The funding will be used to explore the use of artificial intelligence and advanced satellite imaging. …read more Source:: ZDNet

An anonymous reader quotes SD Times: Amazon wants to make sure Java is available for free to its users in the long term with the introduction of Amazon Corretto. The solution is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of the Open Java Development Kit (OpenJDK). “Java is one of the most popular languages in use by…

Walmart comes out swinging for Black Friday — with some sale prices already available. …read more Source:: CNet

[Michael Karliner]’s Belshazzar, named for the Biblical character upon whose wall the writing appeared, is a unique light painting machine, that tracks an array of UV LEDs across a glow-in-the-dark background to paint transient dot-matrix letters in light. It was one of many cyberpunk-themed art pieces in Null Sector at the 2018 Electromagnetic Field hacker…

GitHub saw more than 67 million pull requests this year — more than a third of GitHub’s “lifetime” total of 200 million pull requests since its launch in 2008. It now hosts 96 million repositories, and has over 31 million contributors — including 8 million who just joined within the last 12 months. These are…

Fitbit, Apple Watch and Samsung — we take a look at some of the best deals on wearables ahead of Black Friday. …read more Source:: CNet

GameStop deals started on Sunday — but the same hardware bundles are widely available elsewhere, too. …read more Source:: CNet

To increase Oklahoma’s tech workforce, this organization is offering cash and the promise of a cheap lifestyle. …read more Source:: CNet

Want the unedited, full deal posts from the biggest retailers? Here they are — along with when each sale starts. …read more Source:: CNet

“And the winner of the 2021 Academy Award for best picture is .â.â. Apple?” jokes the Washington Post, noting that Apple has just signed a new multi-year movie deal with film production company A24, “and while that seems like a comparatively minor announcement, it could change the game in some significant ways.” It’s sneakily consequential….