Category: Tech

AT&T’s telecoms chief is retiring amid industry upheaval

Post author By Randall
Post date August 26, 2019
Categories In 5g, at&t, att, att tv, att tv now, atttv, atttvnow, business, directv, directv now, directvnow, gear, hbo max, hbomax, john donovan, johndonovan, retirement, streaming, Tech, Verizon

[ad_1] He’s held the top job in AT&T’s telecoms unit for two years. Donovan’s current remit includes AT&T’s mobile and internet networks, as well as some of the company’s convoluted streaming platforms — the WarnerMedia unit is in charge of HBO Max. “It’s been my honor to lead AT&T Communications during a period of unprecedented […]

Baidu takes second place from Google in the smart speaker market

Post author By Randall
Post date August 26, 2019
Categories In Amazon, baidu, business, gadgetry, Gadgets, gear, Google, Google Home, google home mini, Home, Nest, smart speaker, Tech

[ad_1] An abysmal performance by Google further helped Baidu. The company shipped 4.3 million Home and Nest-branded devices in Q2 2019, down from 5.4 million during the same period last year. The drop in shipments represents a 19.8 percent year on year decline for Google. Notably, of the five main companies included in today’s report, […]

Tesla will reportedly raise prices in China again this week

Post author By Randall
Post date August 26, 2019
Categories In business, China, electric vehicle, electricvehicle, ev, gear, price increase, priceincrease, tariff, Tech, Tesla, trade war, tradewar, Transportation

[ad_1] Last week, China announced a raft of new levies on $75 billion of imported American goods. Among them was a plan to revive a 25 percent tariff on US cars that was suspended last December, along with an extra 10 percent levy on certain cars and five percent on auto parts. Those would bump […]

You need a password manager — right now

Post author By Randall
Post date August 26, 2019
Categories In 1password, badpassword, dashlane, gear, Internet, lastpass, norton, password, passwordmanager, personalsecurity2019, Security, Tech, thebuyersguide, Video

[ad_1] On top of all this, there are the accounts we need to just to keep the lights on, so remembering every single password is impossible. It’s enough to make anyone want to table-flip the internet. (I wish it was possible, I really do.) We have a heaping helping of password fatigue with a side […]

KFC is testing Beyond Meat ‘chicken’ in an Atlanta restaurant

Post author By Randall
Post date August 26, 2019
Categories In atlanta, beyond meat, Chicken, Food, food and drink, food-and-drink, foodanddrink, gear, kentucky fried chicken, kfc, restaurant, Tech, vegan, vegetarian

[ad_1] KFC had acknowledged talking to suppliers months ago to investigate meatless chicken, but didn’t have any definitive plans until now. This could mark a triumphant return for Beyond Meat’s chicken efforts. It pulled its meatless chicken from grocery stores earlier in 2019 after deciding it didn’t meet the company’s standards. Clearly, it’s ready to […]

Experiments with a single atom rule out the ‘fifth force’ theory of dark energy

Post author By Randall
Post date August 26, 2019
Categories In atom interferometer, atoms, dark energy, imperial college london, Space, Tech, tomorrow

[ad_1] One possible explanation for the phenomenon is that dark energy is the fifth force acting on matter, along with the gravitational, electromagnetic, and strong and weak nuclear forces. Recently a team at Imperial College London decided to test this fifth force theory by performing an experiment on single atoms. The experiment worked by examining […]

5G isn’t ready for me

Post author By Randall
Post date August 26, 2019
Categories In 5g, at&t, att, gear, hands-on, Mobile, Samsung, Sprint, t-mobile, Tech, Uk, Verizon, vodafone

[ad_1] Over the spring and summer, the first 5G networks lit up over the US, with all the major carriers offering a 5G service of some kind. However, there are still only a few compatible phones to go around, the best of which is probably Samsung's Galaxy S… [ad_2] Source link

NASA’s new moon-landing supercomputer is more powerful and more eco-friendly

Post author By Randall
Post date August 26, 2019
Categories In aitken, artemis, electra, environment, Nasa, Space, supercomputer, Tech, tomorrow

[ad_1] Aitken can run simulations at up to 3.69 petaflops of theoretical performance and has 221 TB of storage. It has 1,150 nodes and 46,080 cores and is powered by a HPE SGI 8600 system using second-generation Intel Xeon processors with Mellanox InfiniBand for networking. To keep all that computing power cool, the housing module […]

Gene editing tool could treat many diseases created by mutations

Post author By Randall
Post date August 26, 2019
Categories In biology, crispr, crispr-cas9, disease, dna, gear, gene editing, genetics, health, medicine, mutation, salk institute, sati, Science, Tech

[ad_1] In lab testing, this had dramatic effects on progeria, a premature aging disease. Mice treated with SATI lived about 45 percent longer while seeing reduced aging effects. That would translate to over a decade for a human affected by the same condition. As is often the case with gene editing treatments, there’s still work […]

Volvo’s Polestar engineered XC60 is fast, but still reserved

Post author By Randall
Post date August 26, 2019
Categories In gadgetry, Gadgets, gear, hands-on, Polestar, Tech, Transportation, Volvo, volvo xc60, volvo xc60 t8 e awd polestar

[ad_1] On one hand, the vehicle’s cargo area, its ability to seat five (and a combination of Swedish luxury and performance) make it a great companion for a trek into the forest. But, the rather low Canadian speed limits and my concern about wildlife leaping into the road make pushing the vehicle to its potential […]