Month: April 2020

Oumuamua: Ein ganz normaler interstellarer Asteroid

Außen bis zum Schmelzen aufgeheizt, von der Schwerkraft zerrissen und über Jahrmillionen in der Galaxis unterwegs – ganz normal eben. Von Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer (Astronomie, Internet)

Außen bis zum Schmelzen aufgeheizt, von der Schwerkraft zerrissen und über Jahrmillionen in der Galaxis unterwegs - ganz normal eben. Von Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer (Astronomie, Internet)

Report: Google developing its own processors for Pixel phones and Chromebooks

Google may be planning to take a page out of Apple’s playbook by developing its own custom processors for Google-branded smartphones and laptops. Axios reports that Google “has made significant progress” toward that end, and that we c…

Google may be planning to take a page out of Apple’s playbook by developing its own custom processors for Google-branded smartphones and laptops. Axios reports that Google “has made significant progress” toward that end, and that we could see Pixel smartphones with Google processors as soon as 2021, with Chromebooks featuring the company’s chips later […]

Report: Google developing its own processors for Pixel phones and Chromebooks

Google may be planning to take a page out of Apple’s playbook by developing its own custom processors for Google-branded smartphones and laptops. Axios reports that Google “has made significant progress” toward that end, and that we c…

Google may be planning to take a page out of Apple’s playbook by developing its own custom processors for Google-branded smartphones and laptops. Axios reports that Google “has made significant progress” toward that end, and that we could see Pixel smartphones with Google processors as soon as 2021, with Chromebooks featuring the company’s chips later […]

Another NASCAR driver gets in trouble for idiotic behavior in esports

Kyle Larson benched and dropped by his sponsors after racist remark.

Kyle Larson, driver of the #42 McDonald's McDelivery Chevrolet, races at a virtual Bristol Motor Speedway on April 5.

Enlarge / Kyle Larson, driver of the #42 McDonald's McDelivery Chevrolet, races at a virtual Bristol Motor Speedway on April 5. (credit: Chris Graythen/Getty Images)

Over the past weekend, another NASCAR racing driver has learned that acting like a 12-year-old moron in an online video game does in fact have real-world consequences. Kyle Larson—an early graduate of NASCAR's "Drive for Diversity" program thanks to his half-Japanese ancestry—was competing in the series's new Pro Invitational iRacing series on Sunday night when he used the N-word while talking to his spotter.

In the two days that have followed, Larson has been suspended without pay by his race team and has been benched indefinitely by NASCAR. He has also lost most of his major sponsors. This follows an incident a week ago when NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace lost a sponsor after rage-quitting a race.

During this weekend's esports race, Larson lost communications with his spotter (who acts as a second pair of eyes). "You can't hear me?" Larson asked, followed by the racist remark. Larson may not have realized that his audio feed was being broadcast to the entire livestream, although several other stunned drivers pointed this out to him quickly.

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