Day: March 10, 2020

Apple is reportedly working on a fitness app – CNET

It could guide users through workouts and activities, a report says. …read more Source:: CNet


Uber’s self-driving cars to cruise San Francisco streets once again – CNET

They’re in full autonomous mode, but come with safety operators and will only drive during daylight hours. The caution comes after a fatal self-driving crash in Arizona in 2018. …read more Source:: CNet


Ford’s calling on gamers to help design new race car – Roadshow

Ford’s esports team, Fordzilla, will help with development of the virtual race car. …read more Source:: CNet


Machine Learning Takes On Antibiotic Resistance

To combat resistant bacteria and refill the trickling antibiotic pipeline, scientists are getting help from deep learning networks. From a report: Once-powerful antibiotics are losing their efficacy at a disconcerting pace as bacteria evolve immunity to our drugs. At least 700,000 people around the world now die each year from infections that could formerly be…


Coronavirus updates: New York announces containment, Trump hasn’t been tested – CNET

The COVID-19 outbreak sees Italy lock down 60 million residents. In the US, an area of New York has been designated a containment zone. …read more Source:: CNet


You can’t hold black horse down: Brit bank Lloyds goes full multi-cloud, signs up with Google as well as Microsoft

Spirited equine gambols from vendor to vendor UK finance giant Lloyds Banking Group is to slice off a portion of its £3bn digital transformation investment and feed it to Google as part of a five-year agreement.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Judge: Amazon ‘Likely To Succeed’ on Key Issue in Pentagon Lawsuit

A federal judge said in court documents that Amazon’s protest lawsuit over rival Microsoft being awarded a highly lucrative defense project was “likely to succeed on the merits” of one of its main arguments. From a report: In October, Microsoft was awarded the Pentagon’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud computing contract after the Trump…


New bug species with ‘wacky fashion sense’ named after Lady Gaga – CNET

Caught in a bug romance. …read more Source:: CNet


Forming Sheet Metal Parts with 3D Printed Dies

Using 3D printed forms to bend sheet metal isn’t exactly new. We’ve seen several people create custom dies for their brakes, and the results have shown the concept has merit for small-sale production. But that’s usually where the process ends. A bend here or there is one thing, but the ability to form a complex…


US Pledges More Testing as Trump Hints at Aid For Workers

Warning that the number of coronavirus cases in the United States was expected to grow, the Trump administration on Monday evening said that testing for the virus would ramp up quickly in the coming weeks while declining to estimate how many Americans had already been tested for the virus. From a report: The evening news…