The Future NASA is giving away an Apollo-era Saturn rocketCNET - by Eric Mack The space agency will happily unload the never-flown rocket onto an organization that can pay the quarter million dollars for shipping.
Nintendo Switch Consoles aren't selling because the next-gen is comingTNW - Rachel KaserSales of current-generation consoles are starting to drop dramatically — most likely because the next generation is on the horizon. While we won’t see new consoles until next year, it appears consumers
New ways to train custom language models – effortlessly!microsoft.com - Haim Sabo Video Indexer (VI), the AI service for Azure Media Services enables the customization of language models by allowing customers to upload examples of …
Play buttonScience The Weather Channel's moon landing simulation is real extraMashable - Caitlin WelshLook, we’re all psyched about the 50th anniversary of the moon landing on July 20 — but The Weather Channel is really, really into it. And we mean into it — as in, they’ve literally inserted themselves
ITV Hub BBC and ITV streaming service BritBox is finally coming to the UKEngadget - Daniel Cooper£5.99 a month for as much BBC and ITV archive content as you can handle. BritBox, the streaming service from two of Britain's largest broadcasters, will finally launch in the UK by the end of 2019. The
Long-form Journalism JoAnn Morgan's Apollo StoryThe Atlantic - Marina KorenJoAnn Morgan stood out against the sea of men in skinny ties and glasses. But she was right where she belonged. Editor's Note: This article is part of a series reflecting on the Apollo 11 mission, 50 later.
Jim Bridenstine Apollo 11's Buzz Aldrin tells Trump he's disappointed in NASAQuartz - Tim FernholzPresident Donald Trump on Friday welcomed the two living members of the Apollo 11 crew to the White House, where they promptly set to dismantling US space policy. Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins criticized
NASA Trump repeatedly asks NASA administrator why we can’t go straight to MarsThe Verge - Loren GrushOn Friday, President Trump commemorated the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 with a photo opportunity in the Oval Office, where he spent a lot of time questioning his administration’s own policy for deep
Science The Apollo 11 Landing Site: What's It Like Now?The Atlantic - Marina KorenThe American flag is bleached white. But some of the boot prints could remain undisturbed for tens of thousands of years. Editor's Note: This article is part of a series reflecting on the Apollo 11 mission,
Moon Lunar litterbugs, and other things you didn't know about Apollo 11ottawacitizen.com - Bruce Deachman • Among the objects left on the moon by the Apollo 11 mission are a gold olive branch, a defecation collection device, two urine collection …
Mobile Technology How to stop those annoying website notification promptsThe Verge - JR RaphaelBrowsing the web on a desktop computer can sometimes feel like a carefully crafted test of your sanity. You’ve got ads and auto-playing videos popping up left and right, and you’ve even got pop-ups from
Linux Mint Installing five flavours of Linux on my new laptopZDNet - J.A. Watson I got a very nice new laptop at a very good price, so I wiped Windows and installed Linux on it. One of the electronics chain stores here in …
Apollo Missions NASA just released gorgeous new panoramas from the Apollo missionsbgr.com - Mike Wehner The 50th anniversary of NASA’s Apollo 11 Moon landing is just days away, and with it comes a whole bunch of retrospective content from the space …
Science China’s Tiangong-2 Space Station Will Fall Out of the Sky Fridayfuturism.com - Dan Robitzski On Friday, China’s space station Tiangong-2 will be formally decommissioned — in brutal fashion. Tiangong-2 will fire up its thrusters and aim itself …
Vmware VMware acquires ML acceleration startup BitfusionTechCrunch - Frederic LardinoisVMware today announced that it has acquired Bitfusion, a former participant in our Startup Battlefield competition. Bitfusion was one of the earliest companies to help businesses accelerate their complex
Tesla Model 3 Tesla's Gigafactory 3 will be up and building cars by the end of the year, report saysRoadshow - by Kyle Hyatt Morgan Stanley sent a team of analysts to China, and their estimates for the new plant's success are pretty good -- though not as optimistic as Elon's.
Mozilla Mozilla's Tweaking Firefox's Password Manager to Tell You When Saved Logins Have Been StolenGizmodo - Andrew Liszewski You can’t spend hours combing through archives of breached data to see if your login credentials were leaked, so Mozilla’s rebranded in-browser …
OneDrive Microsoft Redesigns OneDrive for iOS -thurrott.com Microsoft is launching some major upgrades to the OneDrive apps for mobile devices. More specifically, the company is introducing a redesigned …
★ Apple Is Sending Out Another Silent Update To Fix the Webcam Flaw in Zoom’s Partner Appsdaringfireball.net - John Gruber Nicole Nguyen, reporting for BuzzFeed News:The fallout from Zoom’s massive webcam vulnerability continues. In a report published today, security …
Apple App Store Alexa wins the Apple App Store as voice control takes overcomputerworld.com - Jonny Evans We are all spending more time talking to our computers. This is a changing interaction with machines. Amazon’s meteoric climb up the Apple App Store …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoCathedrals NYT: ‘Notre-Dame Came Far Closer to Collapsing Than People Knew’daringfireball.net The New York Times conducted scores of interviews and reviewed hundreds of documents to reconstruct the missteps — and the battle that saved …
Mobile Technology Wacom’s new Cintiq 22 is a bigger addition to its entry-level pen display lineThe Verge - Dami LeeAfter launching the $649 Cintiq 16 earlier this year, Wacom is releasing a larger version of its entry-level tablet with the Cintiq 22. The tablet has a 21.5-inch screen with a 1920 x 1080 resolution,
Play buttonSpaceX SpaceX’s ‘Starhopper’ bursts into flames during static fire testTechCrunch - Devin ColdeweySpaceX’s test vehicle, a small-scale demonstration craft for some Starship components, caught fire after what appears to be a fuel leak or dump following an otherwise successful static fire test last It’s
Apollo Missions Apollo 11's 50th anniversary: Here's what to know about the first moon landingCNET - by Jon Skillings It's been five decades since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed in the Sea of Tranquility. And now we're heading back.
Dark Matter Physicists Wonder: Why Has No One Been Killed by Dark Matter?Gizmodo - Ryan F. Mandelbaum The fact that no one has died from being struck by dark matter is enough proof to rule out certain ideas about the mysterious stuff, according to one …
Technology iPhone loyalty falls to all-time low, new report suggests9to5Mac - Chance MillerA new survey today claims that iPhone loyalty has fallen to an all-time low. The survey, conducted by BankMyCell, says that iPhone retention is down 15 percent over the last year. As detailed by CNET,
Technology Policy Microsoft warns 10,000 customers they’re targeted by nation-sponsored hackersArs Technica - Dan Goodin Hacking remains a tool of choice for influencing elections, company warns. Microsoft said on Wednesday that it has notified almost 10,000 customers in …
Technology What awaited the astronauts when they returned to Earth after the Apollo 11 moon landing?ABC News - Enjoli Francis, Jennifer Metz and Eric Noll Before the ticker-tape parades and the heroes' welcome home, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, the U.S. astronauts responsible for …
Apollo Missions They Were at Mission Control During Apollo 11. 50 Years Later, the Memory Still Moves Them to TearsTIME - Olivia B. WaxmanThe words spoken by astronaut Neil Armstrong when he became the first man to step foot on the moon — at 10:56 pm Eastern Time on July 20, 1969 — have since become one of the most famous sentences ever
