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Apparently the Pentagon Is Thinking of Giving Jetpacks a Try Photo: Valery Hache/AFP (Getty Images) If you need further proof that we are living in a literal science fiction movie right now, look no further than the fact that the U.S. Defense Department is thinking about strapping jetpacks onto its special forces cadres. Well, actually the term they are using is “portable personal air mobility system,” but you get the picture. Advertisement The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Pentagon’s R&D hub for new military technologies, recently opened a bid for research pr...

Google now lets developers make their own Wear OS Tiles Mar 12, 2021 22:18 EST with 3 comments Google has announced the alpha release of the Jetpack Tiles library which allows third-party developers to create custom Tiles on Wear OS smartwatches. Since 2019 when Tiles were brought to Wear OS, users have had to make do with just six tiles but this will soon change. While developers can now get to work on their own custom Tiles, users will have to wait for a platform update to Wear OS which Google plans to release later in the spring. Once developers get to work on t...

Google's Android Jetpack Compose is now in beta Feb 24, 2021 12:00 EST with 0 comments Today, Google announced that its Jetpack Compose framework is now available in beta. Up until now, developers have been able to test it out in alpha via the canary version of Android Studio. Jetpack Compose is a new toolkit for building out your UI. In fact, there's already plenty of documentation for it. It's something that developers have been testing out for a while, so one of the key things changing in beta is that APIs aren't going to change between now and when it goes into...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has landed in Jezero Crater, beginning a new era of exploration on the red planet.

Sturgis Journal Over the past few years, and especially since March 2020, St. Joseph County residents have depended on the Internet not only to connect with the world, but to work and for their students to pursue education through online learning. However, many residents feel frustrated by their internet service or, for some, the lack thereof. In St. Joseph County, according to the Broadband Access Map website, many areas are lacking in reliable broadband — high-speed — internet service. Internet availability by school district In St. Joseph County, according to the Broadband Access Map ...