Month: April 2021
The NYPD is sending its controversial robot dog back to the pound
The New York Police Department has canceled its trial of a robot dog made by US firm Boston Dynamics after receiving fierce criticism regarding the “dystopian” technology. “The contract has been terminated and the dog will be returned,” a spokesperson for the NYPD told the New York Post. John Miller,…
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Halo Infinite will let you jump seamlessly between Xbox Series X and PC Halo Infinite
Halo Infinite is easily the biggest upcoming game from Microsoft’s Xbox Game Studios, and while it’ll launch day and date across Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S and PC, players on PC won’t be barred from carrying over any progress made on console. Microsoft’s Head of Xbox Game…
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Microsoft joins power-packed tech alliance to find new uses for WebAssembly coding
Microsoft has joined the list of tech heavyweights in the Bytecode Alliance, centered around the WebAssembly open standard. WebAssembly was conceptualized as a means to enable browsers to execute compiled programs directly. This allowed developers to have their applications in C, C++ and Rust and run at native speed within…
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Myspace Tom got it right
Two days after the DC insurrection, as the country was still processing the aftermath, MySpace co-founder Tom Anderson posted his second tweet of the past three years. Anderson attached the thinking emoji to an amateurish Photoshop render of Donald Trump, sitting in one of his typically garish offices, with his…
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Blue Origin will start selling tickets for New Shepard space tourism flights on May 5
Blue Origin seems very close to flying paying customers on its New Shepard sub-orbital rocket, having conducted a dress rehearsal of astronaut loading and unloading on its latest mission. Today, it also revealed that it will be selling the first ticket (tickets?) on board its inaugural commercial flight starting next…
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AWS is helping make Disney+ even bigger AWS Office
The Walt Disney Company has announced an expansion of its existing collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for the global rollout of the Disney+ video streaming service. Amazon said that its cloud computing subsidiary has been working with Disney since its inception. But before announcing the streaming service, Disney spent…
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