Sci-tech
Valve and Mozilla Announce SteamVR and WebVR for macOS
The new 27-inch iMac with a 5K Retina display is also VR-ready. High Sierra will maintain complete read and write compatibility with previously formatted HFS drives and data. Federighi insisted that Metal 2 offers up to ten times better draw call improvement than the original Metal API and runs "100 times" better than OpenGL. [Full Article...]
India set to launch heaviest satellite on Monday
The success of this rocket and its consequent tests will make India part of an exclusive space club that consists of India, China and Russian Federation (including the USSR period) - the only nations to have used their own rockets and facilities to send astronauts into space. [Full Article...]
Fired employee kills 5, then himself at Orlando business
The Orange County sheriff's office says it hopes to identify the gunman in a workplace shooting near Orlando at its next briefing this afternoon. He paused at least once to reload. Fiamma is an Italy-based manufacturer of accessories for motor vehicles. The survivor reportedly called her sister and told her, " My boss is dead ". [Full Article...]
NASA announces new mission to the sun
It becomes unbearable for any spacecraft to face intense heat and radiations coming out of the Earth's Sun, but the advanced design and mechanism of "The Parker probe" will help it swoop repeatedly at 118 miles per second through the sun's corona . [Full Article...]
Apple Announces New Siri-Based Speaker System HomePod
The HomePod will hit the market in December in the U.S., U.K., and Australia for $349. "It will reinvent home audio", Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook said during the conference. Apple says that "only after "Hey Siri " is recognised locally on the device will any information be sent to Apple servers, encrypted and sent using an anonymous Siri identifier". [Full Article...]
Apple may finally be adding a file manager app in iOS 11
For instance, Apple initially resisted enlarging the size of iPhone's screen despite strong sales for larger-display phones made by Samsung and other rivals. During its marathon two and a half hour keynote speech, Apple repeatedly touted its AI and machine learning capabilities across all three new operating system updates. [Full Article...]
Rain denies Australia a win against Bangladesh
Australia were cruising in the Group A Champions Trophy clash at 1-83, after bowling the Tigers out for 182, when light rain started to fall in the 16th over. Nonetheless, an exciting contest is in the offing with New Zealand showing a lot of promise against Australia . Australia's bowlers found the rhythm that had been missing against New Zealand , and Tamim - who made a century aga... [Full Article...]
Apple debuts HomePod speaker to bring Siri into the living room
These new Macs start shipping Monday. Craig Federighi , Apple's Senior Vice President of Software Engineering , introduced the new software, which drives the iPhone and iPad. Apple's mobile operating system, iOS 11, highlights Siri's machine-learning capabilities to synchronize across devices. The latest version of Apple's Safari browser will be able to stop automatically playing video... [Full Article...]