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Monthly Archives: May 2019

The Boring Company on Twitter

Posted on May 24, 2019 by HeyJK
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Wanna race?
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General Motors designs a new “brain and nervous system” for its vehicles

Posted on May 21, 2019 by HeyJK
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A common criticism of the increasingly digital nature of new cars and trucks is that all these new features are being shoehorned into systems that were not designed with features like connectivity in mind.
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Apple and Amazon cut a deal that upended the Mac resale market

Posted on May 21, 2019 by HeyJK
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When John Bumstead looked at listings for his products on Amazon.com in early January, he was waiting for the guillotine to fall.
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Watch an autonomous drone dodge, duck, dip, dive, and dodge a football

Posted on May 17, 2019 by HeyJK
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Drones are agile things, but they’re not exactly known for their quick reactions. If you want to knock one out of the sky, a well-thrown ball or even a spear should do the trick.
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Space Engineer: We Could Move Earth’s Orbit to Escape a Dying Sun

Posted on May 17, 2019 by HeyJK
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In about five billion years, the Sun will begin to die, rapidly expanding and incinerating the Earth in its death throes. That’s not for a while, but any humans left will need to plan well in advance if they want to escape cosmic obliteration.
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Apple Accidentally Reveals Radical New iPhone Upgrade

Posted on May 17, 2019 by HeyJK
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Unimpressed by Apple’s upcoming iPhone 11 and iPhone XR2? New information directly from Apple itself has teased a red-hot new iPhone upgrade that’s worth waiting for.
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First look at Tesla’s new in-car driving visualization

Posted on May 17, 2019 by HeyJK
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Tesla is currently pushing a new software update with a revamp of its in-car driving visualization produced by its Autopilot system. Today, we get a quick first look at it with a new video. As we reported earlier this month, Tesla started pushing a new software update (2019.
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Crosby: As millennials reject family treasures, baby boomers start to ask, ‘What do we do with all this stuff?’

Posted on May 13, 2019 by HeyJK
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Every time I enter the blue-tiled bathroom off the back door of my home I think about my mom, my millennial offspring and the overflowing shelves at the local Goodwill.
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Oops! Scientists accidentally create new material that makes batteries charge much faster

Posted on May 12, 2019 by HeyJK
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Some of the most famous scientific discoveries happened by accident. From Teflon and the microwave oven to penicillin, scientists trying to solve a problem sometimes find unexpected things.
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Why the Moon Matters to Jeff Bezos

Posted on May 12, 2019 by HeyJK
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Between the shipping and handling, the web servers, the groceries, the newspapers—Jeff Bezos never stopped thinking about the moon. He was five years old when Americans walked on the lunar surface, and he remembers the grainy, black-and-white footage from that historic moment.
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Moms, Kraft will cover your Mother’s Day babysitting bill so you can do whatever the heck you want

Posted on May 9, 2019 by HeyJK
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If you forgot Mother’s Day is approaching, we’d be surprised since campaigns around the holiday are rolling in fast and furiously by way of muscular mascots, character-filled greeting cards and more.
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IHMC Atlas Autonomous Path Planning Across Narrow Terrain

Posted on May 9, 2019 by HeyJK
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Atlas humanoid robot (DRC version) walking across narrow terrain using autonomous planning. The robot senses the terrain with LIDAR and builds a map of planar regions. A path planning algorithm plans footsteps across the planar regions to a goal location, specified by an operator. The robot is curre
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Apple to Reveal New Home-Grown Apps, Software Features at WWDC

Posted on May 6, 2019 by HeyJK
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Apple Inc. is planning to unleash a slew of new apps, features and development tools at its annual software conference next month.
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SpaceX confirms its astronaut capsule was ‘destroyed’ during testing at the Space Coast

Posted on May 3, 2019 by HeyJK
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SpaceX confirmed Thursday the explosion and destruction of its astronaut capsule during a recent test, adding that the company is hopeful it can still make its goal to launch astronauts by the end of the year.
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ESPN the Magazine Will Stop Publishing Print Edition in September

