Month: February 2020
2021 NASA budget request includes $3.3B for human lunar landers, $430M for Moon resource development
The Trump White House today issued its fiscal 2021 budget request, and it included a 12% increase in requested funding to NASA’s coffers, as expected. That puts the total request for NASA at $25.2 billion, nearly half, or $12.3 billion, of which is earmarked specifically to support NASA’s efforts to…
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Lock My PC fights tech support scammers with free recovery keys
In order to stop tech support scammers from abusing its software, FSPRO Labs has removed Lock My PC from the public domain and the company is now providing free recovery keys to affected users. The company offers both a free and a business version of its Lock My PC software…
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Facebook Workplace co-founder launches downtime fire alarm Kintaba
“It’s an open secret that every company is on fire,” says Kintaba co-founder John Egan. “At any given moment something is going horribly wrong in a way that it has never gone wrong before.” Code failure downtimes, server outages and hack attacks plague engineering teams. Yet the tools for waking…
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Fiat Chrysler plans to launch a robot taxi service in China
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, one of Detroit’s “Big Three” automakers, is collaborating with Chinese startup AutoX to deploy robot taxis in China later this year, the companies announced. It’s the latest move by FCA to cast a wide net for autonomous vehicle suppliers as it seeks to catch up to its…
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Microsoft’s Surface Go is more affordable than ever today
This story is part of a group of stories called Only the best deals on Verge-approved gadgets get the Verge Deals stamp of approval, so if you’re looking for a deal on your next gadget or gift from major retailers like Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, Target, and more, this is…
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Score a free Nintendo Switch Lite with the new Samsung Galaxy A51 and A71 deals
Christmas has most definitely past, now an entire decade behind…technically. And while that means there is absolutely no excuse for you to still have a tree in your house, decorations or any Christmas cheer and motivation left in your system, it does not mean you don’t deserve a gift. And…
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