Tag: engine

Largest Hybrid Electric Plane Set To Take Flight

Ampair, a Los Angeles clean tech company in my neck of the woods, is set to begin accepting orders for a hybrid electric aircraft at the EAA AirVenture airshow in Wisconsin next week. Dubbed the EEL, the aircraft is in fact a retrofit of a Cessna 337, an aircraft that has a forward-mounted prop engine that pulls and a rear-mounted prop…

Google’s Project Dragonfly ‘Terminated’ In China

An executive at Google said the company’s plan to launch a censored search engine in China has been “terminated.” The project was reportedly put on hold last year but rumors that it remained active persisted. From a report: “We have terminated Project Dragonfly,” Google executive Karan Bhatia told the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. Buzzfeed, which reported the new comments, said it…

Intel’s Pohoiki Beach is a Neuromorphic Computer Capable of Simulating 8 Million Neurons

During the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Electronics Resurgence Initiative 2019 summit in Detroit, Michigan, Intel unveiled a system codenamed “Pohoiki Beach,” a 64-chip computer capable of simulating 8 million neurons in total. From a report: Intel Labs managing director Rich Uhlig said Pohoiki Beach will be made available to 60 research partners to “advance the field” and scale up…

TurboGrafx-16 Mini Launches In March With 50-ish Games

You’ll be able to complete the trifecta of tiny 16-bit throwback systems on March 19, 2020, when Konami releases the TurboGrafx-16 Mini. From a report: It’ll include Dracula X, Bonk’s Revenge, Gradius and many more games, including many Japanese exclusives. Konami said last week that it will sell the device exclusively through Amazon, with preorders opening up on Monday, July 15…

Cloudflare Comes Clean On Crashing a Chunk of the Web Earlier This Month

Cloudflare has published a detailed and refreshingly honest report into precisely what went wrong earlier this month when its systems fell over and took a big chunk of the internet with it. The Register reports: We already knew from a quick summary published the next day, and our interview with its CTO John Graham-Cumming, that the 30-minute global outage had been…

Can Google Ads Change Your Beliefs?

The New York Times ran a disturbing opinion piece about Google by the founder of search engine marketing consulting firm Berlin SEM. In it he discusses counter-messaging ads offering “redirection”, where marketers “swerve your monetizable desperation. But we can also swerve something bigger: your beliefs, convictions and ideology.” There are advertisers in the digital marketing industry who want to find out…

Trending Tech Skills

New technologies are changing the way the world works. As a result, governments and organizations are looking for talent with skills that will prepare them for the future. According to our analysis of global skills, demand for technology skills has increased 13% across the globe in the last year. Other important skills like Kubernetes, robotic […]
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Google Tweaked Algorithm After Rise In US Shootings

A senior search engineer at Google revealed that the company had to tweak its algorithm to combat misinformation after mass shootings. The Guardian reports: “In these last few years, there’s been a tragic increase in shootings,” Pandu Nayak, who joined the company 14 years ago to work on its search engine, said. “And it turns out that during these shootings, in…

Brave Browser Claims 69x Better Performance For Its Ad-Blocker After Switching From C++ To Rust

The Brave web browser “claims to have delivered a ’69x average improvement’ in its ad-blocking technology using Rust in place of C++” reports ZDNet. They cite a blog post by Brave performance researcher Dr. Andrius Aucinas and Brave’s chief scientist Dr. Ben Livshits:
The improvements can be experienced in its experimental developer and nightly channel releases… “We implemented the new engine in…