Dyson Scraps Electric Vehicle Plans
Ouch! After committing $2 billion to the project, the company no longer believes it’s commercially viable. Dyson had formed a team of hundreds of engineers, acquired a Michigan battery technology company and committed more than $2 billion to the effort. It subsequently outlined plans for testing facilities in England and a factory in Singapore. But…
Comcast raises broadband speeds across Northeast
Good news for those downloading 4k content. Philadelphia-based Comcast has hiked broadband speeds in different regions recently and rolled out the speed increases Thursday in 14 states from Maine through Virginia. Download speeds for some plans will be up 60 percent, the company said. For more, check out this Inquirer.com story.
Californians are without power to curb wildfire risk
I can’t even fathom an utility company choosing to turn off the power. More than 1 million Californians were in the dark Wednesday in the first phase of a multi-day Public Safety Power Shutoff aimed at curbing wildfire risks amid high winds and hot, dry conditions. For more, check out this USA Today story.
Ancient lost city uncovered in Israel
The 5,000-year-old metropolis was one of the first of its kind in the region. Archaeologists recently discovered an ancient lost city north of Tel Aviv. This large, 5,000-year-old city, bustling with around 6,000 people, was the “early Bronze Age New York,” of the region and likely one of the first complex cities in what is…
AMD Introduces Radeon RX 5500 Series Graphics
AMD announced the Radeon RX 5500 series graphics products, harnessing RDNA gaming architecture to deliver the high-performance, high-fidelity 1080p gaming. The AMD Radeon RX 5500 series includes the Radeon RX 5500 graphics card that will be available in desktop PCs from leading manufacturers and graphics cards from board partners, as well as the Radeon RX…
Safety Agency Gathering Info on Tesla Parking Lot Feature
Near-crashes have been reported after a software update lets customers bring their car through parking lots with no one at the wheel. Someone at work has this feature and was showing it off recently. The U.S. government’s highway safety agency is gathering information on reports of malfunctions with a Tesla feature that lets drivers summon…
Win10 Favored CPU Core Optimization
This sounds like a good thing. With Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0, an operating system will use information stored in the CPU to identify which cores are the fastest and then push more of the CPU intensive tasks to those cores. According to Intel, this technology “delivers more than 15% better single-threaded performance”. For…
How SNL pulled off Billie Eilish’s performance
If you saw Saturday Night Live this past weekend, you saw an interesting performance. Billie Eilish turned heads as the first musical guest on Season 45 of “Saturday Night Live” Saturday with a performance of her hit song “Bad Guy” that appeared to show her walking on the walls and ceilings of Studio 8H. For…
Elon Musk Updates Starship Progress
SpaceX’s Starship and Super Heavy launch vehicle is a reusable transportation system designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and anywhere else in the solar system. On Saturday, September 28 at their launch facility in Cameron County, Texas, SpaceX Chief Engineer and CEO Elon Musk provided an update on…
Digitally de-aged Robert De Niro shows us how far the tech has come
I saw a clip of this movie on one of the late shows and was thoroughly impressed. Martin Scorsese’s long-awaited mob movie “The Irishman” is a decades-long epic that uses de-aging visual effects on the film’s stars — Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Al Pacino. The latest Mach at the Movies looks at how…