Apple is increasingly focusing on building its own devices and expanding its ecosystem by taking steps towards a more native experience for users and relying less on third-party accessories. While the Cupertino-based tech giant's HomePod and AppleTV have left quite the mark in the smart home category, it generally relies more on outsourcing cameras and other hardware for smart homes. Now, a new report suggests that the company intends to create a fully integrated experience by developing its own smart home accessories. Gurman hints about Apple working on making smart home products like security cameras for a more integrated experience […]
We’re continuing our Best of Black Friday posts today with a look at the best current deals on power stations and their respective bundle options. Folks across the country and beyond have been steadily investing more and more in the industry for a vari...
Blizzard has announced that two decades after its release, World of Warcraft is finally going to let players build a home and live in it. The feature has long been requested by WoW players and now it’s finally coming in the game’s next expansion.Read m...
Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds will receive the Godspawn update, adding a new 50-player boss battle, a new 10-player raid, and a legendary spear. Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds is getting the first major update "Godspawn" on November 19th, expanding the story with new story chapters The MMORPG Guild Wars 2 by ArenaNet is receiving its first major update for the Janthir Wilds expansion soon. It's the first of three major updates, and it'll land on November 19. The update will add new content to the game for the players. The Janthir Wilds expansion DLC was released in August this year, […]
Boeing's inaugural crewed launch for NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) suffered from yet another delay yesterday after NASA announced that the mission will now take place on May 17th at the earliest. Starliner, a ship that will carry two astronauts to the ISS, was expected to lift off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida earlier this month. However, last-minute issues delayed the launch, with NASA and ULA - the rocket launch provider whose Atlas V rocket will send the ship to space - initially resetting the clock to May 10th. Another Week Added To NASA Astronauts' Test […]
Keeping pace with earlier sanctions to stop American-origin semiconductor technologies from making their way to the Chinese military, the U.S. Department of Commerce has further restricted some chips that Intel and Qualcomm can supply to the Chinese technology firm Huawei. The new sanctions are in response to national security interests, according to a Department of Commerce spokesperson who spoke with the Financial Times, which also reported on the license revocations. U.S. sanctions against Huawei have focused on leading-edge semiconductor technologies as well as products such as artificial intelligence processors, which might be used by the Chinese military. The sanctions have […]
Elon Musk was able to work his magic during Tesla's Q1 2024 earnings call, giving the bulls enough ammunition to pull up the beaten-down stock from its 1-year nadir. However, the recent recovery in Tesla shares is likely to be ephemeral if the EV giant is not able to revive the margin-critical demand for its vehicles in China. $TSLANEWS: Tesla China sells 62,167 vehicles in Apr. - 2023 (Jan~Apr) : 305,164 - 2024 (Jan~Apr) : 283,043 pic.twitter.com/4MsIQ7qdAo — Tsla Chan (@Tslachan) May 7, 2024 Today, China's CPCA disclosed that Tesla's insured units for April - a close approximation for the […]
The maiden crewed launch of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) was delayed yet again after its ship having painstakingly spent years in development. The reason, according to initial comments made over the launch provider ULA's live stream channels, was a faulty valve. This valve became yet another one that displayed off nominal behavior on a spaceflight mission. According to NASA, an oxygen valve on the Centaur second stage of the Atlas V rocket made teams decide to scrub today's launch two hours before liftoff at 8:34 p.m. Eastern time. Depending on what teams find after they […]
Fresh data from the Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) shows that semiconductor fabrication remained the heaviest research and development spender in the country in 2023. Taiwanese chip manufacturing behemoth TSMC, the world's largest leading contract chip manufacturer, was unsurprisingly also one of Taiwan's largest R&D spenders after forking NT$178 billion specifically on developing advanced products and maintaining its lead in the global race to make the smallest and fastest chips. Along with U.S. chip giant Intel and Korean conglomerate Samsung's chip manufacturing division, TSMC can produce and market chips under the N3 or 3-nanometer branding. This places its products […]
Keeping up the pace with rapid awards under the CHIPS Act, the Biden-Haris administration announced a new award today which is aimed at increasing the resilience of U.S. semiconductor supply chains. The CHIPS Act is a $50 billion dollar funding package that covers all aspects of semiconductor development, from research to manufacturing. So far in 2024, the Commerce Department, which is authorized to make these awards, has opened doors to billions of dollars in funding to Intel, TSMC and other chip-making companies. The funding is part of an effort to ensure that advanced chip manufacturing technologies, such as those used […]
