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‘Phoenix’ Aurora Spreads Its ‘Wings’ Over Abandoned Military Power Station in Russia
More than 4,000 photographers shot for the moon (and beyond) for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition in the U.K. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65776-astronomy-photographer-of-the-year.html
America’s NSA Challenges Students With A Codebreaking Competition, Then Recruits Them
This year America’s National Security Agency (NSA) is once again “developing a cyber challenge and daring more than 330 schools and 2,600 students to solve it,” writes Federal News Network. Slashdot reader eatvegetables shares their report:
Kathy Hutson, the senior strategist for industry and academic engagement at the NSA, said the Codebreaker Challenge has become one of the best ways to attract…
Amazon Expands Air Cargo Fleet With 15 More Planes, Will Have 70 Planes By 2021
Amazon announced this morning the expansion of its own air delivery network, Amazon Air. “The retailer says it’s leasing an additional 15 Boeing 737-800 cargo aircraft from partner GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS),” reports TechCrunch. “These will join the five Boeing 737-800’s already leased from GECAS, announced earlier this year. The aircraft will fly out of more than 20 U.S. air…
Secretive Magic Leap Says Ex-Engineer Copied Headset For China
Magic Leap, a secretive U.S. startup that makes a $2,295 augmented-reality headset, filed a lawsuit Monday accusing one of its former engineers of stealing its technology to create his own AR device for China. Bloomberg reports: In a lawsuit filed Monday, Magic Leap alleges that Chi Xu, who left in 2016, exploited its confidential information to “quickly develop a prototype of…
News Industry Argues Google and Facebook ‘Rob Journalism of Its Revenue’, Seek Government Help
This week USA Today’s former editor-in-chief argued that “Tech overlords Google and Facebook have used monopoly to rob journalism of its revenue,” in an op-ed shared by schwit1: Over the past decade, the news business has endured a bloodbath, with tens of thousands of journalists losing their jobs amid mass layoffs. The irony is, more people than ever are consuming news……
Amazon To Shut Down Its Amazon Restaurants Business
According to GeekWire, Amazon is shutting down its Amazon Restaurants food delivery service in the U.S. The service, which was first launched in Seattle back in 2015, gave Prime members a way to get meals delivered to their door, using the dedicated website or via the Prime Now shopping app. From the report: Amazon ended the program in London this past…
Ten US States Sue To Stop Sprint-T-Mobile Deal, Saying Consumers Will Be Hurt
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Ten states led by New York and California filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to stop T-Mobile’s $26 billion purchase of Sprint, warning that consumer prices will jump due to reduced competition. The complaint comes as the U.S. Justice Department is close to making a final decision on the merger, which would reduce the…
The Case Against Breaking Up Big Tech Companies
This week The Street ran a new article arguing that “Breaking Up Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook Is Not the Solution”: The Microsoft anti-trust case twenty years ago showed that judges are reluctant to break up companies even when there are definite signs of market abuse… Technology is a better solution to create competition. Things such as open-source software have made…
Sony Scraps Japanese-style Egalitarian Salaries in Battle For AI Expertise
Sony will increase salaries by up to 20% for new recruits with high-tech skills in fields such as artificial intelligence, moving away from the traditional Japanese emphasis on seniority to better compete in a battle for talent that crosses industries and international borders. From a report: Traditionally, new graduates hired by Sony all receive the same entry-level salary, then are assigned…