NEW YORK (AP) — The average time of a nine-inning Major League Baseball game increased by 3 minutes, 43 seconds this season to 2 hours, 42 minutes following the introduction of robot umpires. MLB said Monday that 61 seconds of this year’s increase was attributed to the Automated Ball-Strike ChallengeContinue Reading
The unofficial GNOME theme for Firefox has been updated to work with the Firefox 157 release and its newer, rounder Nova theme. It is not a traditional Firefox theme (like the ones you can install from the Mozilla Add-ons site) but, to quote its GitHub page, a “bunch of CSSContinue Reading
Wolfspeed has made its Premium 200 mm n-type silicon carbide (SiC) substrate commercially available. The company says the higher-grade starting material is designed to improve device yield through reduced defects and greater wafer-shape stability. It joins the 200 mm SiC materials portfolio that Wolfspeed brought to commercial availability in SeptemberContinue Reading
Charge_iN, a public EV charging network operated by Indian automaker Mahindra, has expanded its reach to 50 locations in India. The newest station is located at an HP Auto Care Centre on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, one of the country’s busiest inter-city corridors. This is the first Charge_iN station to becomeContinue Reading
Electric vehicle owners will now have to pay $500 every two years in addition to their vehicle registration fee. Plug-in hybrid vehicles will have an additional $250 fee…Continue Reading
On most ultra-long-haul flights, resting for cabin crew does not typically mean just grabbing an empty row and hoping nobody needs water or another snack. Widebody aircraft like the Airbus A350-1000 are designed to carry extra staff, so that the team can rotate through planned breaks, staying sharp for serviceContinue Reading
Any time an engine manufacturer spends over £1 billion to double or triple how long its powerplants can stay bolted to a wing, the commercial aviation world takes notice. For airlines operating the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Rolls-Royce promised that its latest Trent 1000 durability upgrades would allow aircraft to flyContinue Reading
The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the evolution of the platform economy—from the optimism of the early internetContinue Reading
Bill Ingalls/nasa/Getty Images SpaceX first reused a Falcon 9 booster in 2017, putting the spaceflight company on a path to cut the cost of space access to governments and organizations keen to deploy satellites in orbit. The process involves the 135-foot-tall first-stage booster performing an autonomous touchdown minutes after deploying its payload to orbit. TheContinue Reading
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Most people know MX Player as the app that finally played that one weird video file their phone refused to open. It has grown well past that. These days it also carries a library of free movies, web series and shows, which makes it interesting to anyone who follows entertainmentContinue Reading
Years after the risks of social media for kids first became apparent, U.S. states this summer reached an accord hailed as a turning point for child safety. Meanwhile, a new generation of children has begun engaging with an even more potent technology: artificial intelligence. While the efforts to make socialContinue Reading
Hylki is a Rust-based email client designed for the GNOME desktop with an incredibly amount of customisation packed in. Like Postcard , Convey and Letters, Hylki is part of the new(ish) Linux mail clients aiming to serve as a modern Geary-like alternative to more powerful email clients Thunderbird and Evolution.Continue Reading