Day: December 4, 2019

Never break the (supply) chain: Intel pitches ‘full lifecycle’ chip-tracking programme to partners

Listen to the wind blow, watch the sun rise Intel has said it wants to make its punters more confident about what happens to its chips on the journey from fab to rack to recycler.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Hennessey shows off planned 2020 Chevy Corvette upgrades – Roadshow

Tuning won’t be available right away, but there will be plenty of other stuff for C8 owners to indulge in. …read more Source:: CNet


NASA probe ‘touches’ sun, discovers unexpected changes in solar wind – CNET

The first science results from the Parker Solar Probe shine a light on the sun’s strange magnetic fields and energetic particles. …read more Source:: CNet


Hyundai Motor tees up flying cars, electric vehicles with $52 billion investment – Roadshow

Hyundai and Kia’s parent automaker isn’t messing around when it comes to future transportation. …read more Source:: CNet


Neflix’s The Witcher: Henry Cavill reveals new clip and talks about doing his own stunts – CNET

Henry Cavill loses the cape and gets a horse in the new series. …read more Source:: CNet


How Chinese Sci-Fi Conquered America

From a report: When the English translation of “The Three-Body Problem” was published in 2014, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work of speculative fiction. President Barack Obama praised the novel, calling it “just wildly imaginative.” Mark Zuckerberg recommended it to his tens of millions of Facebook followers; George R.R. Martin blogged about it. Publishers…


For foldable phones, cheap and simple could win out – CNET

Commentary: New rumors and lots of experimentation are changing the shape of the conversation away from larger, more powerful foldable phones. …read more Source:: CNet


[Ben Krasnow] Builds a Mass Spectrometer

One of the features that made Scientific American magazine great was a column called “The Amateur Scientist.” Every month, readers were treated to experiments that could be done at home, or some scientific apparatus that could be built on the cheap. Luckily, [Ben Krasnow]’s fans remember the series and urged him to tackle a build…


We’re going to learn more about NBC streaming service Peacock next month – CNET

Comcast will hold an investor meeting in January. …read more Source:: CNet


2020 US Census Plagued By Hacking Threats, Cost Overruns

Reuters reports: In 2016, the U.S. Census Bureau faced a pivotal choice in its plan to digitize the nation’s once-a-decade population count: build a system for collecting and processing data in-house, or buy one from an outside contractor. The bureau chose Pegasystems, reasoning that outsourcing would be cheaper and more effective. Three years later, the…