A team of scientists looking at a faraway galaxy using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have detected that galaxy’s magnetic field, making it the most distant galactic magnetic field yet detected.Read more...
Lees meerIndia’s Chandrayaan-3 lander was spotted on the Moon just a few days after touching down on its cratered surface near the lunar south pole.Read more...
Lees meerApple is trying to give those who purchase the $3,500 Vision Pro headset as much bang for their buck as possible, even if that means dragging all the apps from its other app ecosystems over to its first mixed reality headset. The company said on Tue…
Lees meerYesterday two men were charged for the August 1st Gen Con theft where nearly $300,000 worth of product was stolen from Pastimes, during vendor load in before the convention occurred. Andrew “Pearson” Giuame and Thomas “TJ” Dunbar were officially cha…
Lees meerThe UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is investigating a technical issue that caused hundreds of flight delays and cancellations on August 28, marking the nation’s worst air traffic outage in a decade. And now we have more details about what went wr…
Lees meerSpotify giveth and taketh away: If you want to sing along to your favorite tunes, you’d better fork over $10.99 every month. The music streaming platform has revealed that it is testing a scheme to make lyrics a feature only available to Premium use…
Lees meerThe European Union is now coming out and saying what they, and everybody else, already knows. The six big tech companies, including Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft, are the six big “gatekeepers” of our modern online …
Lees meerIn March 2022, Meta removed a pair of posts on Facebook and Instagram criticizing a proposed South Carolina bill that would have horrifyingly applied homicide penalties to abortion seekers. One of the users, a supporter of abortion access, voiced th…
Lees meerBad news: your car is a spy. If your vehicle was made in the last few years, you’re probably driving around in a data-harvesting machine that may collect personal information as sensitive as your race, weight, and sexual activity. Volkswagen’s cars …
Lees meerIt’s nearly time to return to Star Wars’ galaxy far, far away for the week, with Ahsoka’s fourth episode dropping tonight on Disney+. But while we wait to talk all things spoiler, here’s another new clip from the show to get you in the mood.Read mor…
Lees meerA lawsuit accuses the company formerly known as Twitter (now renamed X by Elon Musk) of helping the government of Saudi Arabia to spy on and violate the human rights of Saudi political dissidents. The legal complaint, which was originally filed in …
Lees meerProsecutors in Georgia have filed racketeering charges against several dozen people after a state investigation into ongoing local protests against a proposed police training facility that protestors have named “Cop City,” the Associated Press repor…
Lees meerFollowing numerous delays and technical hiccups, the Ariane 6 rocket is undergoing a series of tests that could finally determine a launch period for the heavy-lift launch vehicle at some point next year.Read more...
Lees meerAfter last week’s Dungeons & Dragons-themed picket I can really feel the solidarity on this blog tonight. Now, in the spirit of industry solidarity, we’re doing something a little different, but for the better. This week is our first showcasing Actu…
Lees meerMicrosoft is deprecating its WordPad software from Windows, leading to the end of a decades-old staple, the company announced on Friday. WordPad will no longer be available on future versions of Windows and Microsoft says it will no longer update ex…
Lees meerPhotographers from around the world recently submitted 20,000-odd images of bird species to the Bird Photographer of the Year contest. The showcase captures the diversity of the class Aves, as well as the dramatically different habitats the animals …
Lees meerApple may be thinking up ways to offer laptops that are cheaper and more pared down than its existing MacBook Air line. As reported by DigiTimes (via MacRumors), industry sources are speculating Apple could be working on a lower-cost version of its …
Lees meerEdited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr., Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology features an introduction by acclaimed horror author Stephen Graham Jones and unsettling tales by a wide range of Indigenous authors. io9 …
Lees meerLess than one month after enduring public backlash over confusion about how it trains its artificial intelligence tools, Zoom says it’s prepared to plow forward with a ChatGPT-style chatbot to embed in its videoconferences and accompanying chats. Zo…
Lees meerApple has officially declared it’s iPhone time. We’ve been preparing behind the scenes to bring you up-to-date coverage of what’s next. But we won’t see anything crop up until at least 10:00 A.M. PT / 1:00 P.M. ET. on Sept. 12, 2023, when Apple’s Wa…
Lees meerPlenty of men worldwide are carrying the human papillomavirus, or HPV, research out this week has found. The study estimates that about one in three men currently have at least one strain of genital HPV, while one in five have a strain known to incr…
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