The Víctor M. Blanco 4-m Telescope and other telescopes on a mountain peak in Chile at sunset | Image: CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/B. Tafresh For decades, the standard way to search for asteroids in our Solar System has been to scan the night sky for fast-moving specks of light — but a new method of hunting for these space rocks…
Now that’s what I call a Zoom room. | Image: @POTUS/Twitter President Joe Biden tweeted his Zoom rig on Friday, and it looked so good I suddenly needed to know everything about it. The tweet wasn’t about his video gear, of course; it was to pat himself on the back for falling gas prices. But…
Today, the National Football League launched its streaming service NFL+ which has been officially priced at $4.99 per month or $39.99 per year. However, with this launch, the outgoing NFL Game Pass will no longer be offered in the United States. The NFL+ subscription will include all live out-of-market preseason games, live local and primetime…
Snap, the parent company of the popular Snapchat social media service, reported earnings last week that investors rejected. In the wake of its second-quarter financial reporting, shares of Snap cratered from $16.81 Thursday afternoon, before its earnings report, to around $10 per share as of this morning. Snap was not the only victim of its…
Tuned, Meta’s social app for couples, is winding down a little over two years after it launched. Users including this reporter began receiving a notification about the impending shutdown last week, advising them to download their data before September 19, when the app will cease to work. Tuned was a project under Meta’s New Product…
Intel’s on-going push to regain traction in chip manufacturing scored a nice vote of confidence this week, as Taiwan’s MediaTek agree to a “strategic partnership” with the company. The deal finds MediaTek utilizing the Intel Foundry Services process to produce future chips, as the company looks to broaden its global manufacturing footprint. Intel has been…
Meta announced today that creators on Facebook can now earn money through their Facebook videos that use licensed music. The company is launching “Music Revenue Sharing” to allow video creators to include licensed music in their videos on Facebook and earn a share of in-stream ad revenue. The company says this opens up a new…
Building a startup takes money. Not exactly a newsflash, is it? At a time when every dollar counts, this is a reminder that you have only five days left to take advantage of early-bird pricing on passes to TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20. The early bird flies the coop on July 29 at 11:59 p.m….
SAVE $110.99: As of July 25, the student-friendly Samsung Chromebook 4 (Intel Celeron Processor N4000, 4GB RAM 32GB eMMC) is on sale for only $119 at Amazon and Walmart. That’s 48% off its suggested retail price of $229.99. It’s easy to get suckered into impulse-buying one of Apple‘s MacBooks for school, especially now with the…
When Google engineer Blake Lemoine claimed an AI chat system that the company’s been developing was sentient back in June, he knew he might lose his job. On July 22, after placing him on paid leave, the tech giant fired Lemoine for violating employment and data security policies. Lemoine, an engineer and mystic Christian priest,…