Monthly Archives: June 2020

Boeing successfully tests Starliner's parachutes ahead of second flight attempt

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Boeing has a lot to prove before Starliner can make its second attempt to reach the ISS. One of the tests it has recently conducted focused on parachute reliability — in particular, the company wanted validate that the vehicle’s parachute system can…

Source: Engadget – Boeing successfully tests Starliner’s parachutes ahead of second flight attempt

Telegram to pay $18.5 million and return $1.2 billion following SEC crypto charges

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Telegram’s initial bid to launch its “Gram” cryptocurrency has failed. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced today that in order to resolve charges of violating federal securities laws, it has ordered Telegram to return more than…

Source: Engadget – Telegram to pay .5 million and return .2 billion following SEC crypto charges

China Approves COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate For Military Use

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schwit1 writes: Same vaccine being tested in Canada. But China just skipped ahead and approved it for one year for its soldiers without full long-term data. The COVID-19 vaccine (Ad5-nCoV) in question is developed by China’s Academy of Military (AMS) research unit and CanSino Biologics. Clinical trials proved it was safe and showed some efficacy, according to the company.

Reuters says the company has not disclosed whether the inoculation of the vaccine candidate is mandatory or optional, citing commercial secrets. “AMS received an approval earlier this month to test its second experimental coronavirus vaccine in humans,” adds Reuters.

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Source: Slashdot – China Approves COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate For Military Use

Google Photos will no longer back up WhatsApp and Instagram images by default

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Google Photos will no longer back up images from WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and other messaging and social media services, the service announced (via Android Police). According to a community message, Google is doing it to save resources because “…

Source: Engadget – Google Photos will no longer back up WhatsApp and Instagram images by default

First Apple Silicon Benchmarks Destroy Surface Pro X

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As expected, developers with early access to Apple silicon-based transition kits have leaked some early benchmarks scores. And it’s bad news for Surface Pro X and Windows 10 on ARM fans. Thurrott reports: According to multiple Geekbench scores, the Apple Developer Transition Kit — a Mac Mini-like device with an Apple A12Z system-on-a-chip (SoC), 16 GB of RAM, and 512 GB of SSD storage — delivers an average single-core score of 811 and an average multi-core score of 2871. Those scores represent the performance of the device running emulated x86/64 code under macOS Big Sur’s Rosetta 2 emulator.

Compared to modern PCs with native Intel-type chipsets, that’s not all that impressive, but that’s to be expected since it’s emulated. But compared to Microsoft’s Surface Pro X, which has the fastest available Qualcomm-based ARM chipset and can run Geekbench natively — not emulated — it’s amazing: Surface Pro X only averages 764 on the single-core test and 2983 in multi-core. Right. The emulated performance of the Apple silicon is as good or better than the native performance of the SQ-1-based Surface Pro X. This suggests that the performance of native code on Apple silicon will be quite impressive, and will leave Surface Pro X and WOA in the dust.

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Source: Slashdot – First Apple Silicon Benchmarks Destroy Surface Pro X

Use intent parsers for your open source home automation project

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In part 1 and part 2 of this series on the Mycroft open source voice assistant, I laid the groundwork for learning how to create a skill. In part 3, I walked through creating an outline for a skill and recommended creating the skill in pure Python first to ensure the methods work as intended.read more

Source: LXer – Use intent parsers for your open source home automation project

Intel vs. AMD, Systemd-Homed, Kernel Advancements Top H1'2020 For Linux

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It’s been quite an unfortunately wild year thus far with everything going on in the world, but at least within the open-source / Linux scope it’s been an exciting time as ever. Here is a look at the top stories on Phoronix during the first half of this year…

Source: Phoronix – Intel vs. AMD, Systemd-Homed, Kernel Advancements Top H1’2020 For Linux

NTT

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Foundation: 1952

Headquarters: Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo

President: Jun Sawada

Website

The Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, commonly known as NTT, is a Japanese telecommunications company. From its establishment in 1952 until 1985, it was a state-owned enterprise. Currently, the NTT Group consists of NTT East, NTT West, NTT Communications, NTT Docomo, the latter two listed separately on the stock market. Its annual income is in the range of US$110 billion.

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Source: Akihabara News – NTT

Amazon will let you co-watch Prime videos with friends in the US

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Amazon’s new Prime Video feature could help you stay connected with friends even while social distancing. If you’re in the US, you can now host and attend a Prime Video Watch Party, a new option for desktop that lets you co-watch with friends and fel…

Source: Engadget – Amazon will let you co-watch Prime videos with friends in the US