Apple to open first retail store in India in 2021
Apple Inc will open its first physical retail store in India in 2021, Chief Executive Tim Cook said on Wednesday.
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Month: February 2020
Disney’s CEO, Bob Iger, out as CEO, names Bob Chapek
During the closing bell on Tuesday, news broke that long time Disney CEO, Bob Iger, resigned his position effective immediately, and named Bob Chapek as CEO.
In a statement, Iger said:
“I have the utmost confidence in Bob and look forward to working closely with him over the next 22 months as he assumes this new role and delves deeper into Disney’s multifaceted global businesses and operations, while I continue to focus on the Company’s creative endeavors.”
Iger was preparing to leave as CEO for quite sometime and felt that now would be the time to do it. He will remain as chairman of the company until sometime in 2021.
U.S. FCC Publishes Tips on how to Protect your Smart Device
The high resale value of smartphones – along with the personal information contained on such devices – make them a prime target for criminals and identity thieves. You can protect yourself, your device and the data it contains by following the guidelines below if your device is lost or stolen.
Safeguard against smart device theft
- Consider your surroundings and use your device discreetly.
- Never leave your device unattended in a public place. Don't leave it visible in an unattended car.
- Note the device’s make, model number and serial number, as well as its unique device identification number -- either the International Mobile Equipment Identifier (IMEI), the Mobile Equipment Identifier (MEID) number, or the Electronic Serial Number (ESN). The device ID number is usually found in your device settings or printed on a label affixed to your device underneath the battery. Police may need this information if the device is stolen or lost.
- Review your warranty or service agreement to learn what happens if your phone is stolen or lost.
- You may also consider buying device insurance.
How to protect the data on your phone
- Establish a strong password to restrict access. If your device is stolen or lost, this will help protect you from both unwanted usage charges and from theft and misuse of your personal data.
- Install and maintain anti-theft software. Apps are available that will:
- Locate the device from any computer or device connected to the internet.
- Lock the device to restrict access.
- Wipe sensitive data from the device, including contacts, text messages, photos, emails, browser histories and other user accounts.
- Trigger the device to emit a loud noise to help the police locate it.
- Use your lock screen to display contact information, such as an e-mail address or alternative phone number, so that the phone may be returned to you if found. Avoid including sensitive information, such as your home address.
Be careful about what information you store. Social networking and other apps may allow unwanted access to your personal information.
What to do if your wireless device is stolen
- Attempt to locate the device by calling it or by using an anti-theft software-enabled GPS locator.
- If you have installed anti-theft software on your device, use it to lock the phone, wipe sensitive information and/or activate the alarm. Even if you think you may have only lost the device, you should remotely lock it to be safe.
- If the device was stolen, immediately report the theft to the police, including the make and model, serial and IMEI or MEID or ESN number. Some service providers require proof that the device was stolen, and a police report would provide that documentation.
- Immediately report the theft or loss to your service provider. You will be responsible for any charges incurred prior to when you report the stolen or lost device.
- Your service provider may be able to use your IMEI or MEID or ESN number to disable your device and block access to the information it carries.
- Request written confirmation from your service provider that you reported the device as missing and that the device was disabled.
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NASA Wants Your Help Designing a Venus Rover Concept
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, under a grant from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program, is running a public challenge to develop an obstacle avoidance sensor for a possible future Venus rover. The "Exploring Hell: Avoiding Obstacles on a Clockwork Rover" challenge is seeking the public's designs for a sensor that could be incorporated into the design concept.
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An illustration of a concept for a possible wind-powered Venus rover. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech[/caption]
Venus is an extreme world. With a surface temperature in excess of 840 degrees Fahrenheit and a surface pressure 90 times that of Earth, Venus can turn lead into a puddle and crush a nuclear-powered submarine with ease. While many missions have visited our sister planet, only about a dozen have made contact with the surface of Venus before quickly succumbing to the oppressive heat and pressure.
The last spacecraft to touch the planet's surface, the Soviet Vega 2, landed in 1985. Now, engineers and scientists at JPL are studying mission designs that can survive the hellish landscape.
"Earth and Venus are basically sibling planets, but Venus took a turn at one point and became inhospitable to life as we know it," said Jonathan Sauder, a senior mechatronics engineer at JPL and principal investigator for the Automaton Rover for Extreme Environments (AREE) concept. "By getting on the ground and exploring Venus, we can understand what caused Earth and Venus to diverge on wildly different paths and can explore a foreign world right in our own backyard."
Exploring and studying different geologic units across the surface of Venus could help us understand the planet's evolution, and could contribute to a better understanding of Earth's climate.
Powered by wind, AREE is intended to spend months, not minutes, exploring the Venus landscape. AREE could collect valuable, long-term longitudinal scientific data. As the rover explores the planet, it must also detect obstacles in its path, such as rocks, crevices and steep terrain. And NASA is crowdsourcing help for that sensor design. The challenge's winning sensor will be incorporated into the rover concept and could potentially one day be the mechanism by which a rover detects and navigates around obstructions.
The difficulty of this challenge is in designing a sensor that does not rely on electronic systems. Current state-of-the-art electronics fail at just over 250 degrees Fahrenheit and would easily succumb to the extreme Venus environment. That is why NASA is turning to the global community of innovators and inventors for a solution.
"This is an exciting opportunity for the public to design a component that could one day end up on another celestial body," said Ryon Stewart, challenge coordinator for the NASA Tournament Lab at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. "NASA recognizes that good ideas can come from anywhere and that prize competitions are a great way to engage the public's interest and ingenuity and make space exploration possible for everyone."
Participants will have an opportunity to win a first-place prize of $15,000. Second place wins $10,000; and third place, $5,000. JPL is working with the NASA Tournament Lab to execute the challenge on the heroX crowdsourcing platform. Submissions will be accepted through May 29, 2020.
"When faced with navigating one of the most challenging terrestrial environments in the solar system, we need to think outside the box," Sauder said. "That is why we need the creativity of makers and garage inventors to help solve this challenge."
For more information about the challenge and how to enter, visit:
https://www.herox.com/VenusRover
AREE is an early-stage research study funded by the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program within the agency's Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD). NIAC is a visionary and far-reaching aerospace program, one that has the potential to create breakthrough technologies for possible future space missions; however, such early-stage technology developments may never become actual NASA missions.
NASA Tournament Lab is part of NASA's Prizes and Challenges program within STMD. The program supports the use of public competitions and crowdsourcing as tools to advance NASA R&D and other mission needs.
Learn more about opportunities to participate in your space program:
