Day: June 21, 2020

Washington Post: A Top NASA Official Improperly Contacted Boeing

The Washington Post reports: After a top NASA official improperly contacted a senior Boeing executive about a bid to win a contract potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars, the company attempted to amend its proposal past the deadline for doing so, according to people with knowledge of the matter. That raised alarm bells inside…


Masked Arsonist Identified and Jailed Because of Etsy Review

An anonymous reader quotes Ars Technica: To some extent, every Internet user leaves a digital trail. So when a masked arsonist was seen on video setting fire to a police car on the day of a recent protest in Philadelphia, the fact that her face was hidden didn’t prevent a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent…


VGA Framegrabber Built From Scratch

Modern computers are replete with all manner of digital video interfaces. DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort are all examples of this. In the old days, VGA ruled the roost, sending video to monitors as an analog signal. However, it’s possible to convert this back into a digital format, and [vihapuu] has done just that with his Grabor…


Facebook Research Releases Tech To Create 3D Models of People From Photographs

Facebook Research has released technology to create 3D models of people from photographs, reports shirappu: The technology, called PIFuHD, takes photographs of people and reconstructs them in 3D. The tech works on deep neural networks with multi-level architecture that allows for high resolution and accuracy in 3D models even at low levels of memory. More…


The Cutting Edge of 3D Printing: Chemicals Within Chemicals, and Printing Tissue In Bodies

Engineers at the University of California, Davis, have developed a new approach to 3D printing with potential applications in tissue engineering, soft robotics, and wearable technology — by repurposing the glass capillary microfluidic devices used in their lab to encapsulate one chemical inside droplets of another: The resulting structure looks like a Pac-Man maze, with…


Nvidia Engineer Releases Open-Sourced Vulkan Graphics Driver for the Raspberry Pi

Long-time Slashdot reader frootcakeuk quotes an article from Hot Hardware: Earlier this year, the Raspberry Pi Foundation hooked up with Igalia to start development on an open-sourced Vulkan graphics driver for the Raspberry Pi. However, Martin Thomas, an engineer at Nvidia, beat them to the punch. Thomas announced yesterday via his personal Twitter that his…


Mark Hamill had a secret cameo in Disney’s The Mandalorian – CNET

Hamill voiced the droid bartender EV-9D9 in season one. …read more Source:: CNet


David Heinemeier Hansson Explains What It Takes to Write Great Code

The “bespoke development” site Evrone.com (an IT outsourcing company) interviewed Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson (who is also co-founder and CTO of Basecamp — and a racecar driver) shortly before he spoke at RubyRussia, Evrone’s annual Moscow programming conference. And they asked him an interesting question. As a man who’s seen lots of…


iOS 14 rumors: 11 new features coming to your iPhone – CNET

A redesigned home screen, multitasking capabilities, new apps and the expected launch date for Apple’s next big iOS update. …read more Source:: CNet


Apple WWDC 2020: iOS 14, new Macs, Watch OS 7, how to watch, start time, livestream and everything we know – CNET

WWDC start time is Monday at 10 a.m. PT. Tune in to CNET for live coverage of everything new in iOS 14, the new Macs, MacOS, WatchOS 7 and everything else Apple announces. …read more Source:: CNet