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https://gizmodo.com/indian-scientists-measure-1-3-billion-volt-thunderstorm-1833328768
Scientists in India observed the highest-voltage thunderstorm ever documented with the help of a subatomic particle you might not hear much about: the muon.
via Gizmodo https://gizmodo.com
March 15, 2019 at 02:33PM
https://www.engadget.com/2019/03/15/stanley-robotics-robot-valets-airport-france/
After a few years of testing its robot valets, Stanley Robotics will officially put its fleet to use at France’s Lyon-Saint-Exupéry airport this week. If you plan to park in the robot-lot anytime soon, you’ll leave your car in a special garage-like box. One of Stanley’s robots will literally pick up your car and deliver it to a spot. When you return, the system will use your flight information to determine when to bring your car back to a box, where you can pick it up and drive off. As the company says, that should mean no waiting or searching the parking lot.
These self-driving, robo-valets look like large, rectangular boxes, about the width of a small SUV. They essentially act as a forklift, sliding metal arms underneath your car to lift it by the tires. Stanley Robotics told The Verge the system is much more efficient at parking than humans are — though that’s not exactly a high bar. The robot valets can fit 50 percent more cars in the same area, by parking them closer together and a few cars deep.
For now, Stanley Robotics will cover 500 parking spaces, but the company told The Verge it eventually wants to service 6,000 spots. There’s no word yet if the company will launch this at other airports, but it has held trial runs at Düsseldorf International Airport in Germany and Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris. Another test is planned for London’s Gatwick airport later this year.
Source: The Verge, Stanley Robotics
via Engadget http://www.engadget.com
March 15, 2019 at 11:09AM
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1473919
This kind of streaming setup now works anywhere with a good enough Internet connection, not just in the house.
In a major expansion to its years-old in-home game-streaming efforts, Valve announced today that Steam users can now stream games from their PC gaming libraries to devices outside the home as well.
The Steam Link Anywhere program, launched in beta today, lets users stream games from “any computer running Steam” to:
The only requirements for today’s “early beta” release,
, are that “your computer has good upload speed and your Steam Link device has a good network connection.” Those are imprecise terms, of course, but Steam’s in-home streaming has previously
shown a pretty good ability to scale visual quality up and down
based on network conditions.
Valve’s announcement comes just days before Google is expected to
announce its own streaming gaming service and hardware
at next week’s Game Developers Conference. But that service will likely mirror other subscription services like
or
, which stream a selection of games running on powerful centralized servers. Steam Link Anywhere is more akin to
, which essentially lets your home gaming rig serve as the server to stream games you already own.
Just last week, Sony released new PS4 firmware allowing users to stream PS4 games to their iOS devices, expanding a capability that was already available on Android and the PlayStation Vita.
via Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com
March 14, 2019 at 02:46PM
