Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 143, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, new tech season is here, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been devouring every iPhone Duo video I can find, clicking on … Read more
“And after I drew one or two diagrams, I started noticing, ‘Hey, I think I’ve thought about something like this before,’” said de Aguiar Alves. Three images, not two The idea behind the Picard maneuver comes from the way a faster-than-light spaceship would outrun its own light. If the spaceship were going at a constant, … Read more
Late Google rival vows to resolve objections Last week, an AI training data lab, Micro1, put in a last-minute competing bid that it claims resolves all objections to the data sale. Outbidding Google by 25 percent, Micro1 offered $12.5 million in cash, while promising that if debtors pick Micro1 over Google, the bankruptcy proceedings can … Read more
As longer, more complex passwords have become a necessity, remembering all those strings of numbers, letters, and special characters has become nearly impossible. Password managers can solve that problem, but what happens when you want to move to a different login organizer? Sure, you could manually type all your logins into a new app, but … Read more
That’s enough to start work on a European radar for Envision, even as ESA still awaits a formal notification from NASA on the status of its contribution to the mission. “NASA conversations with ESA regarding Envision are ongoing,” a NASA spokesperson said. But time is of the essence if Envision is to launch in the … Read more
Howell, Ganan’s lawyer, also serves as counsel for Fairlinked in the US. In a June court filing, Howell wrote that “my investigative work with Fairlinked e.V. and Browsergate occurred before my office filed the Ganan complaint.” LinkedIn said in a motion to dismiss that it uses detection systems to identify the type of automated scraping … Read more
Commercial cargo redux … The launch deal follows the award of a service contract to The Exploration Company by the European Space Agency worth 760 million euros ($880 million) to support the development of Nyx, a demonstration mission, and two operational cargo missions. “We started the development of Nyx with private funding only, and we … Read more
Pretty much every rocket company in the United States, save one, has embraced two fundamental tenets: reusability and diversification. Most famously, SpaceX branched out from reusable rockets to pursue and dominate a growing spectrum of space services: cargo delivery, human spaceflight, satellite production, broadband, and, perhaps soon, orbital data centers and in-space manufacturing. Blue Origin … Read more
Atom interferometers have existed for 30 years, but none could accomplish what Folman and his colleagues wanted to do. So, they built a new one called the Quantum Galileo Interferometer (QGI). Atoms under a chip The QGI is rather tiny and relies on microwave and magnetic pulses. It uses about 20,000 rubidium atoms maintained as … Read more
Blizzard originally tried to bring the StarCraft universe to the world of 3D shooters way back in 2002 with StarCraft: Ghost. It sat in development hell for years until Blizzard president Mike Morhaime confirmed that it had been canceled in 2014. Now Blizzard is giving it another go with the simply titled StarCraft. Dan Hay, … Read more