Sacramento deputies dismantle sprawling illegal gambling network after lengthy investigation

Sacramento deputies dismantle sprawling illegal gambling network after lengthy investigation

Sacramento County detectives say they have broken up what they describe as a “large-scale illegal gambling network operating in our… Continue reading Sacramento deputies dismantle sprawling illegal gambling network after lengthy investigation The post Sacramento deputies dismantle sprawling illegal gambling network after lengthy investigation appeared first on ReadWrite .

Get Apple's 15-inch MacBook Air M4 for $1,049 with this weekend deal

Get Apple's 15-inch MacBook Air M4 for $1,049 with this weekend deal

Apple's current 15-inch MacBook Air equipped with the M4 chip has dropped to $1,049 as Amazon competes for your business this weekend. Grab weekend deals on Apple's M4 MacBook Air. The 15-inch M4 MacBook Air features a 10-core GPU, with the standard model also equipped with 16GB of unified memory and a 256GB SSD. Amazon is discounting the standard spec to $1,049, representing a 13% markdown off MSRP. Buy 15" MacBook Air for $1,049 Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

Flux, which offers an AI-powered platform to design PCBs for electronic devices, raised $37M, including a $27M Series B led by 8VC and a $10M Series A (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

Flux, which offers an AI-powered platform to design PCBs for electronic devices, raised $37M, including a $27M Series B led by 8VC and a $10M Series A (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune : Flux, which offers an AI-powered platform to design PCBs for electronic devices, raised $37M, including a $27M Series B led by 8VC and a $10M Series A —  Senior Finance Reporter And Author Of Term Sheet  —  In 2018, Matthias Wagner was leading a 100-person Burning Man camp called Hotel California.

This Acer laptop with 16GB of RAM and 1TB SSD is just $372

This Acer laptop with 16GB of RAM and 1TB SSD is just $372

Acer’s Swift series is a step above its lowest budget offerings. So it’s a bit surprising to see the company offering one on eBay, where its official store has been going ham with good refurb deals for the last few months. Today you can get a sleek Swift Go 14 with 16GB of RAM and an upgraded 1TB SSD for $371.99 , over half off the retail price. The Swift Go 14 uses an Intel Core Ultra 57155H, a 16-core (6/10) Meteor Lake design that debuted in late 2023. So this isn’t the latest and greatest in terms of mobile hardware, but with DDR5 memory and Arc graphics, this laptop should still be able to handle everything except the heaviest games and media applications. 16GB of RAM is the least I would recommend for Windows 11, and the storage is about double what you’ll find on even the most generous laptop at the $500 level. This laptop also gets a better-than-budget 16:10 14-inch display, which is also touch-sensitive, an integrated fingerprint reader, media controls that light up on the touchpad, and plenty of ports. Two USB-C, two USB-A, and full-sized HDMI, plus a MicroSD card reader should cover most users without a dock. But the real star has to be the battery life. In PCWorld’s review , the 65 watt-hour battery managed “epic” battery life, going for almost 15 hours on a 4K video run. You can expect a good bit less than that for regular web browsing or streaming, but it should still get you through a full workday with no problem. This is a refurbished laptop, but coming directly from Acer and with a two-year Allstate warranty, it’s a much safer call than that usually implies. It’s a great deal on a budget machine with a few extra bells and whistles, especially if you need a laptop that will last a long time on a charge. If you prefer something new instead, then check out this deal from earlier in the week, or read PCWorld’s roundup of the best laptops . Get an Acer touchscreen laptop with 16GB and 1TB for $372 View Deal

AI Shakes Up Trucking Stocks

AI Shakes Up Trucking Stocks

The disruptive potential of AI has rattled markets for weeks in what traders are calling the "AI scare trade." Among the companies hit hardest were trucking and logistics stocks, which tanked after Algorhythm, a former karaoke company, said that its AI logistics platform is helping to make trucking more efficient. Gary Atkinson, the CEO of Algorhythm, joined Bloomberg Open Interest to talk about the disruption. (Source: Bloomberg)

NASA overhauls Artemis program, delaying Moon landing to 2028

NASA overhauls Artemis program, delaying Moon landing to 2028

NASA is making major changes to its Artemis Moon program. On Friday, Administrator Jared Isaacman announced the space agency would carry out an additional flight in 2027 to test commercial lunar landers from SpaceX and/or Blue Origin . The new mission will take the place of Artemis 3, which previously would have seen NASA attempt to land on the Moon for the first time since 1972. The flight will also see the agency test a new spacesuit made by Axiom Space. As part of the new plan, the redesigned Artemis 3 mission will give NASA the chance to test at least one lander in the relative safety of low Earth orbit. NASA will attempt to return humans to the Moon during Artemis 4 sometime in 2028, with the potential for another mission as early as later that same year. Per CBS News , the decision comes after NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Plan said the agency's existing mission plan was too risky. "NASA must standardize its approach, increase flight rate safely, and execute on the President’s national space policy. With credible competition from our greatest geopolitical adversary increasing by the day, we need to move faster, eliminate delays, and achieve our objectives," said Isaacman. "Standardizing vehicle configuration, increasing flight rate and progressing through objectives in a logical, phased approach, is how we achieved the near-impossible in 1969 and it is how we will do it again." The change of plan also comes as Artemis 2 has faced multiple delays in recent months. The Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket has, once again, proven to be temperamental. NASA had planned to launch Artemis 2 in early February, but pushed the flight back after it caught a hydrogen leak during a fueling test . More recently, NASA delayed the mission to give its engineers time to fix a helium pressurization issue in the upper stage of the SLS.  At the earliest, the mission can now get underway on April 1. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/science/nasa-overhauls-artemis-program-delaying-moon-landing-to-2028-164255318.html?src=rss