SpaceX launched 58 new Starlink satellites on its Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday morning, and three satellites from Planet tagged along for the ride. The SpaceX satellites are part of its growing Starlink constellation, which it’s building to provide internet connectivity on Earth. The company has permission to launch some 12,000 satellites as part of […]
Computex 2020 has been canceled. The event joins a long list of in-person trade shows, conferences, and events that never went ahead this year as a result of Covid-19. Back in March, officials decided to push Computex’s date back from June 2 June 6 to September 28. The move wasn’t without precedent in 2003, the […]
Zoom is working on new features that will allow it to block users based on their geographical location after admitting it recently suspended Lee Cheuk-yan, Wang Dan and Zhou Fengsuo who are based in the US and Hong Kong at the request of the Chinese government. The company was widely criticized for suspending the accounts, […]
Kelly Passek a middle school librarian in Montgomery County, Virginia is sending out summer reading via drones. After using the quadcopters from Wing to get some home essentials, she realized that she could use the service to literally drop some knowledge on local students. After seeing how quickly her household goods and meals were delivered, […]
NASA has confirmed that the James Webb Space Telescope won’t be ready in time for its scheduled March 2021 launch. Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA associate administrator for science, said in a Thursday meeting of the Space Studies Board of the National Academies that COVID-19 has caused work to fall behind schedule. “We will not launch in […]
Sony finally unveiled the design of the PlayStation 5 today and it certainly… stands out. You won’t be able to miss it next to your TV or your on your desk. Whether or not that’s a good thing or a bad thing is up to you. Until now, all that Sony had confirmed about its […]
Sony’s Insomniac Games is working on Spider-Man: Miles Morales, a PS5-bound sequel that, as the name implies, puts you in the shoes (and superhero suit) of Peter Parker’s protege. The brief teaser didn’t show much in the way of gameplay, but it’s clear the game will get a visual boost over its PS4 predecessor. You […]
Sony kicked off its PlayStation 5 reveal event on Thursday with the announcement that Rockstar Games’ seminal open-world blockbuster Grand Theft Auto V will be releasing for the next-gen console sometime in 2021. The game was first released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles back in 2013 at the end of the sixth […]
Gran Turismo 7 is heading to the PlayStation 5, Sony announced today. It’s the next game in Polyphony Digital’s popular racing series. Sony didn’t share a release date. Sony didn’t reveal much about the game, but it did show a map that seems to be used in the game’s campaign mode as well as an […]
Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service is still riddled with limitations, but one of the biggest hurdles to adoption may have just disappeared you no longer need a specific Android phone to give it a try. Google is experimentally opening up support to any Android phone that can install the Stadia app, which means most devices […]
Ford has spent the last few years promising it will make an all-electric version of its extremely popular pickup truck, the F-150. Now the company is saying it will go on sale by the middle of 2022 what’s expected to be the biggest year for new vehicle launches in decades, according to a new study […]
Microsoft has followed competitors Amazon and IBM in restricting how it provides facial recognition technology to third parties, in particular to law enforcement agencies. The company says that it does not currently provide the technology to police, but it’s now saying it will not do so until there are federal laws governing how it can […]
Photoshop Camera affords more than 80 custom filters, many of which were inspired by today’s top artists and influencers like Billie Eilish. You also get various portrait controls, an auto-tone feature that brightens up dark areas and tones down overblown sections of images and AI-powered editing. Some lightweight editing tools are also onboard for things […]
Do you share the same concerns as the facial recognition protesters? Are you also concerned about how you can escape the watchful eyes of facial recognition systems? Here is a rundown of things you can start doing today. Outfit Sweatshirts with hoodies on them will help protect most of your face from these systems. You […]
Tesla is ready to send its electric big rig into volume production. “It’s time to go all out and bring the Tesla Semi to volume production. It’s been in limited production so far, which has allowed us to improve many aspects of the design,” Musk said in the memo seen by CNBC. According to the […]