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The United Launch Alliance (ULA) has been chosen to launch the lunar lander of one of the companies chosen by NASA for its commercial lunar payload program. ULA will deliver Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander to the Moon in 2021, the companies announced today. Peregrine will fly aboard ULA’s Vulcan Centaur rocket, taking off from Space Launch…

via ULA tapped to launch Astrobotic’s lunar lander to the Moon in 2021 — TechCrunch

At an event in Beijing last week, Chinese scooter company Segway-Ninebot Group unveiled a trio of new products. The most compelling of the bunch was no doubt the KickScooter T60, which harnesses AI to drive itself back to the charging station. The company says it will start piloting the products next quarter, with a timeline…

via Segway-Ninebot’s new scooter drives to its docking station for a recharge — TechCrunch

The former Jedi Master might rise once more to take his place among a growing Star Wars streaming universe

via Ewan McGregor is reportedly returning as Obi-Wan Kenobi for Disney+ series — Geekfinity

Millions of people communicate using sign language, but so far projects to capture its complex gestures and translate them to verbal speech have had limited success. A new advance in real-time hand tracking from Google’s AI labs, however, could be the breakthrough some have been waiting for. The new technique uses a few clever shortcuts…

via This hand-tracking algorithm could lead to sign language recognition — TechCrunch

BERLIN (AP) — Germany, Europe’s industrial powerhouse and biggest economy, with companies like Volkswagen, Siemens and BASF, may be entering a recession, according to a gloomy report from the country’s central bank Monday — a development that could have repercussions for the rest of the eurozone and the United States. A technical recession is defined…

via Wide Implications as Germany Teeters Toward Recession — TIME

You might not have realized this, but Brian Tyler has been heavily involved in the Fast & Furious franchise for quite some time. His current scoring credits for the franchise include: The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift; Fast & Furious; Fast Five; Furious 7; and The Fate of the Furious. Tyler’s impressive composition abilities […]

via Brian Tyler scoring Furious 7 (2015) — Film Music Central

You might not have realized this, but Brian Tyler has been heavily involved in the Fast & Furious franchise for quite some time. His current scoring credits for the franchise include: The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift; Fast & Furious; Fast Five; Furious 7; and The Fate of the Furious. Tyler’s impressive composition abilities […]

via Brian Tyler scoring Furious 7 (2015) — Film Music Central

Tesla is pitching customers on a new rental offering for solar power as a way to revive the flagging fortunes of its renewable energy business. Once among the largest installers of renewables in the country through SolarCity, Tesla has seen its share of the market decline significantly since its acquisition of SolarCity three years ago.…

via Tesla pitches a solar rental program to boost its renewable energy business — TechCrunch