For the past few years, Estimote has sold wireless tracking beacons to companies including Amazon, Apple, and Nike, promising a more precise way to map the movement of products, equipment, and people—all in the name of boosting productivity and efficiency.Now Estimote is touting its wearable beacons as a way to combat the spread of the…
Becky Cherney is shivering again. It is the middle of April, but the temperature hangs around 40 and the air is raw and damp. Wearing a knit hat, heavy wool socks, and three layers under a gray fleece jacket, she has been outside for hours in the back of Ann Arbor Distilling Company’s parking lot…
As an Italian-American, I’m required by law to talk to you about the pop culture recountings of our mafia history. There are the obvious touchstones: Goodfellas and The Godfather. I even sat through all three and a half hours of The Irishman at a cramped Broadway theater. (Remember when we could do things like that?)But…
(CNN)Say goodbye to the days of only being able to express your emotions through the generic sad, happy, angry or thumbs up emojis on Facebook. Facebook rolled out its Avatar feature to users in the US this week, after launching it last year in other countr…
Disney has ordered all unauthorized clones of Club Penguin to be shut down after a fan-run clone was found by the BBC to be exposing children to explicit messages.During the COVID-19 pandemic, a fan-made Club Penguin Online server was flooded with over a million new players. Usually this would be enough for Disney to order…
Ubisoft’s latest financial report included new details on microtransaction spending for Rainbow Six Siege and Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey. In short, both are performing very well in regards to microtransansactions.Ubisoft categorizes microtransactions as Player Recurring Spending (PRI), which covers digital items, DLC, season passes, subscriptions, and advertising. The team-based tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege enjoyed “record…
00:00 (upbeat electronic music) 00:02 [Narrator] If you think riding 00:03 in an airplane is exhausting, 00:07 To keep those metal tubes 00:08 from disintegrating in midair, 00:10 Boeing employees install some 60,000 rivets 00:16 It’s the kind of hard, repetitive work 00:18 that can injure your shoulders, back, and arms, 00:21 so Boeing brought…
In 1997, NASA launched a spacecraft to Saturn. This intrepid explorer, called Cassini, spent the better part of 13 years orbiting Saturn and studying it and the planet’s many moons. The craft not only found odd-shaped storms in Saturn’s atmosphere, it also discovered new small moons around Saturn, observed geysers of water shooting out from…
The yearly beach vacation? Canceled. That backpacking trip with high school friends? Scrapped. Nevertheless, you must make the most of what you have. A socially distanced summer doesn’t mean you can’t spruce up your own private outdoor space to make the most of the warmer months. Over the years, I’ve had many opportunities to turn…
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. Would actual space battles in the future need skilled pilots? Not if artificial intelligence can take the controls.20th Century Fox/Courtesy Everett CollectionIn Max Barry’s new novel Providence, a four-person crew sets out into deep space to battle aliens. It’s a scenario that recalls many classic science fiction…
