The New York Times reports: Ever since the race to develop a coronavirus vaccine began last spring, upbeat announcements were stalked by ominous polls: No matter how encouraging the news, growing numbers of people said they would refuse to get the shot… But over the past few weeks, as the vaccine went from a hypothetical…
Outsourcing in the 2020s: cloud and Covid shake up contracting
Outsourcing in 2021 and beyond: more granular, more flexible, of shorter duration. In other words, made for the digital era. Cloud and automation ‘now effectively table stakes for all transformations,’ …read more Source:: ZDNet
Fox Hunting with Software-Defined Radio
Fox hunting, or direction finding, is a favorite pastime in the ham radio community where radio operators attempt to triangulate the position of a radio transmission. While it may have required a large amount of expensive equipment in the past, like most ham radio operations the advent of software-defined radio (SDR) has helped revolutionize this…
Ask Slashdot: How Long Should a Vendor Support a Distro?
Long-term Slashdot reader couchslug believes that “Howls of anguish from betrayed CentOS 8 users highlight the value of its long support cycles…” Earlier this month it was announced that at the end of 2021, the community-supported rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS 8, “will no longer be maintained,” though CentOS 7 “will stick around…
America Creates a 770-Mile Corridor for Testing Supersonic Aircraft Up to Mach 3
America’s Federal Aviation Agency signed an agreement with the state of Kansas’s department of transportation to establish a 770-nautical mile Kansas Supersonic Transportation Corridor for testing aircraft up to Mach 3, reports Aviation International News: The agreement would provide a critical testing site for the emerging group of supersonic aircraft as civil supersonic flight remains…
Apple iCloud issues linger into a second day – CNET
On the day after Christmas, Apple notes that some users may be having a problem with the storage service. …read more Source:: CNet
Can mRNA Biotechnology be Adapted to Improve Flu Vaccines and Fight Cancer?
Reuters notes the “miraculous speed” of mRNA vaccines, while also calling it “a glimpse of what’s possible if it can be applied post-pandemic to treat cancer or rare diseases.” The vaccine market alone is worth about $35 billion each year, and investors apparently believe mRNA companies will capture around two-third of that, leading market researcher…
Indoor Antennas Worthy of 007
Many ham radio operators now live where installing an outdoor antenna is all but impossible. It seems that homeowner’s associations are on the lookout for the non-conformity of the dreaded ham radio antenna. [Peter] can sympathize, and has a solution based on lessons of spycraft from the cold war. [Peter] points out that spies like…
Gingerbread monolith sweetens Christmas Day in San Francisco – CNET
The towering baked good appeared mysteriously on a hilltop overlooking the city. …read more Source:: CNet
What the cluck? KFC and Cooler Master cook up KFConsole collaboration
Does the world need a bucket-shaped gaming PC chassis with a chamber that keeps your fried chicken warm? We may soon find out, if this collab is more than just an Internet sensation. …read more Source:: ZDNet
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