Day: May 5, 2014

Culture

Yosemite National Park officials tell videographers to leave their drones at home

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As reported on The Verge. By Dante D’Orazio Officials want to make sure your next visit to Yosemite National Park isn’t marred by a drone buzzing overhead. On Friday, the National Park Service issued a statementinforming visitors that unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are banned inside the park’s 1,169 square miles of land in California. The Park Service pointed to existing federal conservation regulations in justifying the ban. The regulations prohibit “delivering or retrieving a person or object by…

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Automotive Engineering

To make a car, Audi had to blow one up

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As reported on The Verge. By Aaron Souppouris The exploded car of Ingolstadt About an hour from Munich, Audi basically runs a city. Its headquarters are situated in Ingolstadt, a city of around 125,000 people. Audi employs over 35,000 here, an enormous complex housing corporate offices, research and development centers, production lines, and a large museum and visitors’ center. Today I’m standing in one of the many innocuous buildings, in front of the company’s new TT…

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Business Politics

HANA Visionary Vishal Sikka Resigns From SAP

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Ron Miller This afternoon, SAP announced in a statement that Vishal Sikka, Executive Board Member for Products and Innovation, has resigned for personal reasons. The resignation was effective immediately. At the same time, SAP named a couple of new executive board members, including Robert Enslin and Bernd Leukert. The news could indicate some disarray or possibly a power struggle at the software giant, especially coming so close to itsSAPPHIRENow Conference, which is scheduled…

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Culture Mobile

NYC inks deal to put train tickets on smartphones

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As reported on Engadget. BY ALEXIS SANTOS Part of New York City’s train system is set to get a 21st-century kick in the pants. Digital tickets that live on commuters’ smartphones will soon be introduced thanks to a deal inked between the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) Board and Masabi, one of eleven companies that offered to build such a system for the city. The pact follows a — presumably successful — trial conducted between Masabi and the…

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Science

Scientists can trace your ancestors to within 30 miles using DNA

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As reported on Engadget. BY STEVE DENT You might know where your forebears lived a few generations prior, but how about the exact village they came from — 1,000 years ago? Thanks to DNA sequencing, it’s now possible to find that out in many cases according to researchers from the University of Sheffield in the UK. The aptly-named GPS or Geographic Population Structure tool was modeled using more than 100,000 DNA signatures called AIMs (ancestry-informative markers). Since those are often typical…

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