The drone launched on June 15. courtesy US Army In mid-June, a drone called the Zephyr took off from Arizona. The solar-powered aircraft remained in the sky, flying through the rest of June, all of July, and about half of August. It flew, according to the Army, more than 34,500 miles. It even ventured over…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
His hedge fund investors didn’t want to listen to him when, in 1999, Julian Robertson questioned the sanity of the prices being paid for shares in nascent internet companies. So months after being berated for 15 minutes at an annual shareholders meeting at the Plaza Hotel in New York in October 1999, he began the…
Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu under attack by US B-17E bombers during the Battle of Midway on June 4, 1942. US Navy After World War II, there was no doubt that aircraft carriers were the dominant naval weapon. By the end of the war, the Allied powers had nearly 200 carriers in service. The Axis powers…
Ashraf Ghani, former president of Afghanistan, waits to take the lectern to address the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters, September 19, 2017 in New York City. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani spoke to CNN a year after fleeing Kabul. In the interview, he rejected allegations of cowardice and corruption. “I’ve…
Gen Xers’ share of total household wealth is barely half of that held by baby boomers, and impacts brought on by the coronavirus pandemic haven’t helped this financially unstable cohort. In the Gen X amid the Pandemic Report, Insider Intelligence assesses US Gen Xers’ finances and how they’ve been affected by the pandemic. Do you work…
Meta accounts have arrived. As of today, Facebook parent company Meta has begun rolling out the new login system for Quest owners. “The update will roll out globally on a gradual basis, so if you don’t have the option to create a Meta account and Meta Horizon profile right away, you’ll get the update soon,”…
At the beginning of this month a rumor surfaced claiming that, for the first time ever, Apple would decouple an iPadOS release from an iOS release this year, outing iPadOS 16 about a month after iOS 16. Today Apple itself has confirmed just that. In a statement provided to TechCrunch, the company said this: This…
Ray, which enables machine learning models to scale across hardware resources, has released Ray 2.0 to simplify building AI workloads.Read MoreRead More
A zombie in Dead Island 2 | Image: Deep Silver Amazon is launching a new tool called Alexa Game Control that’s designed to let gamers use natural language voice commands so they can accomplish actions in video games. The first game to feature the technology will be the zombie-filled Dead Island 2, which was just…
Image: Apple Yesterday, Apple revealed it would expand its Self Service Repair program to let you fix your own MacBooks, and today the program is here. You can now download full repair manuals for your 2021 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros and the 2020 13-inch M1 MacBook Pro and M1 MacBook Air — and shop…