Month: July 2018

The Camp’s first live show starts on July 31st at 5PM Eastern, when a handful of partnered Twitch streamers will answer questions. You’ll also have access to on-demand videos from successful streamers and a calendar of future events if you’re looking for more advice.

There’s a strong financial incentive for Twitch to offer this helping hand: the more people improve the quality of their broadcasts and make careers out of livestreaming, the more likely viewers are to stay tuned in. Even so, there’s no question that this could be genuinely helpful. Livestreaming is still a relatively arcane field with concepts like overlays, channel bots and Discord chats. Although this won’t guarantee Ninja-level fame and fortune by any stretch, it might encourage you to stream on a regular basis if you were previously too nervous.

The price of the 5G-oriented service is still “under discussion,” the sources said. YouTube TV costs $40 per month, though, so we wouldn’t expect that price to vary unless there are significant changes.

Apple and YouTube have declined to comment. We’ve asked Verizon if it can speak about the subject as well. Regardless of what Verizon says, there’s little doubt that it would want help providing video — the company’s in-house offerings haven’t fared very well. It’s shutting down its free Go90 service after struggling to find a wide audience, and it quietly dropped a live TV initiative that would have taken on the likes of DirecTV Now and Sling TV. Even if a partnership was only temporary (as CFO Matt Ellis hinted in May), it could represent the network’s best chance at a ‘hook’ that convinces early adopters to climb aboard.

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According to the DHS, the long-running Russian campaign has affected “hundreds of victims,” and some companies may not even know they’ve been compromised as the attacks relied on the credentials of actual employees, making intrusions harder to identify. The attack is believed to have surfaced in spring 2016 and could still be continuing.

However, while the potential consequences of these attacks are serious, some experts maintain that the tangible risks are no greater than they were before these fresh attacks came to light. After a similar hacking revelation last year, CEO of cybersecurity firm Dragos Robert M. Lee wrote that “Our adversaries are at the starting point of their journey to cause significant disruption to our power grid, not the finish line.”

Following the most recent news of Russian interference, Lee took to Twitter to reiterate that while the warnings of threats are important, much of the language used in reporting them is “not helpful and often misleading.” He noted that cyber threats to industrial infrastructure are getting more aggressive, but urged people not to “hype up” the issue, adding that “It’s bad enough without added fear.”

Back in June, Boeing was testing the abort engines of the spacecraft. While the engines were able to successfully fire for the duration of the hot fire, a problem cropped up at the end of the test. During shutdown, there was a propellant leak. Since then, Boeing has been investigating the problem. “We have been conducting a thorough investigation with assistance from our NASA and industry partners,” the company said in a statement to Ars Technica. “We are confident we found the cause and are moving forward with corrective action. Flight safety and risk mitigation are why we conduct such rigorous testing, and anomalies are a natural part of any test program.”

The launch abort engines are necessary if there is an issue during or after launch. The powerful engines will propel the Starliner away from the rocket, ensuring the crew’s safety. This system is crucial for certifying that the spacecraft is ready to carry human passengers. According to Ars Technica, Boeing has informed NASA that a redesign of the spacecraft is not necessary to fix the issue.

NASA has contracted with both Boeing and SpaceX to build spacecraft for its commercial crew program, and both are delayed. As a result, NASA has worked with Boeing to possibly operationalize the test flights of the Starliner. The first crewed test of the spacecraft is currently scheduled for December 2018, though that date was unlikely before this issue cropped up. However, with this new development, the first crewed test of the spacecraft may be delayed even more as Boeing implements and tests fixes to this propellant leak issue.

This was the third Hyperloop Pod competition to generate working prototypes of SpaceX’s high-speed transit system, and WARR has won them all. But they’ve come a ways since the first outing in January 2017, which the Munich team’s pod took with a pod reaching just 58 mph. The other two finalists were Delft University from the Netherlands (reaching 88 mph) and EPFLoop from Switzerland (reaching 53 mph), who advanced from a pool of 20 student teams from over 40 countries.

The competition’s requirements have increased, too, as the previous two allowed teams to give their pod a boost from a SpaceX-made ‘pusher’ vehicle — but this time around, all craft had to be completely self-propelled. There was also a secondary levitation competition, for which craft must keep their alignment while hovering over the track for some length of time. Each craft also had to pass tests and inspections for safety, including in vacuum chambers.