Month: June 2020
Kitty Hawk ends Flyer program, shifts focus to once-secret autonomous aircraft
Kitty Hawk is shutting down its Flyer program, the aviation startup’s inaugural moonshot to develop an ultralight electric flying car designed for anyone to use. The company, backed by Google co-founder Larry Page and led by Sebastian Thrun, said it’s now focused on scaling up Heaviside, a sleeker, more capable…
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Snapchat’s ‘dynamic ads’ product for e-commerce retailers rolls out worldwide
Snap today announced the global expansion of its new advertising product, Dynamic Ads. The ad product introduced last fall allows advertisers to automatically create ads in real time, using the brand’s extensive product catalogs. Snap provides a variety of mobile-ready templates for advertisers to choose from, then serves the ads…
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Annual PS Plus and PS Now memberships drop to $42 at Amazon
If your PlayStation Plus membership is about to expire, now is a good time to extend it. Amazon has discounted 12-month pre-paid PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now subscriptions to $42. While we seen retailers like Newegg sell annual PlayStation Pl… Source
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Blaming protesters for COVID-19 spread ignores the bigger threats to health
Gatherings in every state in the country this week to protest police brutality may be followed by increased numbers of COVID-19 cases in the next few weeks, state health departments warn. But a narrow focus on whether the number of COVID-19 cases may spike after protests is a distraction from…
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AMD beats Intel and Nvidia with more than half a billion GPUs sold
AMD has shipped more than half a billion GPUs since 2013, beating out rivals Intel and Nvidia. That’s according to Jon Peddie Research (JPR), which claims AMD has shifted some 553 million GPUs since entering the market seven years ago. Compared to its competitors, AMD accounted for 22% of the…
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NYC’s push for citywide contactless transit payment is delayed by COVID-19
Last May, New York City’s Metro Transit Authority opened out the first contactless payment systems at select subway station turnstiles. The systemwide rollout was set to be completed at all subway stops and buses this October. Like so many things in this life, however, COVID-19 put a damper on those…
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