Lightyear is a little known company that is developing a solar-powered EV. However, it has stopped production of this solar-powered EV after three months. It is doing something else instead.
I recently had someone reach out to me for help getting a job with the tech industry. They are a skilled developer with database, backend and frontend experience. They were slightly overwhelmed at the current tech market, and rightfully so. Big tech such as Meta, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have all had mass layoffs, among others.
Meta (parent company of Facebook) announced today that they are partnering with the NBA to offer viewing of games in VR (virtual reality).
Spotify was the latest big tech company to have mass layoffs, cutting around 10000 positions today (January 23, 2023).
Netflix, the streaming giant that revolutionized the way we consume television and movies, has come a long way since its humble beginnings as a DVD-by-mail service in 1997. Founded by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph, the company has grown to become one of the most influential players in the entertainment industry, with over 208 million subscribers worldwide.
I grew up in the 80s on very primitive computers compared to today's standards. I started with the BASIC language and moved on to QBasic, Visual Basic, C, C++ and finally C# where I found my favorite language :) I have a few thoughts about where humanity is headed with programming languages...
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize the way we live and work, bringing about unprecedented advancements in fields such as medicine, transportation, and energy. However, as humanity continues to push the boundaries of what is possible with AI, it is becoming increasingly important to consider the potential risks and downsides of this technology.
There is a growing amount of space debris, space junk, and satellite's orbiting the earth. Will this eventually become a problem that makes astronomy impossible and launching new satellite's difficult?
ChatGPT is being used for the brains to build a smart Siri, by a developer. This is useful for those who are frustrated with the current state of Siri and want a better experience.
ChatGPT is making headlines these days, and it has a lot of useful and creative purposes. But, there is a dark side to it. Here's some harmful ways people are using ChatGPT...
In October of 2022, Microsoft Azure released Cosmos Postgresql, a distributed relational database. This competes directly with AWS (Amazon) serverless Postgresql which also allows an autoscaling solution that can span multiple nodes.
T-Mobile was hacked in a giant data breach where 37 million accounts had their information stolen.
Chat GPT, the popular AI chat and question and answer system is hitting maximum capacity, according to IBL.
Google announced today that they are eliminating 12000 jobs or about 6% of their workforce.
We have 10 important tips to save power for your smart phone. This will save you time and having to charge it every day.
ChatGPT has been making quite a number of headlines lately with its ability to write articles and snippets of code. Is it going to one day replace human programmers and bloggers? Or will it fizzle out. Investors are betting on the former.
Nvidia has a GeForce Now RTX 4080, the most advanced cloud gaming platform yet, and you can rent it for $20 a month.
There is a 22 year old who is trying to save us all from AI and Chat GPT before it changes writing forever.
NASA made an announcement today for work with Boeing on a special type of aircraft that is fuel-efficient and single-aisle. It will be used commercially and will cut fuel emissions to reduce climate impact from flying.
Elon Musk Tweeted that he had funding secured to take Tesla private 4 1/2 years ago. He is on trial for that now.
Microsoft announced a huge layoff today, cutting 10000 positions. Satya Nadella said that Microsoft had been impacted by changes in the global economy.
If you pay monthly, a blue check mark at Twitter costs $96. You can now pay for a year and pay only $84.
Chat GPT is an artificial intelligence software. It stands for Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer. Essentially, it's a chat "bot" that functions as best as a normal person would given the input queries it receives.
The Keychron Q1 Pro is a wireless option of the original Q1, which is a mechanical keyboard. This is one of the best keyboards you can buy on the market right now. The reason is because it is now wireless.
An average of 1600 tech jobs have been lost each day of 2023 so far. Big companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Salesforce and Amazon have had huge waves of layoffs.
Anyone who shops on Amazon.com knows that you can find almost anything you are looking for. This includes solid state hard drives. Lately, there has been something weird: 1TB and 2TB hard drives from well known brands like Samsung and SanDisk listed along with the 16TB hard drives.
We can see a laser beam shooting up into the sky that can apparently deflect lightning strikes, according to a Swiss-based project in what scientists are saying is the most significant advancement in lightning protection since the lightning rod, a Benjamin Franklin invention, from the 18th century.
A group of laid-off Twitter employees are trying to sue Twitter, but a judge ordered them to drop their class action lawsuit, which accused Twitter of not following through on its severance pay package promise. This was reported earlier by Bloomberg and Reuters.
As of January 16, 2023 the Bitcoin price was nearing 21000 USD. After hitting lows of around 15000 USD a few months earlier, the crypto market looks to be recovering a bit.
A new variant of the virus that causes COVID has mutations that make it more transmissible, but vaccines are still likely to protect against severe disease.
LG has created an unusual TV - it's a TV on a stand which is most likely done so you don't have to mount the TV anywhere. You can simply put it somewhere and watch it like a normal TV.
Intel recently pushed computing limits with the 6GHz barrier at stock speeds being broken for the first time. Intel's new Core i9-13900KS uses the 13th Gen Core i9-13900K that came close to the 6GHz barrier with its 5.8GHz turbo frequency last year. This new processor will be available in stores now and start at $699.
Microsoft plans to invest $10 billion in OpenAI, the startup behind popular artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT, according to a report from Semafor.
According to TechCrunch, Amazon is testing a lower price tier of Prime for customers in India...
Spotify is a music streaming service and in the U.S. on Friday night - Friday the 13th, there wasn't any music available for people to play. There was a flood of user reports that the streaming service for Spotify was down and anyone who was logged out of Spotify was not able to log in again.
