Loon says it’s now providing service over a 50,000 square kilometer region to subscribers of Telkom Kenya. Loon, the former Google X project and now independent Alphabet company, announced that its high-altitude broadband balloons have launched in Kenya. Loon says it’s now providing service over a 50,000 square kilometer region to subscribers of Telkom Kenya, … Continue reading Google’s Loon launches service in Kenya Continue Reading
A foldable iPhone could provide visual notifications of messages and calls while closed up, with the display allowing for part of the screen to remain visible despite being folded shut. Apple has been long rumored to be working on some form of foldable iPhone or other device, with it investing and researching related technologies for quite … Continue reading Apple’s foldable iPhone could have a way to see your notifications when shut Continue Reading
It’s all about Kubernetes, Program Manager Jeff Hollan tells The Reg Microsoft has provided an Azure Functions extension for Dapr – Distributed Application Runtime – but currently it cannot be used with the hosted Azure Functions cloud service. The company’s habit of slapping the Azure brand on everything is perhaps part of the confusion here. Casual … Continue reading Microsoft integrates Azure Functions with Dapr – for when you run Azure Functions outside Azure. Confused yet? Continue Reading
Shining a Rust-based forensic light into the darker corners of images Boffins in Microsoft Research has pulled the covers off Project Freta, a free service aimed at spotting memory malfeasance. A technology demonstration named for the street in Warsaw, Poland where Marie Curie was born, Freta comes from the NExT Security Ventures (NSV) team and is all … Continue reading Fret not, Linux fans, Microsoft’s Project Freta is here to peer deep into your memory… to spot malware Continue Reading
First ‘affordable’ 5G phone for the budget blower brand Motorola today whipped the sheets off its first mid-tier 5G blower: the Moto G 5G Plus. Click to enlarge All things considered, the vendor’s presentation – a metaphor using a motorbike to indicate the unit’s speediness – was about as subtle as stanza of GCSE English … Continue reading Fast as a motorbike, subtle as a brick: Motorola pushes out new Moto G 5G Plus mid-ranger Continue Reading
As the launch of the “iPhone 12” inches closer, AppleInsider got its hands on dummy units of Apple’s upcoming phones which finally reveal how these new devices will look and feel. While the most recent rumors point to the “iPhone 12” coming in four sizes, we got our hands on dummies of three. We … Continue reading Revealed: Here’s what Apple’s new ‘iPhone 12’ lineup looks like Continue Reading
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An annotated image of the new all-liquid-metal battery University of Texas at Austin Liquid and solid-state batteries each have their own advantages and disadvantages, but now researchers at the University of Texas at Austin claim to have developed a new battery that mixes the best of both worlds. The new design is the first all-liquid-metal … Continue reading Experimental all liquid-metal battery stays liquid at room temperature Continue Reading
Lead researcher Jay Guo with the transparent, conductive plastic Robert Coelius/University of Michigan Engineering Traditional plastics are so poor at conducting electricity that they are often used to insulate against it instead, making it the shielding material of choice for things like wiring and circuit boards. But scientists have long hoped to flip the script … Continue reading Conductive plastic uses sandwiched materials for extra transparency Continue Reading
The 367-horsepower Voxan Wattman land speed bike complete with bullet train fairings April 2019, what heady days those were, back before the post-modern plague crammed us into our hovels and forced us to take many long, hard looks at ourselves. I remember it being a month of plentiful avocado and bacon toasties, of carefree hand-shaking … Continue reading Voxan reveals its 367-hp Wattman electric land speed attempt motorcycle Continue Reading