Posted on May 1, 2019 by HeyJK
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ESPN told its staff Tuesday that the company’s 21-year-old magazine would print its final issue in September, as first reported by John Ourand.
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MIT Press has granted full access to all its journals
Beyond Meat signs global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut
For the First Time, Physicists Have Filmed the Oscillation of a Time Crystal
Watchy: The Hackable $50 Smartwatch
Lotus 1-2-3 arbitrary resolution
ClickHouse as an alternative to Elasticsearch for log storage and analysis
Robot AI beats world-class curling competitors (2020)
Using Ghidra to Reverse Engineer Super Monkey Ball for GameCube
SSH and User-Mode IP WireGuard
Can One Hear the Shape of a Drum? [pdf]
Volley (YC W18) is hiring engineers to build voice-controlled entertainment
Dieter Rams Palettes
Cryptic terrestrial fungus-like fossils of the early Ediacaran Period
Launch HN: Athens Research (YC W21) – Open-Source Roam Research
Rent controls have split housing in Berlin into two distinct markets
Bitcoin Is Time
Giving Ada a Chance
jQuery 3.6.0
Launch HN: SST (YC W21) – A live development environment for AWS Lambda
Feedback Ladders: How We Encode Code Reviews at Netlify
The Web’s Missing Interoperability
All by Myself
Statistics Postdoc Tames Decades-Old Geometry Problem
How an Anti-TypeScript “JavaScript developer” like me became a TypeScript fan
Rookie coding mistake prior to Gab hack came from site’s CTO
SEMrush S-1
Repl.it Teams for Education
Show HN: PhpOverWebsocket
The Boxes of Hock Wah Yeo
Google-free /e/ OS is now selling preloaded phones in the US, starting at $380

Engadget

Star Trek animated comedy 'Lower Decks' heads to Blu-ray on May 18th
Bill Nye explains disasters in Peacock's 'The End is Nye'
Amazon's GameOn screen recording app comes to iOS
Uber spins out Postmates' robot delivery division into a separate company
Twitter's Clubhouse-style audio chat rooms land on Android
Dead by Daylight's latest killer is a K-pop star
Google Play Books update brings audio narration to kids titles
Watch Samsung detail its Micro LED TVs
Epic Games has bought 'Fall Guys' studio Mediatonic
'Pokémon Go' on HoloLens 2 is a glimpse at the future of AR gaming
The CPU from Apple's iMac G3 is powering NASA's Perseverance rover
'Hogwarts Legacy' may allow players to create transgender characters
Microsoft Mesh aims to bring holographic virtual collaboration to all
The 2022 C40 Recharge will be Volvo’s first leather-free EV
Google revamps Chrome profiles to make switching easier

Wired

Six-Word Sci-Fi: Stories Written By You
Twitch's First Transparency Report Is Here—and Long Overdue
Strap on a HoloLens and Step Into the AR Conference Room
Sleuths Read Old Booby-Trapped Letters Without Opening Them
The ‘Girl Games’ of the ’90s Were Fun and Feminist
Microsoft's Dream of Decentralized IDs Enters the Real World
Vaccine Passports Can Help the US Reopen—or Further Divide Us
What Do TV’s Race Fantasies Actually Want to Say?
How #BringBackOurGirls Became an International Rallying Cry
Email and Slack Have Locked Us in a Productivity Paradox

Apple Insider

Upcoming macOS 11.3 update may remove Rosetta 2 in some regions
Apple has stopped producing 512GB, 1TB SSD iMac 4K models, claim sources
Apple releases third developer betas of iOS 14.5 and iPadOS 14.5 [u]
How to block channels in Apple News - and try to keep them blocked
Intel to pay $2.18B to VLSI for patent infringement
Microsoft embraces Mixed Reality future with Microsoft Mesh
Review: Belkin MagSafe BoostCharge Pro is a great, but pricey, 2-in-1 charger
Apple issues third macOS Big Sur 11.3 developer beta
MLB returns game video to dugout iPads, kills MLB.tv on third-gen Apple TV
Spotify may overtake Apple Podcasts by end of 2021, report claims
Nicole Kidman and Alison Brie to star in 'Roar' on Apple TV+
MagSafe connector could return and replace Lightning on iPhone
Australian man sues Apple, seeks compensation after iPhone explodes in pocket
Apple Hearing Study reveals users aren't taking care of their hearing very well
New Apple Card customers get 6% Daily Cash in March

