Month: April 2021
NASA’s Mars copter survives brisk night alone in key pre-flight test
NASA’s mini Ingenuity helicopter survived its first night all alone on the surface of Mars after getting dropped off by Perseverance on Saturday. Weathering frigid Martian temperatures, the newly deployed rotorcraft passed an important test of independence, giving engineers confidence to proceed with a series of warming-up exercises in preparation…
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PS5, RTX 3060, RTX 3070, and more now on Newegg Shuffle for a limited time PS5 internal storage concern
*Update: After the event began, Newegg added the PS5 to the Shuffle, so you still have about 25 minutes to win a chance to buy the hard to find console.* Newegg’s Shuffle event for April 6, 2021, from 2pm to 4pm EST, was all about hard to find graphics cards,…
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How A Facial Recognition Tool Found Its Way Into Hundreds Of US Police Departments, Schools, And Taxpayer-Funded Organizations
A controversial facial recognition tool designed for policing has been quietly deployed across the country with little to no public oversight. According to reporting and data reviewed by BuzzFeed News, more than 7,000 individuals from nearly 2,000 public agencies nationwide have used Clearview AI to search through millions of Americans’…
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Ikea is working with Sonos on a hidden speaker built into art you hang on the wall
Ikea and Sonos are starting to tease the next products that the two companies have collaborated on. The furniture giant today posted an Instagram story that directly mentions the “Symfonisk” line and flashes the Sonos logo at the end, so there’s little doubt that new hardware is coming soon. Two…
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Putting Belfast on the TechCrunch map — TechCrunch’s European Cities Survey 2021
TechCrunch is embarking on a major new project to survey European founders and investors in cities outside the larger European capitals. Over the next few weeks, we will ask entrepreneurs in these cities to talk about their ecosystems, in their own words. This is your chance to put Belfast on…
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RTX 3060, RTX 3070, RX 6700 XT, and more now on Newegg Shuffle for a limited time Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060
Newegg’s Shuffle event for April 6, 2021, from 2pm to 4pm EST, is all about hard to find graphics cards, including the RTX 3060, RTX 3070, RX 6700 XT, RX 6900 XT, and RTX 3090. How to throw your hat in the ring during Newegg Shuffle drawings The way Newegg…
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