Tag: Sharp

Zuckerberg Goes Off-Script, Blasts Apple and Google in Testimony

During today’s testimony before a Congressional antitrust panel, Mark Zuckerberg went off-script a little bit pointing out how Facebook lags behind a number of competitors, including Alphabet, Amazon.com and Apple. From a report: Zuckerberg isn’t hesitating to use some sharp elbows, pointing out that Amazon is the fastest-growing advertising platform and Google is the biggest. “In many areas, we are behind…

Small asteroid passed extremely close earlier today

The Mt. Lemmon survey discovered the asteroid on July 26. It was labeled near-Earth asteroid 2020 OY4. The asteroid then passed at about 11% of the moon’s distance early in the day on July 28. The Virtual Telescope Project in Rome captured its image. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/near-earth-asteroid-2020-oy4-close-pass-july-28…

Ask Slashdot: How Long Do You Expect Your Smartphone To Last?

Long-time Slashdot reader shanen is facing “the death of another smartphone from acute battery swelling.” And he wants to know if you’re having the same problem: It seems to me that they’ve become quite good at designing smartphones to last two years and little longer, which is a bit worrisome since my primary phone is entering into its third year. Can…

Big drop in Earth’s surface vibrations seen during covid-19 lockdowns

Earthquake monitoring stations have detected sharp reductions in Earth’s surface vibrations during coronavirus lockdowns due to limits on noisy human activities Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2249574-big-drop-in-earths-surface-vibrations-seen-during-covid-19-lockdowns/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

Covid-19 Immunity From Antibodies May Last Only Months, New Study Suggests

CNN shares some bad news. “After people are infected with the novel coronavirus, their natural immunity to the virus could decline within months, a new pre-print paper suggests.” The paper was co-authored by 37 researchers from seven different institutions:
The paper, released on the medical server medrxiv.org on Saturday and not yet published in a peer-reviewed medical journal, suggests that antibody responses…

IBM Job Ad Calls For a Minimum 12 Years’ Experience With Kubernetes — Which is Six Years Old

IBM’s Global Technology Services has posted a job ad calling for candidates with a “minimum 12+ years’ experience in Kubernetes administration and management.” From a report: Which is a little odd because the first GitHub commit for the project was made on June 7, 2014. And the feature freeze for version 1.0 was announced on May 22, 2015. Sharp-minded Reg readers…

Here’s how to see Jupiter’s four largest moons

Jupiter is now at its best time of the year for viewing, so turn your binoculars or telescope on the giant planet for a glimpse of its 4 largest Galilean moons. Source: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/how-to-see-jupiters-moons…

Nearly 70,000 Tech Startup Employees Have Lost Their Jobs Since March

Technology startups have been laying off tens of thousands of workers to cope with the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, potentially blunting a key innovation pipeline for the enterprise information-technology market, according to industry analysts. From a report: “Startups are a great source of innovation in the IT industry, but are now especially cash constrained,” said Max Azaham, a senior…

Satellites detect upsurge in tree felling across Europe since 2016

Between 2016 and 2018, there was a sharp rise in the area of forest felled in countries across Europe, perhaps to feed demand for wood-based products Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2247601-satellites-detect-upsurge-in-tree-felling-across-europe-since-2016/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…