One of Twitch’s most popular streamers said Friday that he was joining a rival streaming platform, Kick, in a blow to the Amazon-owned site and… Read More »Twitch Star xQc signs $100 million deal with rival platform Kick
If homo sapiens, we often consider ourselves to be the most intelligent humanoids. But that doesn’t mean our species was the first to discover everything;… Read More »Neanderthal adhesives were made through a complex synthesis process
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Six of the 18 reusable space shuttle engines NASA has in storage. Each is used once by the SLS missile and then discarded. NASA Last… Read More »Oddly enough, a NASA official says that fixed-price contracts “do no good” to the agency
Lip reading is hardly an exact science. Renowned as an expert lip reader in cases of sexual assault, insurance fraud and other serious cases, 49-year-old… Read More »Lip readers decode celebrity conversations on TikTok
From TikTok to Huawei routers to DJI drones, rising tensions between China and the US have made Americans – and the US government – increasingly… Read More »The US Navy, NATO and NASA use the encryption chips of a shady Chinese company
Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, plans to lower the recommended age for using its Quest headset from 13 to 10, the company said… Read More »Meta to lower age for Quest VR headset users to 10 from 13
Enlarge / Throwboy’s new monochrome throw features a Mac desktop screenshot knitted into the blanket itself. Throwboy Vintage technology is part of our shared cultural… Read More »Retro MacOS desktop blanket trades pixels for wire, and it looks Mac-nificant
Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’ Apple | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon | Google Moderators on Reddit have closed their forums in protest of a… Read More »Reddit Revolts, MrBeast’s YouTube Empire and Peak Trust and Safety?
Enlarge / Vials of COVID-19 vaccine labels with logos of pharmaceutical company Pfizer and German biotechnology company BioNTech. A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee… Read More »Our fall COVID boosters will likely be a monovalent XBB formula
A Russian ransomware group accessed data from federal agencies, including the Department of Energy, in an attack that exploited file transfer software to steal and… Read More »US agencies broke into cyber attack by Russian Ransomware Group
Enlarge / Scholar: The 15th century ‘Heege Manuscript’ could be a rare written record of a live minstrel performance. YouTube/University of Cambridge One of many… Read More »This 15th-century manuscript mentions a Monty Python-like murder rabbit
Federal prosecutors investigating the collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange said late Wednesday that they would drop, at least for now, several charges against the… Read More »The US drops new charges in the Sam Bankman-Fried case
Enlarge / Formula 1 battery technology and light, compact yet powerful electric motors would power the Mercedes-Benz Vision One-Eleven. Jonathan Gitlin CARLSBAD, CALIF. – In… Read More »Mercedes-Benz demonstrates EV motor with axial flux in concept car One-Eleven
Quantum computers today are small in computational size – the chip in your smartphone contains billions of transistors, while the most powerful quantum computer contains… Read More »Quantum Computing Advance Begins a New Era, Says IBM
