There can be life in the clouds of Venus, and Rocket Lab wants to help find it. The California-based space agency, that gives small spaceship dedicated trips to Earth Earth, intends to soon go interplanetary, with a robotic astrobiological mission to the second rock from the sun. “I’m crazy in …
Read More »Former McDonald’s CEO Steve Easterbrook is stepping back on business matters
Steve Easterbrook, president and chief executive officer of McDonald’s Corp., walks the grounds after a morning session at the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, US, on Wednesday, July 12, 2017. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images McDonald’s former CEO Steve Easterbrook shot …
Read More »The big tech decoupling is here
Long-term threats from both the US and China to dismantle the two countries’ interdependent tech economies are finally giving way to reality. Why it matters: A divorce will be messy, with a lot of near-term pain on both sides. And the end result may be a reduced, more fractured world …
Read More »Intel’s run on the GPU market begins with Tiger Lake on board Graphics
Increase / Intel seeks to replace Nvidia as the “one stop GPU store”, with a comprehensive line of GPUs focused on everything from laptops to gaming to the data center. Intel At Intel Architecture Day 2020, most of the focus and buzz ran on the upcoming Tiger Lake 10nm laptop …
Read More »What would happen if we burned all fossil fuels?
Illustration: Elena Scotti. Photos: Getty Images Image nuts swaying with plant life, oceans swaying with life, dinosaurs running across the Earth. Imagine that plants and animals die, and over the course of 300 million years, coal, oil and gas become complex series of processes underground. Fast forward to the present …
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