Leaves on the line are a notorious headache for commuters and train companies alike, causing costly delays. Now scientists say they haven’t chosen why the fallen foliage makes the rails so slippery. When the sheets are flattened against the tracks, they form a black layer that dramatically reduces friction between …
Read More »PS5 or X series? Gabe Newell chooses next-gen Xbox over PlayStation
Valve, co-founder Gabe Newell. The New Zealand project The final months of 2020 will offer gamers a tough question: Xbox Series X or PlayStation 5? Both Microsoft and Sony are launching their next-gen consoles ahead of the holiday shopping season. Gabe Newell, co-founder of the developer of Half-Life Valve, has …
Read More »Their businesses were virtual. So Apple wanted a cut.
ClassPass built its business by helping people book exercise classes at local gyms. So when the pandemic forced gyms in the United States to close, the company switched to virtual classes. Then ClassPass received a troubling message from Apple. Because the classes he sold on his iPhone app were now …
Read More »Does AT&T still need DirecTV?
AT&T (NYSE: T) I just reported another quarter of the staggering pay TV subscriber losses. Nearly 900,000 fewer people subscribed to one of AT & T’s premium TV services in late June compared to the previous quarter. Most of those subscriber losses can be attributed to DirecTV, which AT&T has …
Read More »Kodak to add 360 jobs as Trump pushes the US pharmaceutical ramp
President Trump says his administration’s deal with Kodak is one of the most important in the history of American pharmaceuticals. President Trump on Tuesday promoted a $ 765 million loan that will transform former imaging giant Kodak into a pharmaceutical manufacturer. “It is a breakthrough to bring pharmaceutical manufacturing to …
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