Magnetic north has never sat still. In the last hundred years or so, the direction in which our compasses steadfastly point has lumbered ever northward, driven by Earth’s churning liquid outer core some 1,800 miles beneath the surface.
Monthly Archives: February 2019
FBI conducted sting operation on Huawei at CES: report
While companies were showcasing the latest technology at CES this year, the FBI was carrying out a sting operation on the world’s second largest smartphone manufacturer.
Intel Collaborated With the NFL Yet Again to Bring Drones to the Super Bowl Halftime Show
The New England Patriots aren’t the only ones making a return appearance to the Super Bowl tonight. For this year’s halftime show, Intel collaborated with the NFL yet again to bring drones inside of the Mercedes-Benz stadium for a choreographed light show.
The real lesson of Facebook’s Apple dust-up shows why Zuckerberg’s ‘hacker way’ is even more dangerous than we thought
If policymakers needed any more convincing that it’s long past time to rein in Facebook, the company’s dustup this week with Apple provided a bold-faced, highlighted, and gold-starred case in point.
Modern Weather Forecasts Are Stunningly Accurate
As the sun rose on Wednesday, 26 million Americans peered out their windows onto a land chilled to 20 degrees Fahrenheit below zero. And that’s when the air was still: When the wind picked up, as it did from Chicago to the Dakotas, it could feel like it was 50 below.
Dear web developers: set the font color, too
First of all, thanks for taking time to set the background color for your web pages and form elements. The light grey or is so much more pleasant than the default glaring white color. Though, that might be a problem for some users, especially those with a default dark theme on their systems.
Forget everything you know about 3D printing — the ‘replicator’ is here
They nicknamed it ‘the replicator’ — in homage to the machines in the Star Trek saga that can materialize virtually any inanimate object.