Things down here on Earth may be business as usual — mergers, lawsuits, taxes, paradigm shifts, feature updates and so on — but exciting things are happening Up Above as well as Out There. SpaceX had another successful rocket launch and resupply mission to the International Space Station, the Juno craft decided to take the long way around Jupiter for bonus science, NASA announced the discovery of seven possibly life-supporting exoplanets and Winston Churchill was writing about life beyond Earth way back in the 1930s. El Kaiser and J.D. discuss it all on this week’s episode of Pop Tech Jam, so Mr. Sulu, take us out!
Links to Stories in This Week’s News Segment
- Verizon and Yahoo amend terms of definitive agreement (Verizon)
- Verizon to deliver 5G service to pilot customers in 11 markets across U.S. by Mid 2017 (Verizon)
- Office for Mac gets Touch Bar support with Outlook integration coming soon (Macworld)
- Announcing updates to Windows 10 Mail & Calendar apps (Windows blog)
- MacBook Pro Touch Bar support now available for Office 2016 for Mac (9to5Mac)
- The Mark Zuckerberg Manifesto: Great for Facebook, bad for journalism (The Atlantic)
- Uber investigating harassment claims by ex-employee (NYTimes.com)
- Uber hires ex-U.S. Attorney General Holder to probe sexual harassment (Reuters)
- Key moments from Snap’s I.P.O. roadshow video (NYTimes.com)
- Share up to 10 photos and videos in one post (Instagram)
- Apple will fight ‘Right to Repair’ legislation (Motherboard)
- Apple buys Israel’s facial recognition firm RealFace (Times of Israel)
- iPhone 8 will include ‘revolutionary’ front camera with 3D sensing abilities (MacRumors)
- Apple Park opens to employees in April (Apple Newsroom)
- Google Nexus 7 (2017) To Feature Andromeda OS (GigJets)
- The robot that takes your job should pay taxes, says Bill Gates (Quartz)
- SpaceX launches first private rocket from historic NASA pad — then sticks a landing (Space.com)
- Juno to remain in current orbit at Jupiter (Phys.org)
- NASA telescope reveals largest batch of Earth-size, habitable-zone planets around single star (NASA)
- Churchill essay on the possibility of alien life discovered in US college (Guardian)
- Churchill the Astrobiologist? (Scientific American Blog Network)