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Screenshot by David Grober/ZDNETThe next time you order DoorDash, you might want to keep an eye on the sky for your food. The company announced today that it has expanded its partnership with Alphabet's Wing to bring drone-delivered food to the United States for the first time. The program launched in Australia in 2022 and has since expanded to three locations in Queensland with more than 60 restaurants. In the year that it's been available, more than 350,000 drone deliveries have been made.Also: DJI shows what a…

A successful liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida as Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft, atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, heads to the International Space Station for the 20th Northrop Grumman resupply mission on January 30, 2024. The spacecraft docked to the space station on February 1, 2024, bringing 8,200 pounds of science investigations, supplies, and equipment for the international crew. Credit: SpaceXA commercial resupply mission to the space station…Preparing to make…

Apple MacBook Pro 14-inch (M3 Max) MSRP $1,999.00 “The MacBook Pro's upgrade to the M3 Max ensures that it remains the best in class.” Pros Space Black is the new king GPU performance gets big upgrade XDR display is even brighter Speakers are fantastic Decent webcam Cons…

Identifying the popular obstacles of data teams in delivering tangible ROICan data leader harvest the fruit of their labour: tangible ROI? (Image by Google Deep Mind — Pexels.com)Return on Investment (ROI) is a profitability metric used to evaluate how well an investment has performed (Investopedia.com).ROI is a simple term, isn’t it? To measure ROI for data, we just need to follow these 3 steps:1.Have a set of KPIs that represent “profitability” of data2. Improve the KPIs through data3. Measure the impact of data’s…

A branch of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is launching a drone delivery scheme across 30 medical facilities in the north of the country. The aim is to cut costs, while improving service to hundreds of thousands of patients.   The Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has been experimenting with autonomous drone deliveries for a while now, in partnership with UK-based Apian. The startup was founded by two former NHS doctors who wanted to make the delivery of critical medical…

Game developers have a problem with this year’s Game Awards.While the awards part of Geoff Keighley’s Game Awards has increasingly become vestigial to the ads, teases, and trailers for games both out and coming soon, this year, that disparity was more keenly felt. “Every year, seems to be becoming more and more a platform for revenue for its production house rather than a celebration of game development,” said Nazih Fares, head of communication and localization at The 4 Winds Entertainment and member of the International…

ATI’s pilots are taking a less antagonistic tone in hopes of bringing Amazon to the negotiating table. “What we don’t want to do is affect our customers,” says Sterling. “We’ve done a lot to protect our obsession with Amazon.” However, he says the intransigence of ATSG’s management has left the pilots with no choice but to call a strike.“This side of Amazon’s network is the most vulnerable to labor strikes,” says Marc Wulfraat, president of logistics consultancy MWPVL. If drivers or warehouse workers strike, the company…

Originally, the Cybertruck was supposed to start under $40,000 to get a wider base of customers, when it was announced in 2019. At the time of the actual launch though, the base variant of the truck starts at $60,990, and won't even be available until 2025…

X Shore has just announced that the company is now delivering its first X Shore 1 vessels to customers, kicking off the new lower-cost electric boat in the company’s lineup. The X Shore 1 was originally unveiled nearly a year ago. We first called the company’s impending launch of a new smaller and lower-cost electric boat after noticing several key details in teaser images. The launch of the X Shore 1 was a major announcement for the company, whose flagship 26-foot Eelex 8000 is an impressive…

A new electric SUV has officially started rolling out. Kia has begun delivering its flagship EV9 electric SUV as it looks to continue expanding its brand in the era of electrification. Kia delivering its new EV9 electric SUV in South Korea After officially revealing its new three-row electric SUV in March, Kia’s new flagship EV9 received high praise for its design and features. Based on the Hyundai Motor Group’s E-GMP platform (the same used for the IONIQ 5 and IONIQ 6), the EV9 is…