Whole Foods is already hawking Amazon Echo speakers Amazon isn’t wasting any time now that its Whole Foods acquisition has gone through. Sure enough, visitors to Whole Foods stores have noticed that the grocery stores are already pitching discounted Echo speakers ($100 for the regular model, […]
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NASA goes Steampunk for its future Venus probes “The NIAC program is designed to let technologists stretch and create concepts that have never been considered by NASA before,” said NIAC program executive Jason Derleth, adding that ideas can come from universities, businesses or garage inventors.
Samsung recruits Panasonic to bring HDR10+ to more TVs and devices
Samsung recruits Panasonic to bring HDR10+ to more TVs and devices At present, the two competing software offer similar results. Unlike static HDR10, Dolby Vision and HDR10+ both use “dynamic metadata” to adjust brightness levels on a scene-by-scene basis — and even a frame-by-frame-basis. But, there […]
Uber drivers can now share their location with friends and family
Uber drivers can now share their location with friends and family Uber is also targeting passengers outside the US with a new identification check. In regions where electronic payments aren’t as common, riders will now be able to verify their identity using their Facebook account. Along […]
The Morning After: Monday, August 28th 2017
The Morning After: Monday, August 28th 2017 Elon Musk reckons future teams could hit 600 miles per hour.Hyperloop Pod Competition winner hits over 200MPH Adjacent to SpaceX headquarters, 25 teams gathered for another Hyperloop Pod Competition. This time the winner would be judged by how quickly […]
Lost Alan Turing letters found in university filing cabinet
Lost Alan Turing letters found in university filing cabinet Turing worked at the University of Manchester from 1948, first as a Reader in the mathematics department and later as the Deputy Director of the Computing Laboratory. These jobs followed his pivotal work with the Government Code […]
‘Safer’ thorium reactor trials could salvage nuclear power
‘Safer’ thorium reactor trials could salvage nuclear power But, if it’s so safe and reliable why hasn’t thorium been used all along? Because (unlike uranium) it’s much harder to weaponize. As a result, it’s historically been sidelined by nations in search of both energy and a […]
Tanker’s speedy Arctic crossing is bad news for the planet
Tanker’s speedy Arctic crossing is bad news for the planet As the BBC points out, Arctic sea ice levels have declined over the past 30 years — and Sovcomflot doesn’t expect the ice to thicken to a significant degree over the useful lifespan of the Christophe […]
Smart code helps your phone browse the web twice as quickly
Smart code helps your phone browse the web twice as quickly Typically, your phone’s web browser has to process nearly 100 web links before you see an entire page. It has to make multiple requests and spend a lot of time idling. Vroom, however, bundles the […]
Demand for Mayweather-McGregor fight crashed pay-per-view servers
Demand for Mayweather-McGregor fight crashed pay-per-view servers The pay-per-view issues at a minimum are known to have affected TV providers like Comcast, Atlantic Broadband and Frontier, although it’s not clear how large the scope of the failures was at this stage. Problems like this aren’t completely […]