As an illustrator, I rely on existing imagery to learn about subjects I haven’t seen with my own eyes, especially when most of these creatures live in the deep sea. When I started to work on my picture book Luminous: Living Things That Light Up the Night, my first question was: what do bioluminescent creatures…
Waymo said it plans to launch a robotaxi service in Los Angeles, another sign that the Alphabet subsidiary is accelerating its commercial ramp up. Waymo has had a presence in Los Angeles since 2019, periodically coming in to map neighborhoods, including downtown, Miracle Mile, Koreatown, Santa Monica, Westwood and West Hollywood. The announcement Wednesday has…
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As the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) investigates Microsoft’s $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Microsoft recently revealed in its filings with the CMA that it plans to create a new “Xbox Mobile Platform” that will include mobile games by Activision and King. “The transaction will improve Microsoft’s ability to create a next-generation game…
The Biden-Harris administration, through the Department of Energy (DOE), announced Wednesday that 20 battery companies will receive a combined $2.8 billion to build and expand commercial-scale facilities in 12 states. This is the first phase of $7 billion in total from President Biden’s Infrastructure Law that aims to strengthen domestic battery supply chains and reduce…
Autonomous ride-hailing company Waymo, a division of Google’s parent company Alphabet, Inc., announced Wednesday that Los Angeles will be its “next ride-hailing city.” So Angelenos will soon notice Waymo’s eye-catching, gadget-heavy driverless cars on LA roads as the company eyes offering its services in as many parts of the Los Angeles area as are feasible….
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European web hosting firm IONOS and its UK subsidiary Fasthosts have opened a new data center situated at Worcester Six Business Park, and will be migrating all its data from the current Gloucester colocation it previously used. Costing approximately £21 million, the migration is set to take 18 months to complete and willl provide 1.5…
A “fully undetectable” backdoor has been brought to light thanks to the malware operators’ reckless behavior. Cybersecurity researchers from SafeBreach Labs claim to have detected a brand new PowerShell backdoor which, when executed properly, gives attackers remote access to compromised endpoints. From there, the attackers could launch all kinds of stage-two attacks, from infostealers, to…
The 1970s were notorious for many things, but an achievement somewhat forgotten by history is the notoriously good-sounding – and cool-looking – hi-fi gear produced during that era. Audio companies like JBL, Yamaha, and Marantz have been glancing back at their classic 1970s speaker and amplifier designs to create new versions with the same look…