Thursday, May 14, 2020. By Natalie Dupille, with cartooncollections.com. Four years ago, Paolo Pirjanian set out to “reinvent” companion robots. Now he’s ready for the world to meet his creation. Wednesday, May 13, 2020. By David Ostow, with cartooncollections.com. When sports seasons around the world […]
Day: May 15, 2020
This is the world’s slowest laptop, yet people can’t wait to buy it
PC enthusiasts have flocked to crowdfunding platform Crowdsupply to back an ongoing campaign for a unique new laptop: the MNT Reform. In a nutshell, the device promises to be open, customizable, hackable and entirely transparent. It’s also the only notebook in existence that complies in […]
TSMC to build a $12 billion advanced semiconductor plant in Arizona with U.S. government support
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world’s largest contract semiconductor foundry, said today that it plans to build an advanced chip foundry in Arizona with support from the state and the United States federal government. The announcement follows a Wall Street Journal report earlier this week […]
Coronavirus in Lombardia, risale il numero dei morti: 111 in un giorno. In aumento anche contagi (con più tamponi)
Risale il numero dei decessi per coronavirus in Lombardia. Nelle ultime 24 ore sono 111 le persone morte con la certificazione del contagio, ieri erano state 69, il giorno prima 62. Il totale arriva così a 15.296 morti. E aumentano anche i contagi, con un […]
Netflix video quality remains throttled, to the annoyance of premium users
Earlier this year Netflix announced that it would cut streaming video quality to reduce the amount of bandwidth consumed by its users during the pandemic. With more people working from home than ever before, the company’s decision made sense at the time. However, it has […]
A Secret Space Plane is Carrying a Solar Experiment to Orbit
On Saturday, the US Air Force is expected to launch its secret space plane, X-37B, for a long-duration mission in low Earth orbit. The robotic orbiter looks like a smaller version of the space shuttle and has spent nearly eight of the past 10 years […]
Immunai wants to map the entire immune system and raised $20 million in seed funding to do it
For the past two years the founding team of Immunai had been working stealthily to develop a new technology to map the immune system of any patient. Founded by Noam Solomon, a Harvard and MIT-educated postdoctoral researcher, and former Palantir engineer, Luis Voloch, Immunai was […]
Ghost of Tsushima looks like a mash-up between a Kurosawa film and Assassin’s Creed
After having some concerns that Ghost of Tsushima might be a carbon copy of last year’s excellent and totally inimitable Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, it’s clear now that Sucker Punch’s next game is two parts Kurosawa film and one part Assassin’s Creed. That was some […]