NASA is suspending work on its troubled James Webb Space Telescope due to the coronavirus pandemic. “The James Webb Space Telescope team, also in California, is suspending integration and testing operations,” NASA announced in a statement. “Decisions could be adjusted as the situation continues to unfold over the weekend and into next week. The decision […]
SAN FRANCISCO — It was just after 11 a.m. last Wednesday when Jaime Maldonado, 51, pulled his rented Nissan into a lot outside San Francisco International Airport. He figured he had a long wait ahead — about two hours — before Lyft would ping him to pick up a passenger. Occasionally, jets roared overhead — […]
NASA is requesting that its employees work from home after a case of the coronavirus, officially called COVID-19, was confirmed at the Marshall Space Flight Center. “We recently received confirmation that an employee at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama has tested positive for COVID-19,” NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine said in a statement. This […]
Enlarge / Exterior view of a Googleplex building, the corporate headquarters of Google and parent company Alphabet, May 2018. Getty Images | zphotos The threat of the new coronavirus is making working from home a more and more popular option for tech companies, and yesterday Google expanded its work-from-home recommendation to all North American employees. […]
Google’s parent company Alphabet has asked its North American staff to work from home to reduce the potential spread of the coronavirus. Last week the tech giant sent a memo to staff recommending that employees in Washington state work from home. It has now expanded that request to all of its almost 100,000 workers across […]
In a call with reporters Friday, NASA officials said an independent investigation of the marred test flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft has produced 61 corrective actions and identified 49 gaps in Boeing’s testing procedures. A decision on whether Boeing will be allowed to proceed with flying astronauts or have to redo the test mission without […]
One-click photo edits tend to lack finesse and style — unless you make that one-click edit yourself. You can think of Lightroom presets as custom-built photo filters, turning an edit that originally took several minutes (or more) into one that’s easily applied to any image in a single tap or click. While buying Lightroom presets […]
This is a screenshot of a Fieldbit AR view of a water treatment plant. The user can see equipment identification and telemetry tagged directly to individual machines. Fieldbit Fieldbit isn’t a hardware company; their piece of the pie is in the software that provides the AR view. Workers don’t necessarily have to wear smart glasses; […]
WeWork CEO Adam Neumann with his wife, Rebekah NeumannBen Gabbe/Getty Images for Time WeWork CEO Adam Neumann and his wife, Rebekah Neumann, battled with contractors over bills related to the renovation of their $ 10.5 million Manhattan townhome. Between 2017 and 2018, four of the contractors ended up filing legal claims over alleged unpaid bills, […]
An all-new B4UFLY app has been released by the Federal Aviation Administrations (FAA) to help drone owners fly their machines safely and responsibly. The original B4UFLY app launched in 2016 but it was heavily criticized for being confusing, slow, and glitchy. Its poor performance eventually prompted the FAA to call upon the services of drone […]
NASA has tapped Elon Musk’s SpaceX to figure out a way to allow ships to refuel in orbit, the space agency announced Tuesday. According to a news release, SpaceX will help to advance propulsion technology — specifically, NASA has tasked SpaceX to solve the problem of in-space refueling, which would be groundbreaking since it’s never […]
With a seemingly endless sea of options and features, shopping for the right laptop can be challenging especially if you’re not a techie person. But if you’re looking for something that will meet your productivity, entertainment, and creativity needs, you may want to check out the Lenovo Flex 14 2-in-1 Convertible Touchscreen Laptop. This model […]
One of the big reveals at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the big game trade show in Los Angeles, was the unveiling of gameplay for Square Enix’s The Avengers game. The timing for this game (coming soon) is good because the film Avengers: Endgame has made about $ 2.7 billion at the box office so […]
We’ve written plenty about the disruptive impact cutting-edge technologies are going to have on the job market. According to some experts, approximately 43% of current jobs in the United States are at risk of automation in the coming years. According to the World Economic Forum, however, technology will also cause plenty of new jobs to […]