Ten NASA-sponsored CubeSats are preparing to fly on the agency’s next Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) mission, making this the first payload carried by Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket. Educational CubeSats to Launch on Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne Rocket Source: NASA
Read MoreNot a great start to the week for the big G. Gmail, YouTube down: Google services back online after widespread outage – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreStudios and tech giants have ramped up efforts to include people with disabilities, but the work’s just begun. As Hollywood and tech look to boost diversity, accessibility is finally having its moment – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreFor movies, 2020 might have been the strangest year since cinema was invented. 2020 was a year without Marvel heroes. Do we need them back? – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreImage: Snap Today, Snapchat is getting a new original game called Bitmoji Paint. As the name suggests, the game involves Bitmoji — those cutely grotesque customizable avatars — and painting. It’s Snap Inc.’s second title from its internal games studio, which began putting out games last year. “Our goal with Bitmoji has always been to
Read MoreThe researcher, one of the company’s best-known Black female employees, said she was fired last week. Google Chief Apologizes for A.I. Researcher’s Dismissal Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreCyberpunk 2077 was probably the most highly-anticipated game of the decade. Fans waited eight long years for the dystopian sci-fi RPG, made by the team responsible for the beloved The Witcher series. But it turned out to be a dud. If you have even the slightest interest in video games, you’ve probably heard that Cyberpunk
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Users report issues accessing Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs, and other Google services in multiple countries — Not much more to update yet but we’re seeing and getting word from others that multiple Google services have gone down. Gmail, YouTube and Google Docs are all experiencing outages … Users report issues accessing
Read MoreMany of Google’s most popular services have been hit by the outage. | Image: DownDetector Multiple Google services and websites including YouTube, Gmail, Google Assistant, and Google Docs have been hit with a widespread outage. DownDetector indicates that the outage, which appears to be affecting Google’s business and personal services, started at around 6:40AM ET
Read MoreThere’s something satisfying about creating high voltages. Sure, there are practical uses like neon signs or doing certain experiments, but be honest — you really just want to see some giant arcs lighting up your dark mad scientist lair. [Mircemk] has just the prescription for what ails you. Using a two-stage approach, he shows a
Read MoreUpdate (5:36PM IST/1:06PM CET): Google Search is up and running now. Other services are still down. Yup, it’s not just you — many Google services, including Gmail, G Suite, and YouTube are unavailable across many countries around the world right now. The cause of the outage is presently unclear. We’ll update this post as we
Read MoreIn the shift to low emission vehicles, much of the world’s attention is paid toward new electrified vehicles. However, in the overall pursuit of lowering emissions in the transport sector, it’s important that used car buyers opt for electric over gasoline. According to used car website, BuyaCar.co.uk, second-hand buyers are now starting to make the
Read MoreImage: Reddit Reddit has acquired “short-form video social platform” Dubsmash, the company announced today. Under the terms of the deal, the TikTok rival will continue to exist as a separate platform and brand, but its “innovative video creation tools” will be integrated into Reddit. Although Reddit has supported native video uploads since 2017, its video-editing
Read MoreTatiana Walk-Morris / Vanity Fair: A look at the murky world of moderation on Clubhouse, which has become a haven for the powerful to flirt with misogyny and racism — The invite-only app, which has drawn attention for anti-Semitic speech and harassment issues, says it’s focused on making users feel safe. A look at the
Read MoreCompanies like Zendesk, Box, Dropbox, Atlassian, and Zoom are well-known for successfully building enterprise businesses. Most of them have transitioned from consumer or SMB-focused roots to become serious enterprise players, but each has taken a different path to reaching hundreds of millions of dollars in sales. People sometimes call these transitions “pivots”— but that’s not
Read MoreAs regulators seek ways to curb the company’s power, there is more focus on the vast index — hundreds of billion of web pages — behind its search engine. Google Dominates Thanks to an Unrivaled View of the Web Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreLike anyone who loves playing tabletop games, I’m always on the hunt for something new, fresh, and exciting — and that’s why I’m incredibly hyped about the SquareOne board games console. Yes, that is what it sounds like: a digital screen you can play a variety of titles on. Have a look: The SquareOne board
Read MoreImage: CD Projekt Red Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red has acknowledged the performance issues plaguing the game on base last-gen consoles, and has apologized for not showing the game running on the original PS4 and Xbox One prior to its release. “We should have paid more attention to making it play better on PlayStation
Read MoreA plane is a tool familiar to all woodworkers, used to shape a workpiece by hand by shaving away material. Regular planes are two-handed tools available at all good hardware stores. For finer work, a finger plane can be useful, though harder to find. Thankfully, [Daniel] put together a video showing how to make your
Read MoreRyan Browne / CNBC: EA says it has agreed to buy British racing game developer Codemasters for $1.2B, outbidding Take-Two, which had agreed on a $971M acquisition last month — – The deal upstaged a previous transaction agreed between rival publisher Take-Two Interactive and Codemasters. EA says it has agreed to buy British racing game
Read MoreElectronic Arts has agreed to buy out UK developer Codemasters in a move that could see the US publishing giant wrest control of the racing video game genre. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of next year for £6.04 (~$7.98) a share, valuing Codemasters at around $1.2 billion. Sky News first
Read MoreSilicon Valley is building a powerful influence industry in Brussels, which has “never seen this kind of money” spent this way. Big Tech Turns Its Lobbyists Loose on Europe, Alarming Regulators Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThrough acquisition of PayFort, Amazon Payment Services launches in the Middle East Through acquisition of PayFort, Amazon Payment Services launches in the Middle East Source: Tech Radar Software
Read MoreDaisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: Internal memo: Google now plans to have employees return to office in September 2021 and is testing a flexible model of three days in office, two days WFH — The Silicon Valley company now plans to have employees return to the office in September. It will be different when
Read MoreAlden Wicker / Wired: Poshmark’s product design choices around social sharing, like encouraging sellers to reshare their listings daily, wastes sellers’ time and reduces their profit — The social shopping app Poshmark promises women the chance to spin gold out of secondhand threads. The reality is a lot of spinning, and little gold. Poshmark's product
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