High Hopes plans to extract atmospheric CO2 with hot air balloons
A German-Israeli startup has chosen Earth Day to announce its plan to launch an audacious carbon capture plan with balloons. High Hopes believes that its proposed solution will make it easier, and cheaper, to extract large volumes of CO2 from the air. The company has only launched a few trial missions to test its theory…
The Morning After: NASA’s Perseverance rover is making oxygen on Mars
After a relatively quiet few months, all the game movie news came at the same time. No, it’s not another Uncharted delay (that we know of), but a new, reimagined Mortal Kombat movie lands tomorrow. While you can expect violence and gore (of course), according to screenwriter Greg Russo, ensuring the humor of Mortal Kombat’s…
Microsoft and the UK will build the world’s ‘most powerful’ weather supercomputer
The British are taking their obsession with the weather to new heights. Today, the UK announced it is advancing its project to build the world’s most powerful climate and weather supercomputer with the help of Microsoft. The country’s weather service, the Met Office, has struck a multimillion-pound agreement with the tech company on the project,…
Garmin’s Venu 2 smartwatches offer sleep scores and health snapshots
Garmin has unveiled the Venu 2 and smaller Venu 2S fitness-oriented smartwatches with a host of extra health features over the original Venu model. Both models now offer sleep scores powered by Firstbeat Analytics, tracking light, deep and REM sleep stages along with movement, pulse Ox2 and breathing. You’ll then get info on how to…
Google’s Live Caption feature comes to Chromebooks
Google’s Live Caption feature uses AI to auto-generate onscreen subtitles for any media that plays audio on your device. The tool is designed to help deaf and hard-of-hearing people, but can also be useful in noisy environments. After launching on Android in 2019, Google has gradually expanded the assistive feature across its ecosystem, bringing it…
SAP Q1 2021: Revenue nudges up 2% year-on-year, S/4 adoption up 2.5% on prior quarter
SAP has reported first quarter 2021 revenue of €6.35bn, up 2% on the same year-ago quarter. Cloud revenue has increased by 1% year-on-year, and S/4 adoption is up 2.5% on the previous quarter By Brian McKenna, Business Applications Editor Published: 22 Apr 2021 12:45 SAP has reported first quarter 2021 revenue of €6.35bn, up 2%…
Met Office prepares for 1.5 million processor, 60 petaflop supercomputer
Azure, Cray supercomputers and Epyc core are the key ingredients inside weather forecasting service’s latest development to improve data By Cliff Saran, Managing Editor Published: 22 Apr 2021 12:01 The Met Office has signed a deal with Microsoft to build one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. The system is built around four quadrants, each…
Automation, zero-trust, API-based security priorities for EMEA CISOs
Report by FireMon sheds light on buyer behaviour across the EMEA region By Alex Scroxton, Security Editor Published: 22 Apr 2021 11:45 Cyber security leaders across EMEA are prioritising investments in security orchestration automation, zero-trust and API-based security as they attempt to optimise their network security postures as they face up to an ever-expanding threat…
Ireland’s datacentre industry launches pro-pollinator plan to boost bee population
claireliz – stock.adobe.com Host In Ireland leads efforts to encourage datacentre operators to help boost biodiversity at their sites by making them more hospitable to bees and other pollinators By Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK Published: 22 Apr 2021 11:31 Ireland’s datacentre industry is embarking on a concerted biodiversity push to support a country-wide campaign…
ToxicEye malware exploits Telegram messaging service
Tierney – stock.adobe.com The Telegram instant messaging service is being used by malicious actors to manage a remote access trojan called ToxicEye By Alex Scroxton, Security Editor Published: 22 Apr 2021 11:00 The operators of a remote access trojan (RAT) dubbed ToxicEye are managing their cyber crime campaign by exploiting features of the secure Telegram…