The Morning After: Movement towards Mars.

It's Friday, September 29, 2017. Hey, good morning! More Mars colony announcements, blood-sugar monitors that don’t need to break the surface of your skin and a GoPro that truly delivers high-quality video. The future is here this Friday morning.   Earth-to-Earth trips on BFR. SpaceX’s next rocket could take you to Mars, or London At a speech in Australia, Elon Musk provided details about SpaceX’s next rocket, the BFR (yes, you’re right, that is what it stands for). Capable of carrying 150 tons and refueling in space, it’s the key factor in Musk’s plans for human outposts throughout the solar system. Even if you don’t take a ride on its first manned Mars trip in 2024, there’s one more reason to pay attention: SpaceX plans to use these rockets for trips around Earth, carrying passengers to any city on the planet in under an hour.    The schedule is set.   SpaceX unveils Mars city plan, will fly two cargo missions by 2022   Of course, the BFR is also designed for interplanetary travel, and Musk explained his idea to build a self-sustaining city on Mars. The plan starts with two uncrewed missions filled with supplies in 2022, followed by four more rockets -- two with people aboard -- in 2024 to start building out the settlement that will become Mars City.    Finally. FDA OKs a blood-sugar monitor that doesn’t need fingerpricks   The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first continuous glucose-monitoring system for adults that doesn’t require drawing blood several times a day. Instead, the FreeStyle Libre Flash Glucose Monitoring System works by inserting a sensor wire under the skin, for up to ten days. After 12 hours, the patch is ready for the wearer to monitor blood-sugar levels by passing a mobile reader over it.   That’s a tall order.   FCC Chairman Ajit Pai insists Apple should enable FM radio chips in its iPhones   There’s just one problem: According to Apple, the iPhone 7 and 8 don’t have FM radio chips or antennas.   Facial recognition is the next frontier for the action-cam company.   The Hero 6 and GP1 are GoPro’s chance to grow again   “We’ve finally been able to make a GoPro without compromises. We haven’t had to work around somebody else’s chip design and chip limitations,” Nick Woodman, GoPro founder and CEO said. The “somebody else” in that sentence refers to Ambarella, the company that made the processor for almost every GoPro up to this point -- and the processor for most other action/drone cameras on sale right now, for that matter. Woodman is enthused about GP1 for a number of reasons, but key is that GoPro is no longer sharing technology with its rivals. James Trew talks more with the founder and explains all about GoPro’s newest camera. Giddy up.   ‘Red Dead Redemption 2’ trailer introduces a new anti-hero   Howdy there, moody protagonist.   Echo? Echo!    Amazon’s confusing new Echo lineup: There’s a method to the madness   Amazon’s overstuffed Echo event made one thing clear: It’s not afraid of doubling down on smart speakers. The company announced a smaller $100 Echo (just as we reported in July); a $150 Echo Plus with smart hub features; and an Echo-powered alarm clock called Spot. And that’s not even including the truly strange stuff: Echo Connect, which turns your Echo devices into speakerphones for landlines. Now, a wider variety of Echo devices is a good problem for Amazon. It may get tougher for consumers to figure out what they need, but it also gives the company more ways to fit Alexa into their lives.   But wait, there's more... 1. Anker crammed a projector into a soda-can-sized smart speaker 2. Twitter finds links to hundreds of Russian-backed bot accounts 3. Yes, Mario was punching Yoshi in the head 4. Changing your race in virtual reality 5. ACLU challenges DOJ request for info on 6,000 anti-Trump Facebook users The Morning After is a new daily newsletter from Engadget designed to help you fight off FOMO. Who knows what you'll miss if you don't subscribe. Craving even more? Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. Have a suggestion on how we can improve The Morning After? Send us a note. Copyright © 2016 Aol Inc. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: AOL 770 Broadway #4 New York, NY 10003 You are receiving this email because you opted in at engadget.com. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe from this newsletter.

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When Quantum Computers Come, They May Speak Microsoft
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Sony's Foolish Failure to Learn From Microsoft's Mistake
(Posted 25-Sep-17)
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Companies Cheer Completion of Open-Design Transatlantic Internet Cable
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New Cloud Tools Aim to Streamline, Monetize Partner Relationships
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Einstein Tries Sales Forecasting
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SQL Server 2017 Embraces Linux, Docker
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Editor's Pick: Sony's Foolish Failure to Learn From Microsoft's Mistake

Sony's Foolish Failure to Learn From Microsoft's Mistake

Rob Enderle Sep 25, 2017 10:46 AM PT

Microsoft has learned a lot of very hard lessons over the last couple of decades, and it continues to surprise and annoy me that other firms seem to have the suicidal tendency to learn the same lessons the hard way. It is far better and cheaper to avoid the mistakes of others, but firms like Apple, Google and, most recently, Sony seem to want to experience past Microsoft disasters first hand. [More...]

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Cloud Partner Program Aims to Replace ERP Brightpearl, which offers a cloud-based retail management system for mid-sized retailers and wholesalers, on Wednesday launched a new Enterprise Partner Program. The company aims to build out its partner ecosystem to deploy an end-to-end management service for omnichannel retailers as an alternative to traditional enterprise resource planning systems. [More...]

Nimble's Social CRM Finds Its Way Into Office 365 Social sales and marketing software provider Nimble and cloud services consultant NeoCloud have partnered to deliver a simple, affordable contact management and CRM package for Microsoft Office 365. NeoCloud has agreed to bundle Nimble CRM into all of its Office 365 deployments, beginning this month. Nimble CRM adds employees' individual connections to a shared team relationship manager. [More...]

Red Hat Enlarges Its Open Source Patent Promise Umbrella Red Hat on Thursday announced major enhancements to the Patent Promise it first published 15 years ago, with the intention of providing new protections to innovation in the open source community. In its 2002 Patent Promise, Red Hat vowed not to pursue patent infringement actions against parties that used its covered Free and Open Source Software, or FOSS, subject to certain limitations. [More...]

Linux: Come for the Kernel, Stay for the Popcorn Linux offers so much for users to sink their teeth into that even among desktop and more casual users, it's easy to get caught up in the tradecraft. It's only too tempting to put your system's technical capabilities to the test by trying out a new program or practicing a new command. As with any other interest, though, Linux is not much fun unless you can revel in it with fellow fans. [More...]

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Sony's Foolish Failure to Learn From Microsoft's Mistake
Microsoft has learned a lot of very hard lessons over the last couple of
decades, and it continues to surprise and annoy me that other firms seem
to have the suicidal tendency to learn the same lessons the hard way. It
is far better and cheaper to avoid the mistakes of others, but firms
like Apple, Google and, most recently, Sony seem to want to experience
past Microsoft disasters first hand.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84824.html

Companies Cheer Completion of Open-Design Transatlantic Internet Cable
Microsoft on Friday announced completion of the Marea undersea cable,
which stretches 4,400 miles between Virginia Beach, Virginia, and
Bilbao, Spain. A joint project of Microsoft, Facebook and global
telecommunication infrastructure company Telxius, the cable lies more
than 17,000 feet below the ocean's surface. It is the first cable to
link Virginia and Spain.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84831.html

Ford Motor Puts Design Strategy Under the HoloLens
Ford Motor Company on Thursday unveiled details about its use of
Microsoft's HoloLens augmented reality technology in the automotive
design process. Ford's design teams have swapped out their clay-
sculpting tools -- a staple of the automotive world since the 1930s,
when Harley Earl introduced them at General Motors -- for mixed reality
headsets and visualization software.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84829.html

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