Day: July 21, 2019

50 years after Apollo 11, I walked on the moon at Comic-Con – CNET

An impressive virtual reality experience starts aboard a space station, where you’re led by a flying robot. …read more Source:: CNet


An Epic Tale of Thermistors: Tricks for Much Better Temperature Sensing

For years [Edward] has been building professional grade underwater sensing nodes at prices approachable for an interested individual without a government grant. An important component of these is temperature, and he has been on a quest to get the highest accuracy temperature readings from whatever parts hit that sweet optimum between cost and complexity. First…


Thor 4 to star Natalie Portman as Lady Thor, is titled Thor: Love and Thunder – CNET

At Comic-Con, we discovered Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson and director Taika Waititi are back for the sequel as well. …read more Source:: CNet


Avengers: Endgame writers, Russo brothers spill superhero secrets at Comic-Con – CNET

Heads up: Thanos was going to de-CAPitate Captain America. …read more Source:: CNet


GitLab Survey Finds Positive Results For Both DevOps and Working Remotely

GitLab’s CEO and co-founder says there was one big takeaway from their recent “2019 Global Developer Report: DevSecOps”: that early adopters of a strong Devops model experience greater security. “Security teams in a longstanding DevOps environment reported they are three times more likely to discover bugs before code is merged,” according to the GitLab blog,…


Avengers: Endgame passes Avatar as highest-grossing movie of all time – CNET

Marvel boss Kevin Feige makes the big announcement at San Diego Comic-Con 2019. …read more Source:: CNet


Galaxy Note 10 rumors, iPad Pro 12.9, LG Pay, Unihertz Titan (MobileTechRoundup show #474)

Matt’s been out for a couple of weeks dealing with family situations, so we had plenty of topics to cover on this week’s show. Topics include a new iPad purchase, upcoming phones, new services for existing devices, and more. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Microsoft Demos Hologram ‘Holoportation’

Microsoft “continues to plug away at making holoportation possible,” reports ZDNet: In a new demonstration, officials showed off a scenario where a life-sized holographic representation of a person could be beamed into a scenario with real-time simultaneous language translation happening — a communication scenario on which Microsoft has been working for years. At Microsoft’s Inspire…


I walked on the moon at Comic-Con, 50 years after Apollo 11 – CNET

An impressive virtual reality experience starts aboard a space station, where you’re led by a flying robot. …read more Source:: CNet


The Simpsons to parody Stranger Things for Halloween special – CNET

The Simpsons upcoming “Treehouse of Horror” episode pays tribute to Stranger Things with Lisa as Eleven. …read more Source:: CNet