During a press conference Monday morning, NASA provided an update on the status of the Webb Space Telescope and released images from the telescope that put Webb’s progress on dazzling display. “I’m delighted to report that the telescope alignment has been completed with performance even better than we had anticipated,” Read more…
EA Sports will rename their popular FIFA game series after they failed to extend their partnership with world football’s governing body. The Athletic revealed in October that EA Sports were considering renaming their gaming series and it has now been revealed it will be called EA Sports FC from 2023. Read more…
Last October marked 20 years of the iPod. It’s a remarkable run in the cutthroat, always-iterating world of consumer electronics. And while it’s undoubtedly true that life hasn’t been particularly fruitful for the music player in a product lineup that includes various iPhones and iPads, the beloved music player has Read more…
Apple’s director of machine learning, Ian Goodfellow, “is leaving the company due to its return to work policy,” reports a tech reporter for the Verge. “In a note to staff, he said ‘I believe strongly that more flexibility would have been the best policy for my team.’” 9to5Mac notes that Read more…
40 days ago Bitcoin sold for $47,454. It’s price now is $34,007 — a drop of 28%. About a third of that drop happened this week, as “Bitcoin, ethereum and other major cryptocurrencies have fallen sharply,” Forbes reports, “wiping around $200 billion from the crypto market in just a matter Read more…
Investors are divided about whether technology companies are set for a deep retrenchment or if growth is simply slowing from pandemic highs. The technology industry, which powered the U.S. economy during the pandemic and grew at tremendous scale during a decade of ultralow interest rates, is confronting one of the Read more…
A UCLA assistant professor of Information Studies just published a short history of software engineering in Logic magazine — titled “Agile and the Long Crisis of Software.” It begins by describing Agile’s history as “a long-running wrestling match between what managers want software development to be and what it really Read more…