Techstrong News Recap – October 17, 2022
On Oct. 17, William Willis covered NASA’s DART mission that successfully altered the course of the asteroid Dimorphos, Amazon’s announcement of the launch date for its prototype internet satellites and Netflix’s announcement of its ad-supported service. He also talked about how researchers grew brain cells that learned to play the video game Pong. Finally, he previewed articles from Digital CxO, Container Journal and DevOps.com , which covered the growth of the Metaverse’s market size, Microsoft’s announcement that Azure Kubernetes Services can now deploy from the cloud to the network edge and how to secure GraphQL.
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Hi again, everyone here the headlines for October 17th. First up after two weeks of obtaining data NASA's announced that it's double asteroid redirection test or Dart successfully altered the asteroid dimorphosis's orbit. This marks.
The first time humanity has ever purposely changed the motion of a celestial object. NASA originally stated that the issue would be a success if the orbit was changed by 73 seconds or more. Since the Collision occurred on September 26th, NASA has used telescopes to measure that dart-altered the asteroid by 32 minutes more than 25 times longer than the Benchmark for success.
While on the topic of space Amazon is announced that it plans to launch. Its prototype internet satellites early next year the satellites kaipur sat 1 and kaipur sat 2 will be writing into orbit on a Vulcan Centaur rocket from the United launch Alliance in early 2023. The company has stated that the launch will let it perform tests on satellite Network Technology and help finalize the design for their commercial satellite system.
This announcement marks a delay from Amazon since it was originally planning to launch in late 2022 zooming out Amazon is permission to send up over 3,000 satellites to connect people to broadband as it wants to compete with spacex's starlink systems. Next up after 15 years of being commercial free Netflix is announced the price and rollout of its ad supported service. The service which will debut on November 3rd will cost $7 a price undercutting most other AD supported streaming services like Disney Plus.
According to the announcement every hour of viewing will equate to about four to five minutes of ads. The move to create an ad supported version comes after Netflix announces first loss and subscribers and more than a decade earlier this year. Netflix hopes that with this new low price option it will stand out in a market that is Rife with inflation and competition from other streaming services.
In other news researchers have grown brain cells that have learned to play the 1970s video game pong. The researchers grew many brains and then connected them to the game using electrodes. According to the researchers the many brain learned to play in under five minutes, but this being said it did often miss the ball, but it was hitting the ball well above random chance.
The mini brains were originally created back in 2013 to study genetic disorders, but has since been used to research into brain development. The researchers hope that with the breakthroughs like this and others like them they will eventually be able to create treatments for a neurodegenerative disorders. On digital cxl.
We have an article looking at the growth of the metaverse that is expected to occur over the next decade. 9 billion by 2030. It is expected to reach 96 billion dollars.
com On container Journal we have an article looking at Microsoft's announcement of the ability to deploy Azure kubernetes services from the cloud to the network edge with this new capability. It promises that will make it simpler to synchronize the management of AKs across multiple platforms. To learn more about this new feature as well as a handful of other new features and updates announced that ignite 2022.
com. com. We have an article that looks at how to secure a graphql.
Many organizations are hesitant to adopt graphql, since there's no clear method to handle authorization concerns. Without a role-based access layer, the query language can cause control issues. com.
And that's today's text wrong news recap.





