Space Launch System Program is Finally Slowly Dying Brian Wang | February 13, 2021 | NASA has switched to the SpaceX Falcon Heavy to launch the first two pieces of the Gateway lunar outpost in 2024. This will be a $331 million contract and will use a modified version of the Falcon Heavy. NASA is…
Elon Musk Increasing His Tesla Ownership Brian Wang | February 12, 2021 | Elon Musk owns 22.4% of Tesla and 54% of SpaceX. SpaceX is now worth about $60 billion and Tesla is $783 billion. Elon is worth $205 billion from Tesla and SpaceX. Elon also owns most of the Boring Company and Neuralink. Elon…
Micro OLED Displays for Better Augmented Reality Brian Wang | February 12, 2021 | Apple has partnered with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) to develop advanced micro OLED display technology. Micro OLED will be useful for augmented reality devices. The new displays will be built directly onto wafers. They will be far thinner and smaller and…
Environment 13 February 2021 By Adam Vaughan Bill GatesCourtesy of the author How to Avoid a Climate Disaster Bill Gates Allen Lane (buy from Amazon) “I am aware that I am an imperfect messenger on climate change,” writes Bill Gates in his book on why he thinks the world can get to zero greenhouse gas…
Environment 13 February 2021 By Adam Vaughan Bill Gates’s private jet at Kristiansand airport in Kjevik, NorwayScanpix Norway/PA Images Bill Gates has admitted to flying on a private jet to the Paris climate change summit in 2015. Green campaigners say the revelation, made in his new book on reducing carbon emissions, undermines the billionaire philanthropist’s…
Stadia has struggled, but pre-installing the service on Chromebooks could give it a boost. IDG / Hayden Dingman Today’s Best Tech Deals Picked by PCWorld’s Editors Top Deals On Great Products Picked by Techconnect’s Editors Google’s making a play to turn Chromebooks into gaming platforms, stating this week that new Chromebooks will ship with the…
Updated The best solid-state drives can supercharge your PC. Here are our picks for the best SSDs, and what you should know before a purchase. Rob Schultz/IDG Today’s Best Tech Deals Picked by PCWorld’s Editors Top Deals On Great Products Picked by Techconnect’s Editors Table of Contents Show More Switching to a solid-state drive is…
Be ready to slam that F5 button. Nvidia Today’s Best Tech Deals Picked by PCWorld’s Editors Top Deals On Great Products Picked by Techconnect’s Editors When Nvidia announced the $329 GeForce RTX 3060, the first mainstream graphics card in the company’s new RTX 30-series family, it was saddled with an obscure “late February” launch date.…
Handling a pandemic is hard work. Lucky for Joe Biden, he’s discovering his predecessor did most of the heavy lifting.Mr. Biden ran on two big promises. One was national unity, which he has redefined as Republicans agreeing to his agenda. The other was to “get control of the virus that’s ruined so many lives”—enabled, he says,…
An ice storm has frozen Texas, leading to widespread power outages, hazardous travel conditions, felled tree branches and a fatal pile-up involving more than 100 vehicles near downtown Fort Worth. FORT WORTH 100-VEHICLE PILEUP LEAVES AT LEAST 6 DEAD, MULTIPLE PEOPLE INJURED: OFFICIALSA polar vortex around the U.S.-Canadian border is the cause of the extreme weather in…
