Plus, GSA shamed for glacial notification pace Roundup This week’s headlines included buggy cranes, WebEx cockups, and DNS drama.… …read more Source:: Register

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Morocco has decided to scrap winter time and will instead keep its clocks at summer time, GMT+1, all year around. Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the time measured on the Earth’s zero degree line of longitude, or meridian. The announcement comes less than two days before…

We look at a tribe in the Amazon rainforest that may just save the whole world; an iPhone that we actually think is a (relative) bargain; and why parts of rural America can’t get basic internet access. …read more Source:: CNet

The Trump administration sees space as a war-fighting domain, and it wants the US to be ready. …read more Source:: CNet

Commentary: Think Alexa is the voice assistant to beat? Think again. …read more Source:: CNet

With the proliferation of 3D printing in the new millennium, stepper motors are no longer those idle junkbox inhabitants you pulled out of a dot matrix in 1994 and forgot about ever since. NEMA standard parts are readily available and knocking about just about everywhere. Now, you can readily turn a stepper motor into a…

We dropped a brand-new iPhone XR on the sidewalk to find out just how tough this phone is compared to the more expensive iPhone XS. …read more Source:: CNet

Sleeker design, Face ID and bigger screens are great. But when will I get to leave my Mac at home? …read more Source:: CNet

Scientists watch from 1,000 miles away as Charlie the Rover plays with ExoMars’ toys A prototype Mars rover, named Charlie, has gone for a trundle around Spain’s Tabernas Desert this week, as scientists gear up for the real thing in 2021.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Last month, the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter spotted a white cloud suspended over the western slope of Arsia Mons, an enormous volcano near the red planet’s equator. The 930-mile-long cloud looks like the kind of volcanic plumes huffed out by Earth’s active volcanoes — but it’s not; “Arsia Mons is long extinct —…