Few hells are worse than getting stuck in traffic. To help, Waze started test-piloting its separate Carpool feature back in 2015 and in its latest update, you can now invite multiple strangers to hop in the car with you.
Source: Gizmodo – Google Is Slowly Turning Waze Into a Rideshare-Meets-Hitchhiking App
Today, a group of bipartisan senators are introducing the largest highway legislation in history. The America’s Transportation Infrastructure Act of 2019 proposes investing $287 billion over five years in federal transportation projects. While it inc…
Source: Engadget – Bipartisan highway bill proposes billion for EV charging corridors
On Monday, Uber announced it had laid off a third of its marketing department. According to the New York Times, an internal email said the team had “grown bloated.”
Source: Gizmodo – Uber Only Has 800 Marketing People Now
With less than half a year to go before support ends for Windows 7, about three-quarters of computers in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) are still running the OS. From a report: Just over one million computers in the NHS are still using Windows 7, according to a written answer from the Department of Health and Social Care. Having so many machines still running Windows 7 is a problem, according to Jo Platt MP, shadow cabinet office minister, as the end of extended support in January 2020 will mean no more fixes and patches without a costly custom-support deal. “With less than six months before Windows 7 support expires, it is deeply concerning that over a million NHS computers, over three quarters of the total NHS IT estate, are still using this operating system,” she says.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – 76% of UK’s National Health Service PCs Not on Windows 10 Despite Looming Deadline
Kubernetes is an open source platform for managing containerized workloads and services that facilitates declarative configuration and automation.
Source: Linux Today – Core components of a Kubernetes Cluster
As you may have heard, Equifax—the company responsible for a poorly handled, cataclysmic data breach that exposed the personal information of nearly 150 million people—has reached a settlement that will see the company finally begin to pay out damages to those who were affected. But the Federal Trade Commission is now…
Source: Gizmodo – Look Out for Fake Equifax Websites That Are Trying to Steal Your Data, FTC Warns
Today on Highlight Reel we have bad Madden injuries, colliding grenades, actually lucky horseshoes, and much more!
Source: Kotaku – Madden 20 Player Gets The Worst ACL Tear In History
About a month and a half ago, even though we’re still a couple of months out from its expected launch later this fall, Google released the first official pic of Pixel 4 . Then today, Google teased another couple features for its upcoming flagship smartphone including face unlock and a new type of gesture recognition…
Source: Gizmodo – Google Looks to One-Up Apple with Face Unlock and New Motion Sense Gestures on Pixel 4
Reports have swirled for days of Google paying people $5 in gift certificates to scan their faces, and now it’s clear just why: it’s for the Pixel 4. Google has confirmed to The Verge that the paid scans were meant to improve the accuracy of the Pix…
Source: Engadget – Google paid passers-by for face scans to improve the Pixel 4
Wolfenstein: Youngblood is a video game with microtransactions, which is another way of saying that there are some who will object to its existence out of principle. Some people became so angry about microtransactions in the new game that they harassed one of its lead level designers, Mitja Roskaric, on Twitter,…
Source: Kotaku – Wolfenstein: Youngblood’s Microtransactions Aren’t Even Worth Getting Mad At
2DayGeek: Linux admin should understand the /etc/fstab file format, that helps them in many ways.
Source: LXer – Understanding the /etc/fstab File in Linux
The Canadian government said on Wednesday it is investing C$85 million ($64.70 million) in an Ottawa-based satellite company as part of an effort to provide better broadband internet access to rural and remote communities. From a report: Innovation, Science and Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains said the funding would be used by Telesat to build and test technologies that use low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellites to boost connectivity. “This new, space-based system will provide a dramatic and disruptive improvement over existing satellites,” Telesat Chief Executive Officer Dan Goldberg said, adding that the technology will be affordable and reliable. LEO satellites operate 36 times closer to the earth than traditional telecommunications satellites. This means they take less time to send and receive information, leading to better and faster broadband service, even in rural, remote and northern areas.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Canada Invests Million in Satellite Company To Narrow Broadband Gap For Remote Areas
Earlier this month, Florida’s conservation authority urged homeowners to exterminate invasive green iguanas “whenever possible,” without the need for permits. The accidental shooting of a pool maintenance worker by an iguana hunter has now prompted state officials to clarify that directive, saying Florida is not the…
Source: Gizmodo – Florida Clarifies Its Directive to Kill Iguanas ‘Whenever Possible’ After Florida Man Gets Shot
Scientists from the University of California San Diego have created the ultimate contact lens. The new contacts seem like something straight out of science fiction, as they are able to zoom in on your surrounding with the blink of an eye.
Perhaps we should say more accurately; with a double-blink of the eye. The soft contact lenses are
Source: Hot Hardware – Researchers Develop Contact Lens That Lets You Zoom, Enhance In The Blink Of An Eye
Earlier this month AMD’s Linux driver team sent out their initial open-source patches bringing up the “Arcturus” GPU as a new Vega family product. Today a second batch of patches adding in two thousand more lines of Linux kernel driver code were sent out…
Source: Phoronix – AMD’s Linux Driver Gets Power Management In Order For Unreleased “Arcturus” GPU
This is a short video from the Bwindi National Park in Uganda of an Augur Buzzard hovering in midair while searching for some small rodent and lizard snacks below (previously: a kestrel hunting in high winds with its head perfectly stabilized). Mother Nature, am I right? “What about her?” She’s gotten really good at Photoshopping the strings out of these bird videos.
Keep going for the clip.
Source: Geekologie – Hawk Hovers In Midair While Searching For Prey Below
This quick tip teaches you various ways to find all the broken symlinks in Linux command line
Source: Linux Today – How to Find Broken Symlinks in Linux
This December, Star Trek’s first foray into the wild beyond of interstellar exploration that is, uh, Hollywood turns 40. To celebrate, Fathom Events is bringing it back in style with a set of limited screenings.
Source: io9 – Star Trek: The Motion Picture Is Coming Back to Theaters, 40 Years Later
For the past two years, Madden games have included story modes about a fictional up-and-coming NFL quarterback named Devin Wade. In Madden 20, you can still play a single-player story about a would-be quarterback, but this time you design him yourself, from his facial features to his strengths on the field. It’s a fun…
Source: Kotaku – Madden NFL 20’s Replacement For Story Mode Falls Short
It’s not entirely fair to say Kyle “Bugha” Giersdorf became a millionaire overnight. You don’t beat out millions of other players on the path to winning the first Fortnite World Cup without untold hours of practice and playing at a consistently high…
Source: Engadget – Teen ‘Fortnite’ champion won more than Tiger Woods at the Masters