Month: June 2020
NASA names headquarters after Mary Jackson, the agency’s first Black female engineer
NASA has announced it will name its headquarters in Washington DC after the agency’s first Black female engineer, Mary Jackson. Jackson started work at NASA’s predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), in 1951 at the then-segregated West Area Computing Unit. She took night classes in mathematic and physics…
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Virgin Media broadband down across UK null
Customers are reporting faults in their Virgin Media broadband connection this morning across the UK. The outage began around 09:20 BST on Thursday, according to tracking site DownDetector, with customers flocking to social media to complain about a lack of connectivity, with mobile internet and TV services also affected. Around…
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iOS has a ‘hidden’ feature that could change how you navigate your phone iPhone 11 Pro Max
When Apple unveiled iOS 14 it announced a few of the key features, but as with all Apple software drops it seems that some of the coolest new additions weren’t detailed – instead, we’ve had to wait for users testing the iOS 14 developer beta to discover any ‘extra’ features,…
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How open source communities work How open source communities work
The world in 2020 looks very different from a year ago. Where previously cities were bustling and offices were busy, now they are all but deserted as many organisations ask their employees to work from home. Many organisations, including Red Hat, made the decision to close all offices as early…
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Your Amazon Echo can now recreate the sound of your favorite places Amazon Echo
Lockdown has meant that many of us have had to make do without going to our favorite places, whether that’s the pub or your local beauty spot – and now, Amazon has announced some new Alexa Skills that could help ease some of those lockdown woes. If you have an…
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Amazon Honeycode is a no-programming-needed app builder for businesses
Amazon Web Services customers now have an easy-to-use app-building tool at their disposal. The e-commerce giant has launched a fully managed service called Honeycode that allows AWS clients to build interactive mobile and web applications with no pro… Source
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