Month: June 2018

NASA has selected 10 companies to conduct studies and advance technologies to collect, process and use space-based resources for missions to the Moon and Mars. from NASA https://ift.tt/2JgoWSy via IFTTT

The Windows 10 apps for PCs, Windows-powered phones and Xbox One will continue to work for your personal collection, so this isn’t a complete shutdown of the software. However, there’s little doubt that Microsoft is reducing Groove Music’s support to the bare essentials. Now that […]

LeBron showed up to NBA Finals wearing shorts with his suit Published on June 01, 2018 at 01:36AM by Katie Dowd It’s been a mild day weather-wise in the Bay Area, but LeBron James came to Oakland dressed for the heat.

Wikipedia picture of the day on June 1, 2018: Not renovated floor of the Abbey of the Heiligengrabe Monastery in Heiligengrabe, Brandenburg, Germany https://ift.tt/2JkwnrL

The Wikipedia article of the day for June 1, 2018 is Pioneer Helmet. The Pioneer Helmet is a boar-crested Anglo-Saxon helmet dating from the late seventh century. During a March 1997 excavation, it was found in Wollaston, Northamptonshire, in a young man’s grave, probably the […]

boardwalk , n : A slightly elevated path for pedestrians over sandy or swampy ground, typically made out of wood; specifically (Canada, US) one running alongside a body of water or beach. The pop song “Under the Boardwalk” by Kenny Young and Arthur Resnick and […]

A Pew survey of teens and the ways they use technology finds that kids have largely ditched Facebook for the visually stimulating alternatives of Snapchat, YouTube and Instagram. Nearly half said they’re online “almost constantly,” which will probably be used as a source of FUD, […]

SoftBank, the company behind Boston Dynamics’ door-opening robots and a real-life Transformer, is investing billions into a more mainstream AI industry: driverless cars.  Specifically, SoftBank Vision Fund, Softbank’s investment fund group, will bankroll $2.2 billion into GM Cruise, General Motors’ self-driving department, in return for […]

Inside the event, shareholders quizzed Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on a wide range of topics and special interests, including quite a few that were only … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit