information and use it for profit’ Google has seen no end to legal challenges both in the US and Europe. It’s latest is a lawsuit out of Arizona stemming from an investigation started in 2018. The state’s attorney general claims the company violated AZ law by … Continue reading Arizona AG lawsuit alleges Google illegally tracked Android users Continue Reading →

Discovery campaigns are available to all advertisers globally. Discovery ads serve automatically across YouTube, Discover and Gmail. Google introduced two big image-driven ad tests at its Google Marketing Live event last year. Gallery ads for Search campaigns didn’t make it and are set to shuffle off this summer, but Discovery ads have emerged from testing and are now available … Continue reading Google is coming for Facebook budgets with Discovery ads, now available globally Continue Reading →