Just one in 5 Googlers plan to swerve the office permanently after COVID-19
Free breakfast, lunch and dinner? Listening to Ryan Reynolds talk shit? Massages for gratis? Why the hell wouldn t they return
Paul Kunert Thu 6 May 2021 // 15:15 UTC Share
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One in five Googlers will be permanently working from home once the pandemic abates but for the majority it seems free meals in staff canteens, guest celebrity speaker appearances, resident gyms and massage therapy are irresistible lures.
A pre-Christmas directive from the Chocolate Factory was for the majority of employees to work from home until September, with a hybrid model being tested that involves a mix of office-based and remote working.
Blue Origin, Dynetics cry foul
Katyanna Quach Tue 4 May 2021 // 02:38 UTC Share
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NASA’s $2.89bn contract awarded to SpaceX for its Starship rocket to send the first American woman and next man to the Moon has been put on ice after SpaceX’s competitors complained to the US Government Accountability Office.
“On April 26, NASA was notified that Blue Origin Federation and Dynetics filed protests challenging the Option A human landing system selection with the US Government Accountability Office (GAO),” a spokesperson from the US space agency confirmed to
The Register in a statement on Monday.
“Pursuant to the GAO protests, NASA instructed SpaceX that progress on the HLS Option A contract has been suspended until GAO resolves all outstanding litigation related to this procurement.
The race to keep up with AWSs and Microsoft of this world.
Chris Mellor Tue 4 May 2021 // 15:00 UTC Share
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HPE is trying to up its Greenlake public cloud-like game by launching a storage-as-a-service (SaaS) platform with data service software abstraction layers operating on new Alletra storage arrays.
The set-up has a Data Service Cloud Console (DSCC) that has API access to the Alletra arrays so they can be managed in the same way as a customer would look after AWS or Azure storage. This cannot be done with HPE s existing storage kit available via GreenLake, which are managed by storage admin staff directly.
Plus: Anti-Chocolate Factory campaign says it ll collect all the class-action damages, thank you
Gareth Corfield Fri 30 Apr 2021 // 15:55 UTC Share
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A barrister for the Information Commissioner s Office hinted the regulator would stop enforcing the law on data breaches if the Supreme Court sides with Google in a case about class-action lawsuits.
The startling threat was made on behalf of the ICO by barrister Gerry Facenna QC, who was intervening on the authority s behalf in the Lloyd v Google data protection case. If a large number of data subjects have had their data lost, then they have
per se suffered damage: harm of the type that I described, namely loss of control of their data, Facenna told judges in the UK s highest court. That is the commissioner s view of these provisions, that s the basis on which she takes regulatory action at the moment. If the word damage in this regime does not include mere loss of control, it would have to be t
Ingenuity s third flight goes further, faster, as Perseverance snaps pics n vid of copter zipping past
Laura Dobberstein Mon 26 Apr 2021 // 08:01 UTC Share
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VIDEO NASA s Ingenuity Mars helicopter has flown flying faster and further than ever before - even when it was on Earth - and we even have video of Sunday s 80-second flight because the Perseverance Rover’s Mastcam-Z had its eye on the drone s third flight.
The video showed the helicopter lift vertically to an altitude of five metres, cruise horizontally for 50m until it disappeared off screen, before reappearing and landed back where it started. The drone reached speeds of two metres per second, a brisk walking pace.