This has to be one of the best Giveaways at TechieLobang. After realizing many readers are interested in Giveaways, I decided to approach one of the local companies to sponsor such Giveaways. Thanks to Parallels, I am proud to organize this Parallels Desktop Switch to Mac Edition Giveaway (worth US$79.99 SGD 159 each).
If you know me, I am a PC person. I dont own a Mac. So, for this Giveaway, I did not do a review on this product.
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An MQ-8B Fire Scout onboard the USS McInerney.
An unmanned MQ-8B Fire Scout helicopter can launch by itself, fly by itself — and with a single slip, can nearly blow up by itself.
According to a June 24 report from the Defense Department’s director of operational test and evaluation, the critical error came when the drone’s operator accidentally pressed the spacebar with a wire from his headset — launching the self-destruct mechanism on the vehicle.
Several steps are required to complete the self-destruct procedure, explains a story on Navy News, and the Fire Scout was saved in the end.
There might soon be another company competing in the mobile operating system market, The Wall Street Journal is reporting.
China-based online-commerce company Alibaba is planning to launch a mobile operating system in the third quarter, the Journal says, citing someone “close to the situation.” The operating system will reportedly have cloud-based elements, including allowing users to access applications over the Web, rather than download them to their devices.
The fact that Alibaba is considering launching a mobile operating system is somewhat surprising.
If you’re in college or university, odds are you’ve spent hundreds of dollars on textbooks for your classes. If you have an Amazon Kindle, you can save a little bit of cash by getting a digital version of your textbook, if available. Now, Amazon is announcing a textbook renting service for the Kindle that will see discounts of up to 80%. The discount varies depending on how long you rent the book for, between 30 and 360 days, and it looks like thousands of textbooks now have the renting option. Publishers like John Wiley & Sons, Elsevier, and Taylor & Francis are on board, so hopefully we’ll see a larger variety of textbooks available for rent. Read full article…