200 miles east of Silicon Valley, “A disproportionate number of people who purchased homes in Tahoe in 2020 are employees of some of the largest tech companies in the Bay Area,” a real estate brokerage firm specializing in data analytics recently told Outside magazine. Of the 2,280 new-home buyers Atlasa identified throughout the Tahoe region…

These dog food delivery services send quality kibble and save you (and your pup) trips to the store. …read more Source:: CNet

It’s an old misconception that digital musicians just use a mouse and keyboard for their art. This is often far from the truth, as many computer music artists have a wide variety of keyboards/synths, MIDI controllers, and “analog” instruments that all get used in their creative process. But what if one of those instruments was…

Slashdot reader sciencehabit shares news from Science magazine: When a giant space rock struck the waters near Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula 66 million years ago, it sent up a blanket of dust that blotted out the Sun for years, sending temperatures plummeting and killing off the dinosaurs. The impact also generated a tsunami in the Gulf…

Social network’s remarks come after the president says tech companies are ‘killing people’ by allowing misinformation to spread. …read more Source:: CNet

“Well before China decided to kick out all of its bitcoin miners, they were already leaving in droves, and new data from Cambridge University shows they were likely headed to the United States,” reports CNBC: The U.S. has fast become the new darling of the bitcoin mining world. It is the second-biggest mining destination on…

“China conducted a clandestine first test flight of a reusable suborbital vehicle Friday as a part of development of a reusable space transportation system,” reports Space News: The vehicle launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center Friday and later landed at an airport just over 800 kilometers away at Alxa League in Inner Mongolia Autonomous…

If you stop to think, the number of pre-recorded voices and sounds you might hear on an average day might number in the hundreds. Everything from subway announcements, alerts on your phone, to sound effects at Disneyland is a sound that triggers in response to an event. [Techmoan] came across a device that many of…

Apparently, elitism and snobbery aren’t dead when it comes to phones. And some people say they’re really suffering. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Now you can start training at your own pace to learn the fundamentals of coding without even paying a penny. …read more Source:: ZDNet