Sci-tech
As Uber eyes IPO, its losses are slowing but they're still massive
Uber's gross bookings rose 14 percent to $11.1 billion in the fourth quarter compared with the previous quarter. There are few historical precedents for the scale of its loss. The settlement and its improving finances suggest that it is making an effort to achieve its goal for an initial public offering (IPO) in 2019. While sales were at $7.5bn for the year (a 61pc increase), losses were at $4.... [Full Article...]
Redmi Note 5 Pro: The worthy upgrade for Redmi Note 4 users
The color options are also same as Redmi Note 5 . After the great success of Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 , the company has chose to bring these latest and upgraded versions of Redmi Note 5 and Note 5 Pro. As we mentioned, the Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 comes in two storage variants - 32GB and 64GB - both of which are expandable via microSD card in a hybrid dual-SIM format. [Full Article...]
Google releases lighter version of Gmail in the Play Store
Always according to the same site that does not give more information about the look of this new interface, the goal of Android P is to facilitate the switch from an iPhone to an Android smartphone. These partners can tweak the software to their needs, so not all Android phones will have notches. By embracing the iPhone X style notch design, Google is looking to make its presence felt in the fla... [Full Article...]
The Evil Within 2 gets even more ugly with first-person view
Some of you already know and may have been able to play the game in first-person by enabling the console . "We experimented a bit with first-person in the original game, but it was more of an afterthought and a little bit of playing around on our side, since we designed the game in third-person". [Full Article...]
Spanish Satellite Set To Launch From Vandenberg Air Force Base
If approved I have to wonder how ling it will take to deploy 4,425 satellites. SpaceX's satellite broadband plans are getting closer to reality. Thank you to cageymaru for the story. To make it work, the company needs to send over 4000 satellites into low-orbit around the Earth (or about 700 miles from the planet, far lower than many communication satellites). [Full Article...]
Sea of Thieves beta returning this weekend
After all, any content from that series would prove an ideal complement to Sea of Thieves' swashbuckling antics, and the prospect of teaming up with Sparrow and co is pretty tantalising. Rare are expecting to see issues from the test, and at times will "purposefully be stressing our services by throttling performance at certain times", and "simulating deliberate outages". [Full Article...]
Missing 4-year-old SC girl found safe in Alabama
A law enforcement officer was checking on a vehicle when he noticed a man asleep in a vehicle with a little girl inside the auto. "He handed her off and then ran toward the auto, cranked it and started away", Oliver said. The child's father is a member of the U.S. Coast Guard and was out of town on training, Tecklenburg said. SC police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation described the susp... [Full Article...]
Intel's Drone Display at the PyeongChang Olympics, Pre-Recorded in December
The 1,218 synchronised Shooting Star drones created snowboarders, the Olympic rings and abstract shapes and patterns to celebrate the beginning of the games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. A single pilot using one computer controls the entire fleet of drones. Intel had meant to put on a live 300-drone show each evening of the Olympics for the day's medal ceremony. [Full Article...]