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- Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving
- Charles Geschke, co-founder of Adobe and co-inventor of the PDF, has died at 81
- Federal investigators looking into breach at software code testing company Codecov
- Roblox to introduce content ratings for games to better restrict age-inappropriate content
- Google introducing a feature in Chrome 90 to create links to highlighted text on a webpage
- Amazon has canceled its Lord of the Rings MMO game
- NASA reschedules Ingenuity helicopter’s first flight on Mars for Monday
| Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving Posted: 18 Apr 2021 10:01 AM PDT  Authorities in Texas say two people were killed when a Tesla with no one in the driver's seat crashed into a tree and burst into flames, Houston television station KPRC 2 reported. The cause of the crash, which happened at about 9PM local time in Spring, Texas (near Houston), is under investigation. According to KHOU in Houston, first responders had to use 30,000 gallons of water over four hours to put out the fire, as the Tesla's battery kept reigniting. Authorities tried to contact Tesla for advice on putting out the fire; it's not clear whether they received any response.
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| Charles Geschke, co-founder of Adobe and co-inventor of the PDF, has died at 81 Posted: 18 Apr 2021 07:05 AM PDT  Charles "Chuck" Geschke, a co-founder of Adobe who helped develop the PDF, has died at age 81, the company said in a statement. "This is a huge loss for the entire Adobe community and the technology industry, for whom he has been a guide and hero for decades," Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen said in an email to Adobe employees. "As co-founders of Adobe, Chuck and John Warnock developed groundbreaking software that has revolutionized how people create and communicate," Narayen said. "Chuck instilled a relentless drive for innovation in the company, resulting in some of the most transformative software inventions, including the ubiquitous PDF, Acrobat, Illustrator, Premiere Pro and Photoshop." Geschke earned a doctorate from Carnegie Mellon...  |
| Federal investigators looking into breach at software code testing company Codecov Posted: 18 Apr 2021 05:53 AM PDT  Federal officials are investigating a security breach at software auditing company Codecov, which apparently went undetected for months, Reuters reported. Codecov's platform is used to test software code for vulnerabilities, and its 29,000 clients include Atlassian, Proctor & Gamble, GoDaddy, and the Washington Post. In a statement on the company's website, Codecov CEO Jerrod Engelberg acknowledged the breach and the federal investigation, saying someone had gained access to its Bash Uploader script and modified it without the company's permission. "Our investigation has determined that beginning January 31, 2021, there were periodic, unauthorized alterations of our Bash Uploader script by a third party, which enabled them to...  |
| Roblox to introduce content ratings for games to better restrict age-inappropriate content Posted: 17 Apr 2021 02:23 PM PDT  Virtual gaming platform Roblox is developing content ratings for games and easier-to-use parental controls, the company's chief privacy officer Remy Malan told The Wall Street Journal. Half of Roblox's audience of more than 30 million daily users are kids under 13, but the platform has struggled at times to contain sexually explicit content. Age-inappropriate games sometimes surface up on kids' "recommended for you" lists, according to the WSJ. The platform's current system restricts kids to specific games, but under the new system, parents would have more information about what kids might find in a given game; until you play a game, it's not always clear that it might have explicit or inappropriate content in it. Malan did not...  |
| Google introducing a feature in Chrome 90 to create links to highlighted text on a webpage Posted: 17 Apr 2021 01:41 PM PDT  An upcoming feature in Chrome 90 will allow users to create a link to a section of a website that they've highlighted. First launched as a browser extension called Link to Text Fragment last year, Google has now added the feature within Chrome itself. The new feature is still rolling out to users; I wasn't able to get it to work even after I updated to Chrome 90. But the feature works just like the browser extension did, according to a blog post from Google product manager Kayce Hawkins: Visit a web page, highlight the text you want to create a link to, right click, and select "copy link to highlight." A URL ending in a pound sign (#) is generated, which you can then share with others. When they open the link, they'll be sent to the...  |
| Amazon has canceled its Lord of the Rings MMO game Posted: 17 Apr 2021 01:00 PM PDT  Amazon Game Studios has canceled a Lord of the Rings online role-playing game, Bloomberg reported. The company announced the project with Leyou-owned Athlon Games back in 2019, and planned it to be a free-to-play game for PC and consoles. The game was to be set "at a time long before the events of The Lord of the Rings, exploring lands, people and creatures never seen before by fans of the Tolkien universe," according to an announcement from Athlon at the time. But Leyou was acquired by Tencent Holdings in December, and an Amazon spokesperson said in an email to The Verge that the company was "unable to secure terms to proceed with this title at this time." The team from the LOTR project will work on other games for the company, the...  |
| NASA reschedules Ingenuity helicopter’s first flight on Mars for Monday Posted: 17 Apr 2021 12:04 PM PDT  NASA has rescheduled the first flight of its Ingenuity Mars helicopter to April 19th at 3:30AM ET, the agency announced Saturday. The four-pound helicopter that arrived on Mars on February 18th with its parent rover Perseverance has seen its first flight delayed a few times. It touched the surface of Mars on April 4th, and has been undergoing tests and checkouts. It survived its first night alone on Mars' frigid surface, passing a first test of its independence from Perseverance. The craft was scheduled to take flight April 11th, but last weekend NASA said data from a high-speed rotor test showed the test sequence ended early, as Ingenuity's computer tried to switch from pre-flight to flight mode The date was pushed back again after...  |
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