Elon Musk Showcases New Space X Program’s Spacship:
Elon Musk spoke Saturday about the space program’s newest prototype spaceship. Calling the 50 meter 200 ton prototype “The most inspiring thing that I’ve ever seen.” The plan is to get the spaceship into orbit within six months. Since the company was founded in 2002 it has been trying to achieve cheaper, reusable space travel. They are trying to design a space craft that can land safely and intact which would allow for multiple trips to space which is “The critical breakthrough that’s needed for us to become a space-faring civilization is to make space travel like air travel. With air travel, when you fly a plane, you fly it many times,” Musk says.
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No More Competing For Likes:
Facebook is testing a new process which will hide the number of likes your posts get. The current test will hide the number of likes, reactions, and video views from posts in Australia from the public allowing only the person who posted to be able to see the number. With this new effort the social media giant is hoping to make using social media less stressful. “We are running a limited test where like, reaction, and video view counts are made private across Facebook. We will gather feedback to understand whether this change will improve people’s experiences,” says a spokesperson from Facebook
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Amazon May Be Able to Track Your Phone:
Two of Amazon’s latest products showcased at the hardware event last week were “Sidewalk” a wireless protocol which allows smart devices to be linked together and “Eero” a wifi router which customers can buy and place in their homes. Sidewalk will allow Amazon to link together all smart devices creating a “mesh network” and allow all the devices to communicate with each other. To me I’m thinking about the The Dark Night where Batman uses the phone surveillance in order to catch the Joker. According to Amazon placing only 700 devices across Las Angeles was enough to cover the entire area. This is obviously big news when it comes to the privacy of people everywhere and activists are going to be watching this closely.
New Cameras And Drones To Help Early Fire Detection:
New Mexico’s Gila National Forest is trying a short term experiment using drones and 360 degree cameras to help early detection for forest fires. When a fire is detected the drone will help predict the fire’s route as well as the temperature of the fire. Currently there are manned lookouts to detect fires and to plot the route on a map. The lookouts have dwindled in recent years and New Mexico is hoping with the assistance of the drones and cameras they will be able to fight these fires more efficiently.
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Big Tech Companies Under Fire for Antitrust Laws:
The House Judiciary antitrust committee has request documents from Google, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook while trying to see if these big tech companies have broken any antitrust. This bipartisan committee is looking into current problems in digital marketing competition, whether these companies are participating in anti-competitive conduct, and finally if the current antitrust laws are and competition policies are acceptable in today’s market and if the enforcement for these policies in adequate.
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Google Pixel 4 leaks:
Apple announced it’s new lineup of phones and tablets last week but that is already old news in the tech world. Shortly after the announcement, the tech giant Google has released information on the Google Pixel 4. This includes motion sensors and face ID unlock capabilities and more. Google is expecting this phone to be a serious competitor to Apple and Samsung’s market leading flagship phones. This phone is likely be out later this year.
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