Jamie “jwz” Zawinski, famous for being one of the original Netscape developers, being a founder of the Mozilla project, and for this axiom, has laid into Mozilla after the Firefox developers announced they was accepting Dogecoin, Bitcoin, and Ethereum cryptocurrency payments, via Bitpay, for Mozilla’s services and donations. Quote jwz: Read more…
Apple hit a market cap of $3 trillion during intraday trading on Monday, tripling its valuation in under four years. Apple broke the barrier when its share price hit $182.86. From a report: The milestone is mostly symbolic but it shows investors remain bullish on Apple stock and its ability Read more…
“AT&T and Verizon on Sunday rejected the U.S. Department of Transportation’s request that they delay this week’s scheduled launch of a new round of 5G wireless service,” reports Politico, adding that the carriers “instead pledged to take enhanced measures to avoid warned disruptions of air travel…” U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Read more…
“Chinese telecom giant Huawei said on Friday its annual revenue had fallen by nearly a third from the previous year,” reports Agence France-Presse, “as it continued to be weighed down by U.S. sanctions that have hit its smartphone sales…” The firm’s revenue for this year fell by 29% year-on-year to Read more…
“Since joining NASA in 1980, Jim Green has seen it all,” writes the New York Times. He has helped the space agency understand Earth’s magnetic field, explore the outer solar system and search for life on Mars. As the new year arrived on Saturday, he bade farewell to the agency. Read more…
“China has formally approved three missions targeting the south pole of the moon, with the first to launch around 2024…” reports Space.com, “each with different goals and an array of spacecraft.” The trio make up the so-called fourth phase for the Chinese lunar exploration program, which most recently landed on Read more…
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and the head of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday asked AT&T and Verizon Communications to delay the planned January 5 introduction of new 5G wireless service over aviation safety concerns. In a letter Friday seen by Reuters, Buttigieg and FAA Administrator Steve Dickson Read more…