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Saturday April 17, 2021. 09:34 PM
'Two satellites from the fast-growing constellations of OneWeb and SpaceX's Starlink dodged a dangerously close approach with one another in orbit,' reports The Verge, citing representatives from both OneWeb and the U.S. Space Force. On March 30th, five days after OneWeb...
'Sydney university student Pablo Bonilla, 21, had his first academic paper published overnight and it might just change the shape of computing forever,' writes Australia's national public broadcaster ABC: As a second-year physics student at the University of Sydney, Mr...
Google's Android team supports Rust for developing the Android operating system. Now they're also helping evaluate Rust for Linux kernel development. Their hopes, among other things, are that 'New code written in Rust has a reduced risk of memory safety bugs, data races and...
A U.S. advocacy group called The Repair Association is urging Americans to demand protections for their right to repair from the country's consumer protection agency. 'Tell the FTC: People just want to fix their stuff!' argues a page urging concerned U.S. citizens to sign an ...
EW reports: Felix Silla's friend and former Buck Rogers in the 25th Century costar Gil Gerard reported on Twitter that Silla died Friday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Coming in at just under 4 feet tall and only 70 pounds, Silla was the perfect choice for the...
Plus: 'First civil lawsuit' against police for incorrect facial recognition match in wrongful collaring, and more In brief Bystanders in New York City were stunned this week when cops left a public housing complex with a handcuffed man and a robot law enforcement dog...
America's top law enforcement agency 'obtained a court order that allowed it to remove a backdoor program from hundreds of private Microsoft Exchange servers that were hacked through zero-day vulnerabilities earlier this year,' reports CSO. (Thanks to detritus. (Slashdot...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from IGN: In its first five months on the market, The PlayStation 5 has become the fastest-selling console in U.S. history in both unit and dollar sales. As revealed by The NPD Group's Mat Piscatella, this news arrives one month after the...
From backup controllers to full-on sound systems, here are our favorite complements to your PS5.
Plus: Russian sanctions, Europe’s SolarWinds fallout, and more of this week’s top security news.
The committee's coming decision on banning Donald Trump from the platform is meaningless. Its existence only gets in the way of actually fixing Facebook.
A number of streaming services offer 'high-quality' options, from Amazon Music to Spotify's upcoming tier. Here's how to demystify them.
More than a year into the pandemic, scientists and environmentalists have the first data on where disposable gloves and masks are turning up in ecosystems.
It’s a laid-back, put-your-feet-up kind of weekend. These discounts might help get your zen on.
On Thursday, a federal jury in Seattle, Washington, found that former IBM sales manager Scott Kingston had been unlawfully fired by the company and denied sales commission after challenging the treatment of subordinates as racially biased. And it awarded him $11.1 million....
Reinventing web advertising tech at a time of heightened privacy concern proves difficult Analysis With Google testing its FLoC ad technology in preparation for the planned elimination of third-party cookies next year, uncertainty about potential problems and growing legal...
Aflorithmic, an AI-driven audio cloning startup, has created a digital version of Albert Einstein using AI voice cloning technology drawing on audio records of the famous scientist's actual voice. TechCrunch reports: Alforithmic says the 'digital Einstein' is intended as a...
If you want an easy-to-use VPN with middle-of-the-road everything, ExpressVPN might be for you. We did notice one concerning issue, but otherwise, it's a fine VPN service. Just fine.
Dogecoin has seen its price rise by a factor of five over the last week. Yesterday, it was trading at $0.13. Today, it's one of the world's 10 most valuable cryptocurrencies, with a market capitalization of $45 billion. Ars Technica's Timothy B. Lee writes: Dogecoin's price...
AmiMoJo shares a report from The Guardian: The whitest-ever paint has been produced by academic researchers, with the aim of boosting the cooling of buildings and tackling the climate crisis. The new paint reflects 98% of sunlight as well as radiating infrared heat through...
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