US Breaks Ground On Its First-Ever High-Speed Rail Construction has begun on a $12 billion high-speed rail project to connect Las Vegas and Los Angeles by the end of the decade. The project, backed by $3 billion in federal support, aims to reduce travel time to under two hours and significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions. Popular Science reports: Brightline expects its trains will depart every 40 minutes from a station outside of the Vegas strip and another one in the LA suburb of Rancho Cucamonga. When it's completed, the train will travel a… Generative AI Arrives In the Gene Editing World of CRISPR An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Generative A.I. technologies can write poetry and computer programs or create images of teddy bears and videos of cartoon characters that look like something from a Hollywood movie. Now, new A.I. technology is generating blueprints for microscopic biological mechanisms that can edit your DNA, pointing to a future when scientists can battle illness and diseases with even greater precision and speed than they can today. Described in a r… iPhone Sales Drop 19% in China Apple's iPhone sales dropped sharply in China in the first quarter of this year as the company saw strong competition from domestic brand Huawei, according to a new report from market research firm Counterpoint Research. CNBC: Apple saw sales of its iPhones fall 19.1% in the first three months of the year, Counterpoint's data showed, as Chinese telecommunications and consumer electronics giant Huawei saw a resurgence in its smartphone business. The Shenzhen, China-based firm saw sales of its sm… Madica, a program by Flourish Ventures, steps up pre-seed investing in Africa Madica, an investment program launched by US-based investor Flourish Ventures to back pre-seed startups in Africa, plans to invest in up to 10 ventures by the end of the year, ramping up its funding efforts after closing three initial three deals. Madica disclosed the plans to TechCrunch indicating accelerated investing in the coming year as […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For persona… Japan's moon lander wasn't built to last - but it's still going 3 months in Japan’s first moon lander has survived a third freezing lunar night, Japan’s space agency said after receiving an image from the device three months after it landed on the moon The Meta-morphosis of Mark Zuckerberg The robotic nerd depicted in “The Social Network” has turned into the kinder, more accessible face of Silicon Valley. What’s going on? HPE Aruba boosts Wi-Fi 7 AP capacity, eases IoT network management HPE Aruba has rolled out new Wi-Fi 7 access points (AP) that are aimed at bolstering the capacity of wireless networks while eliminating the need for managing complicated IoT overlay networks. The new 700 series Wi-Fi 7 access points feature dual BLE 5.4 or 802.15.4/Zigbee radios and dual USB interfaces, and they support the 2.4, 5, and 6 GHz spectrum. The access points also contain enough memory… North Carolina lawmakers reconvene to address budget, vouchers before key elections The North Carolina Legislature begins its annual work session this week to address issues before elections this fall; their 2023 session restricted abortion and expanded Medicaid. Google fired at least 20 additional workers after last week's Gaza protest, group says The group that led protests last week at Google over a cloud computing contract with Israel said more Google workers were fired, bringing the total to more than 50. TSMC global workforce expanding fast TSMC continues to beef up its workforce to support the Taiwan-based foundry's fab expansion projects, and its global number of employees will exceed 80,000 by the end of this year, according to industry sources. |
F-Shape Pattern And How Users Read Scrolling, scanning, skipping: How do users consume content online? Here’s what you need to know about reading behavior and design strategies to prevent harmful scanning patterns. An upcoming part of Smart Interface Design Patterns . Wasmer unveils Python to Wasm compiler WebAssembly runtime maker Wasmer has unveiled py2wasm, a Python -to-WebAssembly compiler that transforms Python programs to the WebAssembly (aka Wasm) binary instruction format. Using a fork of the Nuitka Python compiler , py2wasm converts Python programs to Wasm, allowing them to run without interpreter overhead. Introduced April 18, py2wasm addresses a situation in which the performance of Python programs in WebAssembly has been less than ideal, Wasmer founder and CEO Syrus Akbary wrote in a … Apple cuts greenhouse gas emissions in half Apple’s 2024 Environmental Progress Report shows the company has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by more than 55 percent since 2015. Lincoln Corsair Vs Ford Escape PHEV: The Smartest Buy Isn't Always The Most Obvious Ford's Escape and Lincoln's Corsair both offer a plug-in hybrid version, but are you really being sensible for picking the cheaper of the two? Bang & Olufsen Beosystem 9000c: Price, Specs, Release Date Bang & Olufsen has released just 200 units of its new-old CD changer, but it reminds us that a corporation can’t ever delete a physical, plastic disc out of your great big honking CD collection. Get Microsoft Office 2019 for Windows or Mac for just $30 While there are many free office tools on the market, few utilities are as powerful as Microsoft Office. And right now, you don’t have to break the bank to get it. Now through 4/30, we’re offering Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 for Windows or Microsoft Office Home & Business 2019 for Mac for $200 off. Rated 4.8/5 stars by purchasers, both of these versions of Microsoft Office come with W… Senate passes bill banning TikTok if parent company does not sell it Bill gives app owner, ByteDance, a year to divest, and while Biden is expected to sign it, the company plans to fight it The Senate voted Tuesday to pass a bill that will either ban TikTok or force a sale of the short-form video app, giving its China-based parent company ByteDance up to one year to divest its crown jewel before facing deletion from US app stores. The vote was a landslide, with 79… The Right Chemistry: Niagara Falls and the nebulous positive effects of negative ions Negative ions, or "air vitamins," can be found near waterfalls and in forests. The same can't be said for their release from Himalayan salt lamps. Oracle scores big win with Fujitsu Japan for its Alloy partner cloud But Big Red's $8 billion investment plan may not be all it seems Oracle has had a big win in Japan that could turn into something enormous, and also revealed plans to score more success in the land of the rising sun.… |
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