Nvidia is temporarily suspending its self-driving car tests on public roads worldwide. The company best known for its powerful graphics cards has in recent years waded into the self-driving car waters, and it currently counts over 370 partners in the space. But following a fatal […]
Day: March 27, 2018
NASA’s Webb Observatory Requires More Time for Testing and Evaluation; New Launch Window Under Review
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope currently is undergoing final integration and test phases that will require more time to ensure a successful mission. After an independent assessment of remaining tasks for the highly complex space observatory, Webb’s previously revised 2019 launch window now is targeted […]
Apple’s ‘Field Trip’ education iPad event by the numbers
$329: Apple has long touted its 9.7-inch iPad as a potent yet affordable educational tool. This year, the tablet received both a small boost to its processing power — moving from the A9 chipset to the newer A10 — it also now boasts Apple Pencil […]
Launch of NASA’s ambitious Webb space telescope delayed until 2020
The James Webb space telescope is certainly one of the most anticipated projects coming out of NASA, both because of its grand scale and its interminable gestation time. Well, the latter just got a little longer: the launch of the Webb, expected previously in mid-2019 […]
The 5 biggest announcements from the Apple education event
Apple took its annual spring event out of California and hosted it at a high school in Chicago this year, promising to focus its newest products toward the education market that's been dominated by Google and Microsoft. The keynote was condensed into just one hour, […]
Airbnb for billionaires: Where the world’s richest people stay when they travel
That's why more than ever, Lassman is putting his millionaire and billionaire clientele into private rented villas – a type of Airbnb for billionaires – noting that the privacy and true relaxation is worth the extremely high prices. Luxury vacation rentals in destinations like Greece […]
NASA’s Webb Observatory Requires More Time for Testing and Evaluation; New Launch Window Under Review
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope currently is undergoing final integration and test phases that will require more time to ensure a successful mission. After an independent assessment of remaining tasks for the highly complex space observatory, Webb’s previously revised 2019 launch window now is targeted […]
Le sanzioni alla Russia ci puniscono: dal 2014 persi 3 miliardi l’anno
Colpite le aziende italiane: dal design all'agroalimentare alla moda. E con le ritorsioni, lo scenario peggiorerà. Cinzia Meoni – Mar, 27/03/2018 – 08:50. commenta. L'escalation diplomatica tra il cosiddetto mondo occidentale e la Russia preoccupa le … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #thisisnews
Pensioni: dal taglio della quattordicesima alla riforma, le richieste Ue
di Gabriella Lax – Pensioni nel mirino europeo. Da una parte c'è la Bce che, nel Bollettino economico, ammonisce i Paesi dell'Unione affinchè attuino con efficacia le riforme del sistema previdenziale adottate negli ultimi anni, proprio mentre in Italia si discute, nelle intenzioni del futuro […]
Atm, partito il primo bus elettrico di Milano: 180 km di autonomia, 5 ore per la ricarica
Battesimo, oggi, per il primo bus elettrico di Milano. Lungo 12 metri, ha una autonomia di circa 180 chilometri, una velocità massima di 70 km/h, e un tempo di ricarica di 5 ore. Al simbolico ‘taglio del nastro’ c’era anche il sindaco Giuseppe Sala che […]