Opportunity Mars Rover Goes To Its Last Rest After Extraordinary 14-Year Mission

Asteroid is building a human-machine interaction engine for AR developers: Lucas Matney

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When we interact with computers today we move the mouse, we scroll the trackpad, we tap the screen, but there is so much that the machines don’t pick up on, what about where we’re looking, the subtle gestures we make and what we’re thinking? Asteroid is looki…

Check out the first interior view of Honda's Urban EV prototype: Kirsten Korosec

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Honda has been teasing its all-electric urban vehicle in 2017, when the automaker showed off its vision of the future — that had a distinct 1970s first generation Civic flare. Now, two years later a production version of the Urban EV is nearly here. And the a…

HyperSciences wants to 'gamechange' spaceflight with hypersonic drilling tech: Taylor Hatmaker

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It’s no coincidence that Elon Musk wants to both tunnel down into and soar above the Earth. If you ask the team at HyperSciences, the best way to get to space is to flip drilling technology upside down and point it at the sky. In the process, that would mean …

Opportunity Mars Rover goes to its last rest after extraordinary 14-year mission: Devin Coldewey

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Opportunity, one of two rovers sent to Mars in 2004, is officially offline for good, NASA and JPL officials announced today at a special press conference. "I declare the Opportunity mission as complete, and with it the Mars Exploration ROver mission as comple…

Reddit says government data requests more than doubled in 2018: Zack Whittaker

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Reddit has said the number of government requests for user data has more than doubled in 2018 than on the previous year. The news and content sharing site said in its latest transparency report, posted Wednesday, it received a 752 requests from governments du…

Google says it'll invest $13B in U.S. data centers and offices this year: Frederic Lardinois

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Google today announced that it will invest $13 billion in data centers and offices across the U.S. in 2019. That’s up from $9 billion in investments last year. Many of these investments will go to states like Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio, Texas, Oklahoma, South Car…

SEC charges former Apple compliance lawyer with insider trading, avoiding $382K in losses, and making $245K in profits: Ingrid Lunden

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The shine on Apple is getting a little tarnished. Today, the SEC filed a suit against Gene Levoff, a lawyer who used to work for the iPhone giant, accusing him of insider trading, selling millions of dollars in stock ahead of earnings and saving himself some …

Daily Crunch: Apple's subscription fix: Anthony Ha

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The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Apple’s iOS update makes it easier to get to your subscriptions M…

Xnor's saltine-sized, solar-powered AI hardware redefines the edge: Devin Coldewey

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"If AI is so easy, why isn't there any in this room?" asks Ali Farhadi, founder and CEO of Xnor, gesturing around the conference room overlooking Lake Union in Seattle. And it's true — despite a handful of displays, phones, and other gadgets, the only things …

Audio tech supplier to Rolls Royce and Xiaomi secures another $13.2M in funding: Mike Butcher

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As autonomous driving eventually transforms cars from transportation devices to mobile theaters or conference rooms we will need better audio inside them. And we’ve already seen that VCs like Andreessen Horowitz say ‘audio is the future.’ So it’s interesting …

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