Month: February 2020
ProtoPie helps designers translate their work to engineering without the hassles
It’s the golden age of design for software companies. Designers are becoming more visible and popular on engineering teams, figuring out everything from the visuals of color palette and fonts to the deeper interaction flows and user experience journeys that underlie products. As my colleague Jordan Crook recently described, that…
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‘Human computer’ Katherine Johnson dies at 101
NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, whose calculations helped get the first Americans to space and back safely, died today at the age of 101. Among her many accomplishments, she completed the trajectory analysis for Alan Shepard’s 1961 suborbital flight, which was the first time the US sent a human into space.…
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Target breaks into the top 10 list of US e-commerce retailers
Target’s investments in store remodels, same-day delivery and drive-up services are paying off. The retailer, which used to rank No. 11 in U.S. e-commerce sales, has now jumped three spots to break into the top 10 list as the No. 8 retailer, according to a new report from analyst firm…
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Intel boosts data centre power with new Xeon chips
Intel has unveiled its second generation of Xeon processors as it looks to cement its leadership in the data centre space. Offering more cores, increased cache size and boosted processor frequency, the 2nd-gen Intel Xeon scalable chips are the company’s fastest and most effective data centre and server hardware to…
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The Xbox One will soon get the ability to eject discs with a controller
If you still use discs in your Xbox One, you might be happy to learn that the console will soon gain the ability to eject them from your controller (via VG247). According to the screenshot above, shared by an Xbox Insider tester who posted to the Xbox One subreddit, ejecting…
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Why deployments of internet of things have been slower than expected in UAE?
The widespread adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) has been a lot slower than expected in the UAE but it will gain traction with the rollout of 5G cellular technology, an official at Dubai-based telecom operator du said. Despite the availability of networks such as Sigfox, a proprietary system from…
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