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In einem exemplarischen Arbeitskampf bestreiken Beschäftigte die Novaltia-Filiale nun seit 754 Tagen im baskischen Bilbao gegen eine Unternehmerschaft, die glaubt, fast alles machen zu können
Manche Fragen braucht man Elon Musk gar nicht erst zu stellen. In anderen Punkten ist sich der Tesla-Chef aber mit Kanzlerkandidat Laschet einig. (Elektroauto, Tesla)
Manche Fragen braucht man Elon Musk gar nicht erst zu stellen. In anderen Punkten ist sich der Tesla-Chef aber mit Kanzlerkandidat Laschet einig. (Elektroauto, Tesla) Die digitale Transformation der Städte: Ein Narrativ und viel gesellschaftliche Ambivalenz
Neue Studie der Carnegie Mellon University und University of Pittsburgh über Zurückhaltung gegenüber der Coronavirus-Impfung befeuert Kritik von Impfgegnern
The series also snagged an early S4 renewal. Huzzah!
Human "familiar" Guillermo (Harvey Guillen) wants nothing more than to be a vampire someday. [credit: YouTube/FX ]
It's no secret that several Ars staffers are big fans of What We Do in the Shadows, FX's Emmy-nominated supernatural comedy series; S2 even made our year's best TV list last year. FX just dropped the official trailer for the eagerly awaited third season. Even better, the network has given the show an early S4 renewal, so we'll be getting plenty more undead shenanigans from our favorite band of bumbling bloodsuckers.
(Some spoilers for first two seasons below.)
As I've written previously, Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement wrote, directed, and starred in the original 2014 horror-comedy, playing vampire roommates Vladislav (Clement) and Viago (Waititi) in Wellington, New Zealand. Given their nocturnal nature, they and their vampire friends haven't adapted to modern life particularly well, and their mishaps as they struggle to navigate mundane trivialities in the 21st century are the source of much of the film's deadpan humor.
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Seit dem gewaltsamen Tod der Berlinerin Maryam H. diskutieren Politik und Medien über “Ehrenmorde”. Mit den Fakten nehmen sie es nicht immer so genau. Eine Überprüfung der gängigsten Behauptungen
Der diese Woche erschienene Bericht des globalen Gremiums zum Klimawandel gibt auch Einblicke in potenzielle regionale Entwicklungen
Der Kernphysiker und Systemingenieur Florian M. Nebel über die Möglichkeiten einer bemannten Marsmission, technologische und mentale Hürden und Elon Musk
“I know this is very, very hard on our NASA and Boeing teams.”
Enlarge / Close-up of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner capsule, white room attached, atop the mighty Atlas V launch vehicle at Cape Canaveral's SLC-41. (credit: Trevor Mahlmann)
Boeing said Friday that its Starliner spacecraft will be grounded indefinitely while it continues to investigate problems with the valves in the propulsion system.
In the 10 days since Boeing and NASA scrubbed the launch in Florida, technicians and engineers have sought to open 13 valves that control the flow of dinitrogen tetroxide (NTO) oxidizer through the service module of the spacecraft. There are 24 oxidizer valves in the propulsion system, which is critical both for in-space travel as well as launch emergency escapes.
Boeing has been able to open nine of the valves, said John Vollmer, vice president and program manager of Boeing’s Commercial Crew Program. The other four remain stuck. As a result, the company plans to de-stack the Starliner spacecraft from its Atlas V rocket and move it to the nearby Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility deeper troubleshooting.
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Matter has a feature-complete specification, but its SDK is coming in 1H 2022.
Enlarge / Renders of products that would use the Matter smart home standard. (credit: Matter)
The rollout of the first certifications for smart home standard Matter—formerly called "Project Connected Home over IP" or "CHIP"—has been delayed to 2022, according to a blog post from Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA) CEO Tobin Richardson.
The Matter standard is backed by Apple, Google, Amazon, and many other big players in the smart home industry. Among other things, it sought to make sure that devices from disparate companies using differing technologies (like Wi-Fi or Zigbee) could reliably work together in some way or another.
We went over the specifics of the technologies used in the standard when it was first announced in 2019. It was previously slated to arrive before the end of 2021. This isn't the first time the standard has been delayed, however; it was originally planned for late 2020.
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