Thanks to COVID-19, you may not get to take your kids to the planetarium any time soon. But if they’re into astronomy, you’re in luck, because we should be able to see a comet starting tonight. Known as Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) for science reasons, it’s been visible at dawn a few times this month,
Read MoreUbisoft is hosting a digital press conference to show off what would have been its slate of E3 game announcements. The event is called Ubisoft Forward, and though it’s a strange time for the studio to announce new projects — amid several high-level execs leaving the company after being accused of sexual misconduct and harassment
Read MoreTLDR: This Responsive Web Design Essentials course focused on HTML and CSS is the perfect coding introduction for new web creators. Back in the old days, serious web coders used to do the equivalent of walking barefoot through the snow three miles in both directions to get a website build finished. Nowadays, these young whipper-snappers
Read MoreIf you’re looking for a new phone for $200 or less, check out the ones we’ve reviewed and several new ones we’re excited about. Best phones under 0: Our picks for 2020 budget phones that still work great – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMonty Python once did a sketch where people tried to summarize Proust in fifteen seconds. Although summarizing eight FPGA-based CPUs is almost as daunting, [jaeblog] does a nice job of giving a quick sketch of how the CPUs work with the Xilinx Vivado toolchain and the Digilent Arty board. The eight CPUs are: VexRiscv, LEON3,
Read MoreThe iPhone XS may have launched in 2018, but here’s why it’s not time yet to upgrade to the newer iPhone 11. iPhone 11 vs. iPhone XS: The age-old question of whether it's time to upgrade – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreYogita Khatri / The Block: Public records show that the US Secret Service awarded a four-year contract in May to Coinbase to use its blockchain analytics software, worth $183,750 in total — Crypto exchange Coinbase is providing its blockchain analytics software to the U.S. Secret Service, according to a public record obtained by The Block.
Read MoreIs the obvious answer still the correct one, and are you very foolish to go without antivirus? Is antivirus software necessary in 2020? Source: Tech Radar Software
Read MoreEarlier this year, it was reported that an astronaut in space had developed a potentially life-threatening blood clot in the neck. This was successfully treated with medication by doctors on Earth, avoiding surgery. But given that space agencies and private spaceflight companies have committed to landing humans on Mars in the coming decades, we may
Read MoreDo you want to design something to match existing threads on a bottle, or a cap? It turns out there’s an easier way than reaching tiredly for the calipers and channeling one’s inner reverse-engineer. Bottle cap threads — whose industry term is the neck finish — aren’t arbitrary things; they are highly standardized, and [Noupoi]
Read MoreChristopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: An overview of how data-driven tech and analytics are reshaping Hollywood’s creative development process and market research during the pandemic — Coronavirus and the era of stay-at-home binge-watching is accelerating the entertainment industry’s reliance on analytics and data to target … An overview of how data-driven tech and analytics
Read MoreJake Slobe / Clay and Milk: Iowa-based Growers Edge, which provides a range of data-driven fintech and analytics tools for the agricultural industry, has closed $40M Series B — Growers Edge has announced the close of a $40 million Series B round of financing to accelerate the development of its financial technology products … Iowa-based
Read MoreWhether it was as an impulsive youth or an impatient adult, there’s probably few among us who haven’t broken a telescopic antenna or two over the years. It doesn’t take much to put a bend in the thin walled tubing, and after that, all bets are off. So [The Amateur Engineer] couldn’t really be too
Read MoreAroon Deep / MediaNama: Zomato says its FY 2020 revenue was $394M, up 105% YoY, and EBITDA loss reached $293M vs. $277M in FY 2019, as Zomato Gold/Pro had 1.7M subscribers as of March — “While FY19 saw hyper-competition between four well-funded food delivery players, FY20 ended with a two player market structure … Zomato
Read MoreElise Reuter / MedCity News: Evidation Health, whose tech helps aggregate health data from wearables and other sources for virtual clinical trials, raises $45M Series D led by B Capital — Evidation Health, a startup that provides technology for virtual clinical trials, raised $45 million in series D funding. Evidation Health, whose tech helps aggregate
Read MoreArjun Kharpal / CNBC: China’s biggest chipmaker SMIC, a key player in the country’s semiconductor ambitions, kicked off a $6.6B share sale on Tuesday in Shanghai — – SMIC, China’s biggest chipmaker, kicked off a major 46.28 billion yuan ($6.6 billion) share sale on Tuesday. — The contract semiconductor manufacturer … China's biggest chipmaker SMIC,
Read MoreLeah Rosenbaum / Forbes: Telemedicine service Doctor on Demand raises $75M Series D led by General Atlantic, bringing the total raised to $240M — Although many industries have suffered during the Covid-19 pandemic, telemedicine is one sector that isn’t slowing down. The demand for virtual doctor’s appointments … Telemedicine service Doctor on Demand raises M
Read MoreMasvidal finally gets his title fight against Usman at UFC 251. UFC 251 Usman vs. Masvidal: Start time, how to watch online and full fight card – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreA new study from West Virginia University (WVU) Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute (RNI) uses a wearable device and artificial intelligence (AI) to predict COVID-19 up to 3 days before symptoms occur. The study has been an impressive undertaking involving over 1000 health care workers and frontline workers in hospitals across New York, Philadelphia, Nashville, and other
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Paris-based video game company Ubisoft announced Saturday that several high-level company officers are leaving amid allegations of abuse and harassment. The departures of chief creative officer Serge Hascoët, global head of HR Cécile Cornet, and Yannis Mallat, managing director of Ubisoft’s Canadian studios, “come following the initiation of
Read MoreJason Koebler / VICE: A look at the gray market around repairing ventilators, where technicians use homemade dongles and software secretly shared within the community — As COVID-19 surges, hospitals and independent biomedical technicians have turned to a global grey-market for hardware and software … A look at the gray market around repairing ventilators, where
Read MoreFoam is certainly an indispensable raw material for various craft and construction projects. Any serious sculptor however, inevitably grows tired of grinding through a foam block using a simple preheated utensil. The next step up, is to assemble a simple but thoroughly effective hot wire cutting contraption, formed out of a thin guitar wire held
Read MoreThe latest software update to the Fitbit Charge 4 gives two big upgrades including dynamic GPS, and a “smart wake” option. First reported by 9to5Google, the new features are now rolling out to all users. Dynamic GPS allows you to connect with the GPS in your phone if it’s in range, which may help with
Read MoreAs it tries to catch up with the popular features offered by some of its younger competitors, Cisco’s Webex has unveiled virtual backgrounds for its videoconferences. Users can either apply a “blur” effect to mask their background or replace with one of Webex’s preset background images. Zoom, the most popular videoconferencing app of the moment,
Read MoreCatalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Mozilla suspends Firefox Send file-sharing service after reports malware operators use it to host and send links with malicious payloads to potential victims — Mozilla has temporarily suspended the Firefox Send file-sharing service while it adds a Report Abuse mechanism. Mozilla suspends Firefox Send file-sharing service after reports malware operators use
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