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- Today I learned that card grading companies are drowning in Pokémon cards
- This world-ending asteroid is the perfect vehicle for Pink Floyd
- Facebook acquires the developers of VR military simulator Onward
- NASA suspends SpaceX’s $2.9 billion moon lander contract after rivals protest
- Federal COVID-19 vaccine website launches with Spanish-language version
- Want a new 12.9-inch iPad Pro? You may have to wait until July
- Acing its fourth flight on Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity will advance to a new testing round
- Basecamp implodes as employees flee company, including senior staff
- Roku and YouTube TV are now in an all-out public showdown
- Instacart shoppers say their accounts were wrongly deactivated
| Today I learned that card grading companies are drowning in Pokémon cards Posted: 30 Apr 2021 06:05 PM PDT  A report from Vice has opened my eyes to just how big the Pokémon trading card collecting market is getting — apparently to the point where card rating companies have waitlists that range from six to ten months, with one company claiming it's receiving over 500,000 cards to grade per week. The card graders, who rate trading cards' conditions to determine how collectable (and therefore valuable) they are, are so swamped that people who want to get their Magic, Yu-Gi-Oh, or sports cards graded are also having to wait in line (or pay out the nose to skip it). One card rating company apparently needed employees so bad it offered $1,000 starting bonuses — and then bumped them up to $2,500. Another company had to buy two warehouses to store... |
| This world-ending asteroid is the perfect vehicle for Pink Floyd Posted: 30 Apr 2021 05:15 PM PDT  If you'd like a visual of one way that doom could overtake Earth almost immediately, then YouTube user Anselo La Manna has just the video for you: a large asteroid impact simulation scored to nothing other than Pink Floyd. Specifically, that's "Great Gig in the Sky," off what might be the band's most beloved and over-analyzed album, Dark Side of the Moon. It's got everything total annihilation needs: contemplative piano, pedal steel guitar, and of course, a plaintive wail, capturing the whole range of emotions that people might feel if they were burned to a crisp because one big rock hit another. Anselo La Manna also hosts the original clip the mashup video uses on their YouTube page, a simulation of a large asteroid impact. It appears... |
| Facebook acquires the developers of VR military simulator Onward Posted: 30 Apr 2021 03:30 PM PDT  Facebook's Oculus division has snatched up yet another popular virtual reality game developer. On Friday, the company announced it has acquired Downpour Interactive, the studio behind the hit multiplayer military simulator Onward. "We've seen great success with Onward on the Oculus platform for several years — first on Rift and more recently on Quest," Mike Verdu, Facebook's VP of AR / VR content, said in a blog post. "Becoming part of the Oculus Studios family will give Downpour Interactive the opportunity to cultivate both the Onward community with the full support of Oculus Studios resources, and, in the future, pursue other projects." Everyone from Downpour Interactive will move over to the... |
| NASA suspends SpaceX’s $2.9 billion moon lander contract after rivals protest Posted: 30 Apr 2021 02:57 PM PDT  NASA has suspended work on SpaceX's new $2.9 billion lunar lander contract while a federal watchdog agency adjudicates two protests over the award, the agency said Friday. Putting the Human Landing System (or HLS) work on hold until the GAO makes a decision on the two protests means SpaceX won't immediately receive its first chunk of the $2.9 billion award, nor will it commence the initial talks with NASA that would normally take place at the onset of a major contract. Elon Musk's SpaceX was picked by NASA on April 16th to build the agency's first human lunar lander since the Apollo program, as the agency opted to rely on just one company for a high-profile contract that many in the space industry expected to go to two companies. As a... |
| Federal COVID-19 vaccine website launches with Spanish-language version Posted: 30 Apr 2021 02:19 PM PDT  The Biden administration's version of a COVID-19 vaccine-finding website launched today, along with a Spanish-language version, text messaging tool, and phone hotline. The new website, vaccines.gov, is a new version of VaccineFinder, a site run through a partnership between Boston Children's Hospital and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. VaccineFinder was originally created during the 2009 swine flu outbreaks and has hosted COVID-19 vaccine information for the past few months. The new version has the same features as the old site. It lets people locate sites offering COVID-19 vaccines nearby, shows which vaccines are on offer at each location, and says if the vaccines are in stock or not. "In stock" does not necessarily... |
