Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: Texas Right to Life tip site went offline briefly before returning with new provider Digital Ocean, which also has rules against violating people’s privacy — GoDaddy gave website “24 hours to move to a different provider.” — The Texas Right to Life group will have […]
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Govee StarPal Pro
The Govee StarPal Pro is an affordable – if a little rigid –introduction to smart lights for your home.
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Internet of Medical Things: How Connected Devices are Changing Healthcare
The number of connected medical devices – the ones communicating with other systems via the Internet – is growing steadily. These smart things gather and transmit a mountain of healthcare data. Even such small gadgets as fitness trackers and smartwatches can provide quite a bit of health-related metrics, including heart […]
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A brief overview of IBM’s new 7 nm Telum mainframe CPU
A typical Telum-powered mainframe offers 256 cores at a base clock of 5+GHz.
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NASA’s Perseverance rover finally scooped up a piece of Mars
NASA’s Perseverance rover successfully gathered a bit of rock and soil from Mars on Wednesday, which marks the first time a sample has ever been recovered on the Red Planet. What happened: The rover drilled into a boulder called Rochette near Jezero Crater, successfully cutting out a finger-size core of […]
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Firefly launches its first rocket, but loses the launch craft in mid-flight explosion
Firefly launched its first rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, and on board it carried a number of payloads with an intended destination of low Earth orbit. The rocket took off as planned, and seemed to be doing fairly well during the initial portion of the launch, before […]
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Filings: NLRB is investigating two complaints by Apple employees, including one by senior engineering PM Ashley Gjøvik who alleges workplace harassment and more (Reuters)
Reuters: Filings: NLRB is investigating two complaints by Apple employees, including one by senior engineering PM Ashley Gjøvik who alleges workplace harassment and more — The U.S. National Labor Relations Board is investigating two cases filed by employees against Apple, records on the agency’s website show.
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How to Accelerate Innovation in Today’s Digital Workplace
The growth of technology and innovation expands opportunities for making profits. According to Alex O’Byrne of We Make Websites, the pandemic has caused websites to “become the primary purchase path for many brands—rather than a secondary or alternative method to in-store.” The alternative method to in-store methods means merchants need […]
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Massachussetts AG greenlights Uber, Lyft-backed gig worker ballot initiative
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey gave a coalition of app-based service providers like Uber and Lyft the go-ahead to start collecting signatures needed to put a proposed ballot measure before voters that would define drivers as independent contractors rather than employees. Backers of the initiative, which is essentially a MA […]
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A brief overview of all the startups that pitched at Day 2 of Y Combinator’s Summer 2021 Demo Day (TechCrunch)
TechCrunch: A brief overview of all the startups that pitched at Day 2 of Y Combinator’s Summer 2021 Demo Day — Welcome back to TechCrunch’s continuing coverage of Y Combinator’s Summer 2021 Demo Day! This is Day Two. If you haven’t caught up yet on what happened during the first […]