Google has decided to deploy the Rich Communication Services (RCS) protocol on its own after waiting for years for carriers in the US to do so instead. While SMS has been a phenomenally successful message protocol, it dates to the mid-1980s. RCS is intended to be a replacement, but its deployment has been minimal. While Google initially helped create the standard, it relied on the US wireless carriers to roll it out — and they haven’t been particularly interested. Last month, the carriers announced that they would finally roll out RCS… only they weren’t going to use the actual version Google has worked on.
Google’s Stadia game streaming service launches in just a few days, and some of the developers have taken to Reddit to host a (Ask Me Anything). The devs fielded questions ranging from how achievements will work to when iOS support will roll out. Unfortunately, the AMA revealed that device support will be very limited at launch, and some of Google’s core features won’t work right away. Google has moved with incredible speed to get Stadia ready for launch. It was just a year ago that Google tested its cloud gaming technology with Project Stream in the Chrome browser. However, it apparently has not had time to get all the necessary apps and streaming technologies ready to go.
The Curiosity rover has already had a tremendously successful mission on Mars, but it’s not done making discoveries yet. NASA reports that the rover has detected a on the red planet. While the cause is unclear, this comes just months after the rover detected a spike in methane, another biomarker gas. landed on Mars in Gale Crater more than seven years ago, and since then it has beamed back more data on the geology of the planet than scientists dared hope. The rover has discovered mineral deposits that point to water in the planet’s past, possible organic compounds, and numerous interesting geological features.
There’s a myriad of coding languages out there, meaning you have plenty of options to choose from whether you need to design a website or create a video game. But, when it comes to working with data, there’s really just one you need to know, and its name is R. Looking to bolster your coding ability with some in-depth data and visualization concepts? Or maybe you want to start from scratch and learn everything there is to know? Thanks to the , you can take a deep dive into over 35 hours of training to perfect your data wrangling and visualization skills.
NASA’s mission started making history the moment it launched. The probe set a record as the fastest (at the time) launch in history, and eight years later it became the first spacecraft to visit Pluto. More recently, New Horizons took a look at a small Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) known as 2014 MU69. Now, NASA has . It’s “Arrokoth,” a Native American term that means “sky” in the Powhatan and Algonquian languages. New Horizons was conceived and built to get a closer look at Pluto. At the time of its launch, Pluto was the ninth planet in the solar system.
Today you can get Apples recently released AirPods Pro headphones with a $15 discount. Pick a set up with Amazon’s current Amazon Music Unlimited promotion to enjoy four months of tunes for just $0.99. Apple’s new AirPods Pro utilizes a new design that’s different from the company’s older AirPod headphones. The key new feature that these headphones have is active noise cancellation. The headphones also use a custom driver and a high dynamic range amplifier to improve sound quality. These headphones just launched two weeks ago, but you can snag them with a $15 discount from Amazon that drops the price from $249.99 to $234.98.
Apple’s rumored 16-inch MacBook Pro is out today. It’s a touch thicker, a touch wider, and it gets rid of one of Apple’s most-disliked and broken products over the past few years — the butterfly switch keyboard. After multiple attempts to fix the design, Apple is getting rid of it. The keyboard has been one of Apple’s most controversial changes, with keys that can jam on a single grain of dirt and an incredibly expensive repair process (until Apple started fixing them for free). “Apple refers to its new board as the Magic Keyboard, whose name and physics are derived from the standalone keyboard that comes with the iMac and iMac Pro,” “Travel distance is improved, to 1mm, and there’s a new rubber dome that complements the butterfly switch.
Android is everywhere nowadays. In addition to powering the user experience on essentially all non-Apple smartphones, Android is also used on numerous tablets, TV boxes, low-end computers and a variety of other devices. This has lead to the creation of an enormous burgeoning app market, and people with the technical know-how to create these apps are highly in-demand. If you’ve never dealt with coding a program before, creating an Android app can be exceedingly difficult, but as Udemy’s “” will show you, there’s more than one way to create an app and some of them are relatively easy. Course Overview
Today, IBM published the results of an internal experiment that undoubtedly sent Apple’s sales team leaping for joy. Since launching its Mac@IBM program, which allowed users a choice in which computer platform they preferred, the company has tracked the results. Said results have been quite favorable for the Mac-using IBM staffers, in multiple metrics. First, keep in mind that these results are at the JAMF Nation User Conference. JAMF is a software platform for administrating Apple devices. The company isn’t just announcing this out of the blue; it’s making a statement of support from the stage of a major software partner.
