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Netflix Games is available on mobile devices

Netflix just brought its new gaming service to all subscribers on Android, but now it has officially come to iOS. The service gives users access to a limited selection of mobile games without ads or in-app purchases.

  • Members on an Android mobile phone will see a dedicated games row and games tab where you can select any game to download.
  • Members on an iOS mobile phone will see a dedicated games row where you can select any game to download.
  • Members on an Android or iOS tablet will see a dedicated games row or be able to select games from the categories drop down menu to download and play.

GE is splitting into 3 companies

GE says it will split into three separate publicly traded companies focusing on aviation, healthcare and energy.

The company will spin off the healthcare and energy businesses, leaving behind a GE that will focus on jet engines.

General Electric Co. said it would split into three public companies, breaking apart the more than that was once a symbol of American manufacturing might and has struggled in recent years.

Healthcare

GE said it is spinning off GE Healthcare, which makes MRIs and other hospital equipment, in early 2023, with GE expecting to retain a stake of 19.9% that it plans to sell over time. In 2020, the unit had about $17 billion in revenue.

Energy

G E plans to combine its power unit and renewable energy unit, which make turbines for power plants and wind farms, respectively, and spin off that operation in early 2024. The company’s remaining digital division will also be moved into the power business. Those units together had about $33 billion in revenue in 2020.

Jet Engines

That would leave behind a GE focused on making and servicing jet engines. The unit, a key supplier to Boeing Co., has been hard hit by the pandemic and had about $22 billion revenue in 2020.

Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram suffer worldwide outage

Facebook , Instagram and WhatsApp are suffering from ongoing, global outages. it seems earlier this morning, something inside Facebook caused the company to revoke key digital records that tell computers and other Internet-enabled devices how to find these destinations online.

iOS 15 available today

iOS 15 brings audio and video enhancements to FaceTime, including spatial audio and Portrait mode. Shared with You resurfaces the articles, photos, and other shared content from your Messages conversations in the corresponding app. Focus helps you reduce distractions by filtering out notifications based on what you are currently doing. Notifications have been redesigned and a new notification summary delivers a collection of notifications so you can catch up on your own time. Maps delivers a beautiful redesign with a new three-dimensional city experience and augmented reality walking directions. Live Text uses on-device intelligence to recognize text in photos across the entire system and on the web. New privacy controls in Siri, Mail, and more provide transparency and give you more control over your data.

For information on the security content of Apple software updates, please visit this website: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT201222

iPadOS 15 available today

iPadOS 15 makes multitasking easier to discover, easier to use, and more powerful. Widgets can now be placed among apps on your Home Screen and App Library makes it possible to get to all of your apps right from the dock. Quick Note gives you a fast and easy way take notes over any app or screen. New translation features and the Translate app for iPad help you better understand the world around you. FaceTime calls sound and feel more natural with Audio and video enhancements, including spatial audio and Portrait mode. Focus helps you reduce distractions by filtering out notifications based on what you are currently doing.

For information on the security content of Apple software updates, please visit this website: 

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT201222

El Salvador Becomes First Country to Adopt Bitcoin as National Currency

El Salvador became the first country to adopt bitcoin as a national currency on Tuesday, kicking off a radical monetary experiment that could pose risks to the fragile economy.

Salvadorans will be able to download the “Chivo Wallet,” an application created by the government which will deliver $30 worth of bitcoin to people to promote its use.

El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean. El Salvador’s capital and largest city is San Salvador.

Chivo — a vernacular local term for “cool” — is intended to serve like a mobile payments app, enabling payments in Bitcoin or dollars between individuals and business.

Best Graphics Card for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020

Best AMD for 4K:

XFX AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT RAW II

Best NVIDIA for 4K:

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Best AMD for 1440p:

XFX AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT RAW II PRO

Best NVIDIA for 1440p:

ASUS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

Best AMD for 1080p:

XFX THICC II Pro AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

Best NVIDIA for 1080p:

MSI GAMING X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

Local Amazon Fresh store opened in Long Beach

Amazon Fresh has opened its first Long Beach, CA location grocery store on Thursday, March 18.

This same location used to be the former Haggen Food & Pharmacy on 6235 E. Spring St. The location is the eighth Amazon Fresh store to open in Southern California and the 12th in the US as of this this writing.

Location : 6235 E Spring St, Long Beach, CA 90808

The first Amazon Fresh grocery store in Southern California in Woodland Hills which used to be Toys R Us location.

The main grocery shopping experience at these stores is futuristic Dash Carts, which use cameras facing into the cart to track the shopped items in the basket and allow customers to skip the traditional store checkout lines.

Shoppers will also have the option to use a conventional cart checkout line at the cashier.

Dare Mighty Things – Perseverance Rover

The phrase “Dare mighty things” was encoded on the parachute of NASA’s Perseverance rover using a pattern representing letters as binary computer code.

Using binary code, two messages have been encoded in the neutral white and international-orange parachute gores (the sections that make up the canopy’s hemispherical shape).

Each of the concentric rings in the parachute’s pattern represents one of the words. The zeroes and ones need to be split up into chunks of 10 characters, and from that, adding 64 gives you the computer ASCII code representing a letter.

For example, seven white stripes, a red stripe and then two more white stripes represents 0000000100, the binary for four. Adding 64 to that gives 68, the ASCII code for the letter D.

Dare Mighty Things

Credit

NASA/JPL-Caltech

FDA authorizes Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose Covid-19 vaccine

On February 27, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson for the prevention of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).


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