Author Archives: HeyJK

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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Accenture sued over website redesign so bad it Hertz: Car hire biz demands $32m+ for ‘defective’ cyber-revamp

Posted on April 30, 2019 by HeyJK

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Car rental giant Hertz is suing over a website redesign from hell. The US corporation hired monster management consultancy firm Accenture in August 2016 to completely revamp its online presence. The new site was due to go live in December 2017.

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Can you survive if you run out of air?

Posted on April 29, 2019 by HeyJK

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There was a sickening crack when the thick cable connecting Chris Lemons to the ship above him snapped. This vital umbilical cord to the world above carried power, communications, heat and air to his diving suit 100m (328ft) below the surface of the sea.

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What If an Asteroid Was Going to Hit Earth? NASA Will Make Believe This Week

Posted on April 29, 2019 by HeyJK

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What would we do if we knew an asteroid would hit Earth in 2027? That’s what NASA personnel will explore during a simulation taking place next week. The project will play out as a tabletop exercise held during the 2019 Planetary Defense Conference in College Park, Maryland.

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Millennials Tried to Kill the American Mall, But Gen Z Might Save It

Posted on April 25, 2019 by HeyJK

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Gen Z keeps confounding Corporate America. They’ve shunned beer, they want companies to take political stands and they trust Kardashians to make their makeup choices. But perhaps the biggest surprise about this new cohort of teenagers is the most unexpected of all: They love the shopping mall.

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Twitter Q1 flies past estimates with sales of $787M and EPS of $0.25, but MAUs drop to 330M

Posted on April 23, 2019 by HeyJK

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Social networking and media platform Twitter today reported its results for the first quarter of the year, and it’s a strong one. The company said that revenues came in at $787 million, up 18 percent on a year ago; with net income of $191 million and earnings per share of $0.25.

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Twitter Q1 flies past estimates with sales of $787M and EPS of $0.25, but MAUs drop to 330M

Posted on April 23, 2019 by HeyJK

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Social networking and media platform Twitter today reported its results for the first quarter of the year, and it’s a strong one. The company said that revenues came in at $787 million, up 18 percent on a year ago; with net income of $191 million and earnings per share of $0.25.

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Tesla gears up for fully self-driving cars amid skepticism

Posted on April 22, 2019 by HeyJK

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk appears poised to transform the company’s electric cars into driverless vehicles in a risky bid to realize a bold vision that he has been floating for years.

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Elon Musk says machine to connect human brain to computers is ‘coming soon’

Posted on April 22, 2019 by HeyJK

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Elon Musk has revealed his Neuralink startup is close to announcing the first brain-machine interface to connect humans and computers. The entrepreneur took to Twitter to tell followers the technology would be “coming soon”, though failed to provide more exact details.

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Why Apple Settled With Qualcomm

Posted on April 21, 2019 by HeyJK

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Steve Kovach, writing for CNBC: Its surprise settlement with Qualcomm Tuesday over a years-long patent spat means it’s now in a position to keep pace with its competitors to bring a 5G-ready iPhone to market as soon as this year. There’s no way there’s going to be a 5G iPhone this year.

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42% of Americans are at risk of retiring broke

Posted on April 19, 2019 by HeyJK

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At this rate, retirement is more of a fantasy than a reality for many people in this country. About 42 percent of Americans have less than $10,000 saved for when they retire, according to a study by GoBankingRates.

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The global population pyramid: How global demography has changed and what we can expect for the 21st century

Posted on April 19, 2019 by HeyJK

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This blog post draws on data and research discussed in our entry on World Population Growth and Future Population Growth. In 1950 there were 2.5 billion people on the planet. Now in 2019, there are 7.7 billion. By the end of the century the UN expects a global population of 11.2 billion.

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My Samsung Galaxy Fold screen broke after just a day

Posted on April 17, 2019 by HeyJK

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Look closely at the picture above, and you can see a small bulge right on the crease of my Galaxy Fold review unit. It’s just enough to slightly distort the screen, and I can feel it under my finger. There’s something pressing up against the screen at the hinge, right there in the crease.

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