Comment on Apple patent application seeks to electrically detect windshield cracks - Roadshow

You can officially claim autonomous commercial drones for your 2021 bingo card.  On Friday, Massachusetts-based industrial drone developer American Robotics announced it had received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to operate its fully-automated "Scout" drones without any humans on-site.  It's the first waiver of its kind, as the FAA has previously approved the use of autonomous commercial drones exclusively under the condition that human observers be present along the flight path — or that risk of collision be mitigated through otherwise hyper-strict limitations.

After tech behemoths like Twitter moved to ban Trump and thousands of other far-right accounts, millions moved to apps like Signal and Telegram for their encrypted messaging services.  There's one rub, though: Telegram, unlike Signal, doesn't have end-to-end encryption by default.  End-to-end encryption means that only the message sender and receiver can read the message.

Hollywood's wild ride through the global pandemic continues. First it was the Warner Bros. decision in late-2020 to shift all of its 2021 theatrical releases over to the HBO Max streaming service. Now, one of the studio's big blockbusters for the year, Godzilla vs. Kong, will be arriving for streaming an unheard-of two months ahead of schedule. The new release date is March 26, 2021. It's not uncommon for Hollywood to shift release dates around even when there isn't a dangerous illness sweeping across the planet.

In-store retail has taken an obvious hit due to the pandemic, and even tech giant Apple isn't immuneApple is closing more than 20 stores in North Carolina, Texas, and Georgia, Bloomberg reports, because of the virus spikes in those areas.   "Due to current COVID-19 conditions in some of the communities we serve, we are temporarily closing stores in these areas," Apple told Bloomberg in a statement.

NASA announced on Thursday that a "mole" on Mars has ended its mission after landing on the Red Planet nearly two years ago. The mole — also called a digger, drill, and probe — was built by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and deployed by NASA's InSight lander. Its purpose was to drill 16 feet into Martian soil to take its temperature andwell, it never managed to do that.  The digger had drilled down merely 14 inches before getting stuck in the first month of its mission.

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