With rapid Falcon 9 launches and Starship development in Texas taking place in the background, SpaceX shared fresh details for its upcoming record-setting private astronaut mission under the Polaris program yesterday. The Polaris Dawn mission, which is a four-crew complement led by billionaire Jared Issacman, is currently due to fly to space in the summer, and Isaacman, along with SpaceX representatives, shared details of the flight and mission profile during a chat on social media yesterday. At the event, SpaceX's Ana Menon outlined that her firm aims to test human performance for Mars missions as part of a journey that […]
After spending years in its development, Boeing and NASA are ready to fly their Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS). Starliner is slated to take off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida tomorrow night. The mission will officially mark the start of Boeing's crewed astronaut missions. The flight will take NASA Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunny Williams to the ISS after the United Launch Alliance's (ULA) Atlas V rocket lifts off. Tomorrow's launch is a test flight for Starliner, which is the sixth crewed space exploration spacecraft flown by or for NASA in its history. […]
In what is sure to be an extremely embarrassing occurrence for Trump Media and Technology Group (NASDAQ: DJT), the SEC has now charged the company's audit firm with "deliberate and systemic failures to comply with Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) standards in its audits and reviews incorporated in more than 1,500 SEC filings from January 2021 through June 2023." Trump Media and Technology Group engaged BF Borgers for the first time in January 2022 for a fee of $150,000 to perform its first annual audit. The firm is currently slated to perform an audit of Trump Media's consolidated financial […]
More than a year after NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket took to the skies with the Orion spacecraft on board to start the Artemis 1 mission and the Artemis program, a report from the NASA inspector general's office shares new images of ship's heat shield. Soon after Orion landed on Earth, NASA revealed during a press conference that teams had discovered unexpected damage to the ship's heat shield. This was followed up by a few updates, the latest of which came last week when, during a meeting, a NASA official shared that his agency was still working to determine […]
Whether rightly or wrongly, Trump Media and Technology Group (NASDAQ: DJT) is convinced that its stock is being manipulated by illegal means, and the company appears to be leaving no stone unturned in its tenacious quest to hold a select clique of market makers accountable, going so far as to try to drag the US House of Representative's Committee on the Judiciary, Committee on Financial Services, Committee on Ways and Means, and Committee on Oversight and Reform into this brewing controversy. A Chronology of Trump Media and Technology Group's Moves As we noted earlier in a dedicated post, Trump Media […]
Bitcoin hit its lowest price level since the 27th of February earlier today, constituting the current bull cycle's deepest retrace so far, as lagging institutional adoption dampens the uber-bullish sentiment around the world's pre-eminent cryptocurrency. Yet, Bitcoin's 2016 bull cycle analog gives investors some much-needed historical context, one that can play a pivotal role in establishing a sustainable base at the current price levels. Spot Bitcoin ETFs and Lagging Institutional Adoption The requisite Form 13F filings for Q1 2024 are due by the 15th of May. While hedge funds typically wait till the last day or so to file their […]
Boeing's inaugural crewed launch for NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) suffered from yet another delay yesterday after NASA announced that the mission will now take place on May 17th at the earliest. Starliner, a ship that will carry two astronauts to the ISS, was expected to lift off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida earlier this month. However, last-minute issues delayed the launch, with NASA and ULA - the rocket launch provider whose Atlas V rocket will send the ship to space - initially resetting the clock to May 10th. Another Week Added To NASA Astronauts' Test […]
Keeping pace with earlier sanctions to stop American-origin semiconductor technologies from making their way to the Chinese military, the U.S. Department of Commerce has further restricted some chips that Intel and Qualcomm can supply to the Chinese technology firm Huawei. The new sanctions are in response to national security interests, according to a Department of Commerce spokesperson who spoke with the Financial Times, which also reported on the license revocations. U.S. sanctions against Huawei have focused on leading-edge semiconductor technologies as well as products such as artificial intelligence processors, which might be used by the Chinese military. The sanctions have […]
Elon Musk was able to work his magic during Tesla's Q1 2024 earnings call, giving the bulls enough ammunition to pull up the beaten-down stock from its 1-year nadir. However, the recent recovery in Tesla shares is likely to be ephemeral if the EV giant is not able to revive the margin-critical demand for its vehicles in China. $TSLANEWS: Tesla China sells 62,167 vehicles in Apr. - 2023 (Jan~Apr) : 305,164 - 2024 (Jan~Apr) : 283,043 pic.twitter.com/4MsIQ7qdAo — Tsla Chan (@Tslachan) May 7, 2024 Today, China's CPCA disclosed that Tesla's insured units for April - a close approximation for the […]
