Whether you want to create new pieces for “Settlers of Catan” or teach students how to bring models to life, a 3D printer deserves a place in your workspace. The tools required for additive manufacturing can get pricey, though, so it’s good news that there are lots of Amazon Prime Early Access Sale 3D printer…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Meryl Rowin WHEN ACTION PARK first opened its gates on a New Jersey ski mountain in 1978, people probably showed up expecting run-of-the-mill amusements: go-karts, a lazy river, maybe a casual wave pool or two. But the 2,700-foot Alpine Slide, a track made of concrete, fiberglass, and asbestos that zigzagged through the funfair, was something else…
Believe it or not, there are still a fair number of large businesses that run on mainframe computers – yes, even in 2022. It may seem like a throwback from a time gone by, but it’s still a significant part of some enterprise computing stacks. The question becomes, how can those companies move this data…
At its Cloud Next conference, Google Cloud today announced that it is unifying all of its business intelligence products under the Looker brand. Google’s $2.6 billion acquisition of Looker closed back in 2020, marking the first major acquisition for Google Cloud under the leadership of Thomas Kurian. As part of this move, Google Data Studio…
Google Workspace, the company’s set of productivity tools most recently known as G Suite, is getting a major update at the company’s Cloud Next conference this week. This includes quite a few customer-facing features, but maybe even more importantly, Google is using this occasion to open up Workspace with new integrations and developer tools that…
Regulation around crypto is far from final in the U.S., and some would argue that the path is just being paved. As crypto-focused bills are being introduced to Congress, there are a few the industry and regulators should keep an eye on, according to a new report by Prime Trust. To date, Congress has introduced…
Google today announced its plans for a major expansion of its physical Google Cloud infrastructure. The company plans to launch new Google Cloud regions in six new countries: Austria, Czech Republic, Greece, Norway, South Africa and Sweden. That’s on top of the regions in Milan, Paris, Madrid, Columbus and Dallas the company already announced and…
Meetings — nobody wants them but everybody has them. So for those times when you’re in a meeting but mostly just surfing the web, it’s nice to have a transcript to make sure you didn’t miss that one important nugget of information that actually pertains to your job. Google knows this, so the company today…
The coming wave of satellite constellations all need power, but solar panels built for space are extremely expensive and difficult to manufacture. Solestial is ready to change that with space-grade panels built using inexpensive, scalable processes, and it just raised $10 million to take its tech from lab to orbit. The company, formerly known as…
Cloud data breaches in the enterprise have skyrocketed in the last year — a worrying trend that’s led to the emergence of a host of new tools and services to help better secure that environment; as well as a major mobilization among cloud service providers to launch more specific tech to address the gap. Today…