Last June, Gene Quinn published an iconic article, “Yu v. Apple Settles It: The CAFC is Suffering from a Prolonged Version of Alice in Wonderland Syndrome,” in which Mr. Quinn evokes Lewis Carrol’s White Queen, “who was known to have sometimes ‘believed six impossible things before breakfast’” to describe the ridiculous nature of the Yu. v. Apple decision….
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) Six years ago, consumer virtual reality seemed set to be the next major tech breakthrough. With the demonstration of his impressive prototype Oculus Rift head-mounted display (HMD) in 2012, Palmer Luckey managed to instantly erase the poor image VR had garnered from ‘90s movies like The Lawnmower Man…
Enlarge / Collage of Crew-5 launch photos from Wednesday Oct. 5 2022. (credit: Trevor Mahlmann) Welcome to Edition 5.13 of the Rocket Report! Lots of news to discuss this week, as usual. Also, be on the lookout for a report from me early next week with some new information about a Washington-based startup, Stoke Space,…
Screenshots of tweets are one of the most popular ways to share tweets with friends or post them on your other social media accounts. But Twitter is now showing a pop-up to many users, asking them to share the tweet instead of taking a screenshot. Users are seeing different kinds of popups when they take…
Google said today that it will open its first data center in Japan by 2023. The company noted that this data center will be located in Inzai City, Chiba, and is a part of its $730 million infrastructure fund that will continue through 2024. This is the company’s third data center in Asia after Taiwan…
A show about seeking asylum in America, generational trauma, and cultural displacement hardly sounds like the recipe for a good comedy. But somehow, Netflix‘s Mo accomplishes this, while still shedding light on strife and struggle as an immigrant. Created by comedian Mo Amer, based on his own life, alongside Ramy Youssef, Mo explores the life…
Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong’s new Netflix series The Midnight Club has so many jump scares it smashed a world record and made me almost fall off my couch. The series based on Christopher Pike’s ’90s horror books has scored a Guinness World Record for the most jump scares in one episode — 21 in…
Meta’s Horizon Worlds platform – its first attempt at a social metaverse – is so bad even its own creators don’t like using it, according to the latest reports. The Oculus Quest 2 exclusive social media platform hasn’t yet taken the world by storm as Meta likely hoped it would after announcing its broad VR…
Nvidia’s RTX 4090 graphics card is a power-hungry beast, that’s a given, but we weren’t expecting to see some of the figures third-party card manufacturers are recommending for the wattage of the power supply (PSU) necessary for this GPU. In some cases, we’re looking at a recommendation of 1000W, and one company has even pushed…
A new report from Microsoft has urged companies to be on high alert for insider security threats that could pose a significant risk. According to the Microsoft Insider Risk Report, many employees that deal damage to their organizations, by facilitating data breaches, or similar, do it unknowingly. Employees stealing IP as they move to another…