The maiden crewed launch of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) was delayed yet again after its ship having painstakingly spent years in development. The reason, according to initial comments made over the launch provider ULA's live stream channels, was a faulty valve. This valve became yet another one that displayed off nominal behavior on a spaceflight mission. According to NASA, an oxygen valve on the Centaur second stage of the Atlas V rocket made teams decide to scrub today's launch two hours before liftoff at 8:34 p.m. Eastern time. Depending on what teams find after they […]
Fresh data from the Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) shows that semiconductor fabrication remained the heaviest research and development spender in the country in 2023. Taiwanese chip manufacturing behemoth TSMC, the world's largest leading contract chip manufacturer, was unsurprisingly also one of Taiwan's largest R&D spenders after forking NT$178 billion specifically on developing advanced products and maintaining its lead in the global race to make the smallest and fastest chips. Along with U.S. chip giant Intel and Korean conglomerate Samsung's chip manufacturing division, TSMC can produce and market chips under the N3 or 3-nanometer branding. This places its products […]
Keeping up the pace with rapid awards under the CHIPS Act, the Biden-Haris administration announced a new award today which is aimed at increasing the resilience of U.S. semiconductor supply chains. The CHIPS Act is a $50 billion dollar funding package that covers all aspects of semiconductor development, from research to manufacturing. So far in 2024, the Commerce Department, which is authorized to make these awards, has opened doors to billions of dollars in funding to Intel, TSMC and other chip-making companies. The funding is part of an effort to ensure that advanced chip manufacturing technologies, such as those used […]
With rapid Falcon 9 launches and Starship development in Texas taking place in the background, SpaceX shared fresh details for its upcoming record-setting private astronaut mission under the Polaris program yesterday. The Polaris Dawn mission, which is a four-crew complement led by billionaire Jared Issacman, is currently due to fly to space in the summer, and Isaacman, along with SpaceX representatives, shared details of the flight and mission profile during a chat on social media yesterday. At the event, SpaceX's Ana Menon outlined that her firm aims to test human performance for Mars missions as part of a journey that […]
After spending years in its development, Boeing and NASA are ready to fly their Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS). Starliner is slated to take off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida tomorrow night. The mission will officially mark the start of Boeing's crewed astronaut missions. The flight will take NASA Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunny Williams to the ISS after the United Launch Alliance's (ULA) Atlas V rocket lifts off. Tomorrow's launch is a test flight for Starliner, which is the sixth crewed space exploration spacecraft flown by or for NASA in its history. […]
In what is sure to be an extremely embarrassing occurrence for Trump Media and Technology Group (NASDAQ: DJT), the SEC has now charged the company's audit firm with "deliberate and systemic failures to comply with Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) standards in its audits and reviews incorporated in more than 1,500 SEC filings from January 2021 through June 2023." Trump Media and Technology Group engaged BF Borgers for the first time in January 2022 for a fee of $150,000 to perform its first annual audit. The firm is currently slated to perform an audit of Trump Media's consolidated financial […]
More than a year after NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket took to the skies with the Orion spacecraft on board to start the Artemis 1 mission and the Artemis program, a report from the NASA inspector general's office shares new images of ship's heat shield. Soon after Orion landed on Earth, NASA revealed during a press conference that teams had discovered unexpected damage to the ship's heat shield. This was followed up by a few updates, the latest of which came last week when, during a meeting, a NASA official shared that his agency was still working to determine […]
Whether rightly or wrongly, Trump Media and Technology Group (NASDAQ: DJT) is convinced that its stock is being manipulated by illegal means, and the company appears to be leaving no stone unturned in its tenacious quest to hold a select clique of market makers accountable, going so far as to try to drag the US House of Representative's Committee on the Judiciary, Committee on Financial Services, Committee on Ways and Means, and Committee on Oversight and Reform into this brewing controversy. A Chronology of Trump Media and Technology Group's Moves As we noted earlier in a dedicated post, Trump Media […]
Bitcoin hit its lowest price level since the 27th of February earlier today, constituting the current bull cycle's deepest retrace so far, as lagging institutional adoption dampens the uber-bullish sentiment around the world's pre-eminent cryptocurrency. Yet, Bitcoin's 2016 bull cycle analog gives investors some much-needed historical context, one that can play a pivotal role in establishing a sustainable base at the current price levels. Spot Bitcoin ETFs and Lagging Institutional Adoption The requisite Form 13F filings for Q1 2024 are due by the 15th of May. While hedge funds typically wait till the last day or so to file their […]