| Want a new 12.9-inch iPad Pro? You may have to wait until July Posted: 30 Apr 2021 02:16 PM PDT  If you're hoping to get one of the new 12.9-inch iPad Pros with a Mini LED display, you may be waiting a while — the delivery times for even the base model have slipped to late June or early July (via Bloomberg). Leading up to the device's announcement, there were rumors that the display tech could be a production bottleneck for Apple, and that appears to be the case — Apple's site says the 11-inch iPad Pro, announced alongside the 12.9-inch, would be delivered in late May. The Mini LED display that could be to blame for the short supply of iPads is a new tech for Apple, but it promises to bring a ton of improvements compared to normal LED displays. However, they're trickier to produce — Apple says that the previous iPad Pro's display... |
| Acing its fourth flight on Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity will advance to a new testing round Posted: 30 Apr 2021 02:15 PM PDT  After acing a set of historic test flights on Mars, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter will embark on a new, more advanced test mission, engineers said today. Having proved itself capable of flying higher and farther with its fourth flight on Friday, the mini helicopter will get ready to demonstrate how it could help Mars rovers, like Perseverance, scout for new locations and probe areas inaccessible to wheeled robots. Ingenuity, which became the first helicopter to fly on another world earlier this month, was initially set to retire forever when its flight demonstration phase ends next week, after completing five flights. But the team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory okayed another round of testing because Perseverance's post-landing health... |
| Basecamp implodes as employees flee company, including senior staff Posted: 30 Apr 2021 01:20 PM PDT  After a controversial blog post in which CEO Jason Fried outlined Basecamp's new philosophy that prohibited, among other things, "societal and political discussions" on internal forums, company co-founder David Heinemeier Hansson said the company would offer generous severance packages to anyone who disagreed with the new stance. On Friday, it appears a large number of Basecamp employees are taking Hansson up on his offer: according to The Verge contributing editor Casey Newton's sources, roughly a third of the company's 57 employees accepted buyouts today. As of Friday afternoon, 18 people had tweeted they were planning to leave. Not long after Fried's Monday blog post went public — and was revised several times amid public backlash... |
| Roku and YouTube TV are now in an all-out public showdown Posted: 30 Apr 2021 12:45 PM PDT  On Friday morning, Roku pulled YouTube TV from its channel store. Its removal came after Roku's distribution agreement for the app expired and negotiations between it and Google fell apart without any new deal in sight. The popular streaming hardware maker warned customers of this outcome earlier in the week, claiming that Google was demanding unrealistic terms to renew YouTube TV's slot on the platform. Those asks, according to Roku, included access to sensitive customer data and an apparent commitment from Roku to support AV1 decoding in future products. That requires extra hardware that Roku maintains could increase the cost of its devices. Roku also says that Google is trying to have changes made to Roku's search feature, an... |
| Instacart shoppers say their accounts were wrongly deactivated Posted: 30 Apr 2021 11:57 AM PDT  Some Instacart shoppers claim that the company has wrongfully terminated their accounts in response to fraudulent activity, locking them out of future earnings until they get reactivated, CNN Business reports. The shoppers CNN Business spoke to were identified as having "linked accounts," which, in Instacart's terminology, means an account believed to have indicators of fraud, though not necessarily with compromised data connected to a shopper. The company offers a process for appealing deactivations, but at least one of the shoppers CNN Business spoke to, Rachael Freedman, still hasn't had her account reactivated because her appeal was denied. Instacart provided the same statement to T... |
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