And I’m here to burst your bubble following the news of Samson Sky’s successful FAA inspection. This week, after 14 years of design, R&D, and fundraising, Samson Sky, creators of the Switchblade flying car, announced that after an inspection by an FAA agent, the vehicle successfully completed high-speed taxi testing and is ready to take flight. Specifically, the company repeated high-speed acceleration runs down the runway up to take-off speed....
If, however, you have a tin ear for music, it’s time to feverishly hit repeat on some pretentious tracks that you don’t actually like. Those who neglect this duty shall be granted a Wrapped that leaves them ostracized by their friends and family (sorry, grandma). For those of you in the latter camp, I have some tragic news: you’re already too late. Tracking for this year’s Spotify Wrapped ended on October 31....
Disney execs have dubbed today to be “Triple Force Friday,” a day when they reveal their new toys and merch ahead of the film’s release. Le Creuset’s new products were part of this, presumably targeted towards a more mature breed of fan. And I admit, they look pretty good. We’ve got Millennium Falcon trivets, a Porg pie bird, a round Dutch oven with Darth Vader’s helmet etched into the lid (a comparatively subtle design too), and three mini cocottes painted to resemble each of the series most famous droids....
According to TMZ, an engineer associated with Musk visited the Escobar’s business compound somewhere around the summer of 2017. During that time Escobar allegedly discussed developing a “toy flamethrower” with the engineer. Apparently no further discussions were held between the two camps, which left Escobar shocked when The Boring Company announced it was developing its own flamethrower in January of 2018. Also per the report: Escobar and company are considering their legal options....
But my review was written after only a few days with the earbuds; though that’s normally long enough to make a useful assessment, sometimes my impressions of a product change over the course of long-term usage. In the case of the Pixel Buds, my impressions have only changed for the better. 10 months later, I like them even more. And that’s saying a lot; I get to try a lot of true wireless headphones in this job....
— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) May 20, 2021 Granted, the first Apple Store was in Virginia, but the company’s most famous shop is the probably Fifth Avenue Cube in Manhattan. That’s where Microsoft opened its flagship store too, although now it is just an ‘experience center.’ Google’s store will instead be located in the Chelsea neighborhood, where Google’s NYC headquarters are located. The store will feature a variety of hardware, including Pixel phones, Nest devices, Fitbit trackers, and more....
Many businesses viewed these chatbots as a cheap panacea to all customer service problems but, in reality, this idea never came to fruition. In the last year or so, businesses should have realized that the idea of the chatbot as a magical one-size-fits-all solution, is dead. So, the notion of the all-providing IM chatbot that was once hailed as the answer to all our customer service automation needs, is dead....
People sometimes call these transitions “pivots”— but that’s not exactly accurate. Each company’s journey to the enterprise has followed the natural trajectory of its business, and every journey is different. The enterprise shift is often just the next step on a steady march of monetization. This was true at SurveyMonkey, too. Our own shift came, in part, when we realized that our use cases were rapidly expanding and not all had equal value....
The tech industry is not known for having great interviewing processes. From the notorious whiteboard interviews to algorithm challenges requiring a computer science degree to even wrap your head around, there are all kinds of outdated standards and approaches to interviewing developers that should have died out years ago. Unfortunately, like most legacy systems we love to hate, these interview processes are likely to crop up in your career from time to time....
This is where 3D printing could come in, allowing astronauts to construct whatever their lunar colony needed from raw materials. Much of the excitement around 3D printing in space has focused on using it to construct buildings from lunar rock. But my research suggests it may actually be more practical to use this moondust to supply lunar manufacturing labs turning out replacement components for all sorts of equipment. Technically known as additive manufacturing, 3D printing comprises a sophisticated group of technologies that can produce physical products of almost any shape or geometrical complexity from digital designs....
The show is also a showcase of some standards we’ve been hearing about, but haven’t seen in devices. Here are some of those technologies that we might see a lot in the coming years. Mini-LED We’ve all been used to the LCD tech, which uses a white backlight and liquid crystal filters to generate colors, and OLED tech, which uses organic compounds that can light up and produce colors. Usually, LCD displays offer a brighter picture, but OLED offers better contrast levels....
Robotics is a huge part of so many industries today from healthcare to manufacturing and logistics to construction. The industry has the potential to positively transform lives and work practices, raise efficiency and safety levels and provide enhanced levels of service across various different sectors. There has never been a better time to get involved in this field. But where are the top places to launch or kick-start a career in robotics?...
Creative ideas for advertising do not come out of thin air — it is a systematic process that can be decomposed into various methodologies. But let’s be honest, startup founders and teams don’t always have that many resources to spend on applying special methodologies. Luckily, there are much simpler rules that will help filter out the bad ideas before spending the advertising budget. Our team has gone through the path of trial and error on the way to enjoy CTR and CPI metrics — and now it’s time to share....
On one end of the spectrum are the hard-skeptics. The hard-skeptics believe that bootcamps are selling snake oil–it’s impossible to teach what they claim in three months. If you went to a bootcamp you were a victim. On the other end of the spectrum are the evangelists. In their view, the fact that software engineering bootcamps work proves one of their priors: traditional education is broken, bloated, and corrupt. School has a lot to learn from bootcamps....
If you’re a first-time EV buyer, there’s a lot of information to take in, and even more opinions on which is the best vehicle to choose. We’ve narrowed down the five most important things to consider when you’re buying your first EV. 1. You could get thousands of $ in government subsidies Let’s start with one of the biggest reasons to buy an EV: governments around the world have made them more affordable than ever....
But like all programming languages, in Python, everything depends on you, the programmer. You decide whether your code looks professional or ugly. Fortunately, Python has a vast array of built-in features that can help you write code that is elegant, concise, and expandable, the kind of characteristics you expect from a professional programmer. Here some of my favorite tricks, which I think every Python developer should know. 1. List comprehensions List comprehensions are one of the key features of Python that help you write code that is more concise and elegant....
Hacktivism has since retreated as a form of protest, in part due to the prosecution of prominent hacktivists, sometimes with what appear to be disproportionately severe sentences. But with the ongoing pandemic restricting physical protests globally, and new bills being drawn up to curb offline protest, it looks as if hacktivism may be set for a return. My research into hacktivism and cybercrime helps place hacktivism in its historical context – from which we can understand how, where and why hackers may soon resort once again to digital protest across the world....
OpenCV is a huge image and video processing library designed to work with many languages such as python, C/C++, Java, and more. It is the foundation for many of the applications you know that deal with image processing. Getting started with OpenCV can be challenging, primarily if you rely on its official documentation, which is known for being cumbersome and hard to understand. Today we will learn how to work with OpenCV, and I’ll do my best to keep it simple....
In a recent study, funded by the UK government, we found evidence that participating in one particular accelerator (which will remain anonymous) was associated with an increase in business survival rates, investment raised, and growth in the number of people employed. This could be vital as new businesses struggle to thrive in increasingly uncertain economic times. On our last count, there were a total of 163 accelerators in the UK....
nCore describes the title as “a new multiplayer mid-core” game based on the real scenarios faced by Indian soldiers in the Galwan Valley at the Indo-China border. Days after banning 59 Chinese apps, including TikTok and Helo, Narendra Modi announced a challenge for Indian developers to make apps under the name Atma Nirbhar Bharat (Self-dependant India) banner, including games. The company said FAU-G is a game to support that challenge....
