Lunar life Aliens may have lived on the MOON twice in the past, scientists claim
Researchers from Washington State University suggest that aliens may have lived on the moon twice in history - once 4 billion years ago, and again 3.5 billion years ago

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Fortnite is hosting a special event to celebrate its first birthday - here's how you can get involved
To celebrate Fortnitefirst birthday, Epic Games is hosting a limited time in-game event, starting today and lasting until August 7

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Fuchsia, Chrome OS, and the danger of black-and-white thinking

Gather 'round, kiddos: Granpappy Writerman has a story to share. And stick with me through this, 'cause I swear it's building up to something important — something that may just shift how you think about one of tech's most titillating topics.

Way back in 2009, you see, an upstart little company known as Google came out with a strange-seeming operating system called Chrome OS. In the beginning, it was a humble effort — with nary more to its name than a maximized browser window locked down onto unremarkable hardware.

But Google saw promise in this fledgling project — and despite the broad dismissals and echoes of laughter surrounding it, the company stayed focused and worked tirelessly to refine the formula. There had to be a balance of simplicity and function that'd make a cloud-centric computing platform compelling, Google thought, and now was the time to find it.

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It's quite a few years back, and this consultant pilot fish is designated to check out a client with a history of intermittent and hard-to-pin-down issues. After I talked with in charge, the choice was to attempt straightening the heads on their huge drive, says fish. Because the system was vital facilities during the day, the work needed to be carried out in the middle of the night-- and done it was. The friendly operator was not an early bird, so he had actually asked if I could reboot the production system after the alignment. I mounted the production pack and started the boot-- only to see the boot gadget jam, and hear the disk-drive diagnostic-- which was still in memory-- start editing the production boot block.

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The Motiv ring is a remarkably capable physical fitness tracker. Look, I stated so right here in my evaluation. Up previously, nevertheless, ithad one glaring omission: it didn & t deal with Android. After a year and a half of promises, the company has actually finally dealt with the issue, making its wearable suitable with the worldlargest mobile os. The business offered up compatibility in an open-beta back in April, and the last variation of the appis now live to all users on a variety of various Android handsets, consisting of the Samsung Galaxy S7, S8, S9, Note 5, and Note 8, Google Pixel and Pixel 2. In a press release connected to the news, the companyCEO Tejash Unadkat called Android compatibility Motiv & most asked for ask. & As to what took the business so long to roll it out, I think ita combination of having a relatively small group and wanting to get all of the concerns with Android just. In addition to full Android assistance, Motiv also included combination with Googlehealth-tracking app, Fit.

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Rescale, the startup that wants to bring high performance computing to the cloud, announced a $32 million Series B investment today led by Initialized Capital, Keen Venture Partners and SineWave Ventures.

They join a list of well-known early investors that included Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Paul Graham, Ron Conway, Chris Dixon, Peter Thiel and others. Todayinvestment brings the total amount raised to $52 million, according to the company.

Rescale works with engineering, aerospace, scientific and other verticals and helps them move their legacy high performance computing applications to the cloud. The idea is to provide a set of high performance computing resources, whether thaton prem or in the cloud, and help customers tune their applications to get the maximum performance.

Traditionally HPC has taken place on prem in a companydata center. These companies often have key legacy applications they want to move to the cloud and Rescale can help them do that in the most efficient manner, whether that involves bare metal a virtual machine or a container.

&We help take a portfolio of [legacy] applications running on prem and help enable them in the cloud or in a hybrid environment. We tune and optimize the applications on our platform and take advantage of capital assets on prem, then we help extend that environment to different cloud vendors or tune to best practices for the specific application,& company CEO and co-founder Joris Poort explained.

Rescale reels in $32 million Series B to bring HPC to cloud

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Ben Verwaayen, who is a partner at one of the lead investors, Keen Venture Partners, sees a company going after a large legacy market with a new approach. &The market is currently 95% on-premise, and Rescale supports customers as they move to hybrid and eventually to a fully cloud native solution. Rescale helps CIOs enable the digital transformation journey within their enterprise, to optimize IT resources and enable meaningful productivity and cost improvements,& Verwaayen said in a statement.

The new influx of cash should help Rescale, well, scale, and that will involve hiring more developers, solutions architects and the like. The company wants to also use the money to expand its presence in Asia and Europe and establish relationships with systems integrators, who would be a good fit for a product like this and help expand their market beyond what they can do as a young startup.

The company, which is based in San Francisco, was founded in 2011 and has 80 employees. They currently have 150 customers including Sikorsky Innovation, Boom Aerospace and Trek Bikes.

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