Amid announcing one of its biggest iPhone releases of the last few years, Apple dedicated a big part of last month’s Wonderlust product announcement to its supposedly sweeping environmental initiatives. The company even included a cringey featurette…
Lees meerAndroid 14 is already available for Pixel phone owners and is rolling out to other handsets as we speak—and while it doesn’t include a plethora of new features, there are some cool upgrades for your handset that are worth making use of. We’ve picked…
Lees meerSpaceX has reached a deal to launch four Galileo satellites next year in coordination with the European Space Agency, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Two launches on Elon Musk’s Falcon 9 rockets will add to the 28 satellites currently orb…
Lees meerAfter shoving a Threads carousel into Facebook and Instagram, Meta gets that users might not like it. Meta posted Monday on its platform’s official account that it was collecting feedback on the new feature, but it almost certainly won’t do anything…
Lees meerHow can artists hope to fight back against the whims of tech companies wanting to use their work to train AI? One group of researchers has a novel idea: slip a subtle poison into the art itself to kill the AI art generator from the inside out.Read m…
Lees meerThe Moon’s crater-covered countenance was previously thought to be a youthful 4.42 billion years old, give or take about 10 million years. But now, samples of crystals taken from the rocky satellite half a century ago indicate that the Moon is about…
Lees meerThey did it, they really did it. The Freddy Fazbear Pizza band from Five Nights at Freddy’s has been made real, and of course Blumhouse got the Jim Henson Creature Shop to do it.Read more...
Lees meerStranger Things—which premiered in the summer of 2016, and last dropped new episodes on Netflix in July 2022—will end its blockbuster run with a fifth season that’s not coming anytime soon. Over the years, we’ve seen the young cast grow up in real t…
Lees meerThe natural world is filled with dramas that play out on the macro- and microscopic scales, in our cities and in remote wilderness alike. In the British Ecological Society’s annual photo competition, ‘Capturing Ecology,’ those activities take center…
Lees meerThe AMC adaptation of Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire is a rich gothic romance that takes the source material and updates it in ways that are both fascinating and, at time, far more explicit than the books ever were. While gay sex was deftly …
Lees meerRemember Matter? The smart home standard that was supposed to unify all gadgets in the connected home? It’s been updated with support for a bevy of connected devices, mainly home appliances. The update should help more third-party accessories work t…
Lees meerHow can artists hope to fight back against the whims of tech companies wanting to use their work to train AI? One group of researchers has a novel idea: slip a subtle poison into the art itself to kill the AI art generator from the inside out.Read m…
Lees meerGoogle Maps and Waze have disabled live traffic updates for areas of Israel and the Gaza Strip at the request of the Israeli military, according to a Bloomberg report. The live data tool was removed ahead of a potential ground invasion for the safet…
Lees meerWhere do we start with Sam Altman’s Worldcoin? The OpenAI CEO’s startup is building a new cryptocurrency. Worldcoin is also part of Altman’s disquieting plan to capture all of the world’s money with AI and then “redistribute this wealth to the peopl…
Lees meerAbout a month ago, pristine samples from an asteroid landed on Earth while enclosed within a tight capsule. The sample canister was designed to keep the main chunk of the asteroid safe during its journey through space, but now teams at NASA’s Johnso…
Lees meerLoki’s Tom Hiddleston is already aboard as The Life of Chuck’s title character, and Mark Hamill—coming off an excellent turn in Mike Flanagan’s The Fall of the House of Usher—is also a known part of the cast. But Flanagan’s next big-screen project, …
Lees meerA duck’s back is not the only slippery surface water is prone to slide off of. Researchers have developed a new method of coating surfaces in a liquid-like layer to make them extra slick.Read more...
Lees meerThe era of a common over-the-counter cold medicine is coming to an end. Major retail chain CVS said this month that it will be pulling some cold and cough products made with oral phenylephrine from its shelves. The Food and Drug Administration may s…
Lees meerMy latest book, The Hard Switch, is about the crew of a small cargo ship, comprising Ada, Haika, and Mallic (an extractor, pilot, and engineer, respectively), and as I was thinking about this central trio, I started musing on “crews” in general. Wha…
Lees meerSure, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom has been delayed multiple times, but that just means the DC Movie Machine has had more time to prime the media on what to expect from the second installment in the Jason Momoa-led franchise. Today’s fanservice char…
Lees meerTemperatures are currently cooling down across the U.S., but much of the country is in for a warmer, wetter winter than usual, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in this year’s winter outlook.Read more...
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