Month: March 2022
Google’s McLaren sponsorship puts the Android robot and Chrome wheels on its 2022 F1 car
Season five of Formula 1: Drive to Survive could potentially include scenes of McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown smashing a Chromebook or Android tablet, Tom Brady-style, thanks to a new arrangement between the team and Google. In 2020, McLaren exited its deal with OnePlus that produced several powerfully-specced black and…
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Google Chrome is apparently the fastest macOS web browser ever made
Audio player loading… Google is constantly working to improve the speed of its browser and it appears these efforts have paid off as Google Chrome recently achieved the highest score yet on Apple’s Speedometer 2.0 benchmark. Since the launch of Chrome back in 2008, the search giant has set out…
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The first NBA broadcast rendered with volumetric video puts basketball in the uncanny valley
Tonight the Brooklyn Nets and the Dallas Mavericks game is notable for reasons other than the basketball genius of Kevin Durant and Luka Doncic, it’s the first opportunity for us to watch a full game broadcast live with new technology. This season the Nets local broadcasts on Yes Network have…
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Amazon’s new role-playing game can help you build your AWS skills
Audio player loading… As part of its efforts to provide free cloud computing skills training to 29m people by 2025, AWS has released a new game-based 3D role-playing experience called AWS Cloud Quest: Cloud Practitioner. Designed by AWS Training and Certification, AWS Cloud Quest aims to help adult learners gain…
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Mike Myers returns to multi-character comedy in his Netflix show The Pentaverate
Mike Myers is making a return to comedy in a new, six-episode Netflix show called The Pentaverate, after years of rare movie appearances. If the trailer that premiered on Wednesday is anything to go by, it’ll be the type of project where Myers makes up almost half the cast —…
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James Webb Space Telescope’s latest selfie marks a milestone for the space observatory
New images from the James Webb Space Telescope show the latest big milestone for the space observatory: its 18 mirrors are now aligned enough to act as one massive mirror. The new images released by NASA today include a “selfie” from JWST showing the mirrors’ progress along with updated images…
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