Google Tech

Biden budget pick Neera Tanden drops out of nomination process after confirmation process unravels - USA TODAY
13 people killed, others hurt in Imperial County crash involving SUV carrying 25 people; some patients rushed to Desert Regional - kuna noticias y kuna radio
Tarrant County ends its mask mandate after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says statewide order will end next week - The Dallas Morning News
Supreme Court Seems Ready To Uphold Restrictive Voting Laws - NPR
President Joe Biden urges states to vaccinate teachers, school staff this month - CNBC
McEnany: Capitol insurrection spoiled plans for a farewell press conference - POLITICO
Judge limits courtroom to one George Floyd family member at a time during Chauvin trial | TheHill - The Hill
What's behind calls for Puerto Rico statehood? Here are 4 things to know. - NBC News
Feds charge man who claimed he dressed up like Antifa and beat, stole gear from police during Capitol riot - CNN
Proud Boys' Alleged Preparation For Capitol Riot Detailed In New Court Filing - NPR
Everything we know about coronavirus variants in NYC - New York Post
279 Nigerian schoolgirls released days after raid on boarding school, officials say - The Washington Post
Congress is investigating One Medical over its vaccine distribution in San Francisco and other cities - San Francisco Chronicle
United Center to open more than 100,000 COVID-19 vaccination appointments starting Thursday - WGN TV Chicago
Psaki pressed on whether Biden admin taking credit for Trump accomplishments on vaccine partnership - Fox News
Target Stock Falls As Massive Investment To Speed Up Online Shift After Earnings Beat - Investor's Business Daily
Biden’s SEC pick: Some crypto markets ‘rife with fraud and scams’ - Yahoo Finance
Stock futures flat in overnight trading after Tuesday's losses - CNBC
'Pokémon Go' on HoloLens 2 is a glimpse at the future of AR gaming - Engadget
Samsung will soon ship Micro LED TVs, but Mini LED still leads the lineup - Ars Technica
The DJI FPV drone takes you into the skies with its 4K camera and video goggles - TechRadar
Twitter users on Android can now join the platform’s Clubhouse-like Spaces - The Verge
Dolly Parton's COVID-19 Vaccine Shot Comes With A 'Jolene' Twist - HuffPost
Hilaria Baldwin, who welcomed baby No. 6, follows surrogacy company on IG - Page Six
Jahmil French, 'Degrassi: The Next Generation' actor, dead at 29 - CNN

Tech Crunch

Facebook’s Oversight Board already ‘a bit frustrated’ — and it hasn’t made a call on Trump ban yet
Atomic, which only funds the startups it launches, just closed its newest fund with $260 million
Sequoia Capital India’s Surge invests $2M in sales engagement platform Outplay
Facebook can save itself by becoming a B Corporation
Daily Crunch: Microsoft unveils Mesh for AR/VR meetings
Create a handbook and integrate AI to onboard remote employees
SpaceX’s first paying moon flight customer wants to give away eight seats aboard his spaceship
The explosive (and inclusive) potential of NFTs in the creative world
Cornea eyes in on fighting wildfires using better data
Following unionization, Glitch signs collective bargaining agreement
Proptech startup States Title, now Doma, going public via SPAC in $3B deal
Fluid Truck, the Zipcar of commercial trucks, raises $63M to take on rental giants

Slashdot

Microsoft Launches Power Fx, a New Open Source Low-Code Language
New Technique Reveals Centuries of Secrets in Locked Letters
A Folding iPhone Could Be Coming In 2023
Google-Free<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/e/ OS Is Now Selling Preloaded Phones In the US, Starting At $380
PayPal In Talks To Buy Crypto Custody Firm Curv, Reports Say
Intel Told To Pay $2.18 Billion After Losing Texas Patent Trial
PlayStation Store Will Stop Selling Movies Nobody Bought
How Microsoft Plans To Give Virtual Reality Apps a Big Boost
Microsoft's Dream of Decentralized IDs Enters the Real World
SmartThings Starts Saying Goodbye To Its Hardware
'Email Is Making Us Miserable'
User Says Apple Disabled His iCloud, App Store, and Apple ID Accounts After Payment To Apple Card Failed
Disney CEO Suggests There's No 'Going Back' To Pre-COVID Film Releases
Microsoft's New Intelligent Speakers Deliver Its Promised Meeting Room of the Future
China Will Dominate AI Unless US Invests More, Commission Warns

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