On March 22nd both William Shatner and Captain James Tiberius Kirk celebrate their birthday—so to mark the occasion we look back at 10 classic episodes of Star Trek that all speak to different facets of the iconic Captain of the starship Enterprise. | Continue reading
Researchers at NIST analyzed cloth face masks using a scanning electron microscope. The results are out of this world. | Continue reading
The future of grocery shopping is a little over the top. | Continue reading
Modern warehouses are a hive of frenetic activity as robots and humans move boxes around as quickly as possible. To shave a few precious seconds off a delivery, researchers in Germany have developed a high-speed robotic drone that unloads packages by deliberately crashing into a … | Continue reading
This tire will never to be inflated or spring a leak, and will probably survive a lot longer than the bike itself. | Continue reading
A document obtained by the office of Sen. Ron Wyden shows Ulysses claims to be able to “remotely geolocate” cars in “nearly any country,” with the exceptions of Cuba and North Korea. | Continue reading
In a statement released today, Circut promised existing users unlimited lifetime use of their machines. The policy extends to anyone else who decides to buy one of the machines throughout 2021. | Continue reading
SoloKey 2 is an affordable alternative to expensive security keys. | Continue reading
Why not? | Continue reading
Users are, unsurprisingly, very unhappy. | Continue reading
Banning deceptive advertising tactics is another step towards ensuring that consumers are protected under the CCPA. | Continue reading
Weighing 2.9 tons and traveling 4.8 miles per second, this heap of old batteries is now the heaviest single piece of garbage to be jettisoned from the International Space Station. | Continue reading
At least 10 different hacker groups are targeting Microsoft Exchange servers, which seems bad. | Continue reading
The company is undergoing a “reorganization” to get rid of its debt, but current Shadow subscribers can still use the service. | Continue reading
Heads up, fellow T-Mobile customers: You might want to take a look at your mobile carrier’s privacy policy. It now explains that you'll be automatically enrolled in data collection for targeted ads—unless you opt out. | Continue reading
Looking like opened pea pods with a lustrous sheen, the sea slugs Elysia cf. marginata and Elysia atroviridis aren’t your average gastropods. First off, they’re members of sacoglossa, a clade of slugs known for taking the algae from marine plants and integrating the chloroplasts … | Continue reading
Road closure notifications continuously played on loop like some sort of post-apocalyptical movie scene. | Continue reading
In the latest in a string of “hits” on Russian dark web forums, the prominent crime site Maza appears to have been breached by a hacker earlier this week. | Continue reading
Bad news, Spotify users. | Continue reading
Etsy, eBay, and Amazon sellers are turning a profit on products that claim to protect you from 5G. | Continue reading
Apple has always pushed its hardware as tools for creative types—not toys for gamers—but that hasn’t stopped creative developers from turning Macs into unique gaming machines, like putting Lemmings on the Touch Bar, and now putting an icon-sized playable version of Pong in the do … | Continue reading
Some former moderators of memestock trading floor WallStreetBets intend to start a competing community which will act like a “decentralized hedge fund.” What could go wrong. | Continue reading
“They’re going to go through some stages until they come out on the other side.” | Continue reading
It's not about processing speed, but reliability. | Continue reading
The SolarWinds drama just won’t stop. It’s a tale of Russian hackers—and potentially Chinese hackers—alleged email spying, and a gaping hole of security vulnerabilities that seems to get worse as more details come to light. Now, we can add yet another twist to the story: the laug … | Continue reading
It’s hard to feel connected to someone who’s gone through a static photo. So a company called MyHeritage who provides automatic AI-powered photo enhancements is now offering a new service that can animate people in old photos creating a short video that looks like it was recorded … | Continue reading
Oh, sure. This will definitely work as planned. | Continue reading
Apple has bought out just short of 100 small businesses over the last six years as part of its corporate acquisition spree, CEO Tim Cook told shareholders at a virtual meeting on Tuesday. | Continue reading
Prehistoric teeth found over 100 years ago are some of the best evidence yet for hybridized communities of Neanderthals and modern humans. | Continue reading
Gina Carano, who plays Cara Dune on Disney+ Star Wars series The Mandalorian, will no longer be on the show. A Lucasfilm spokesperson told io9 she "not currently employed by" them. | Continue reading
Good morning my old nemesis, the ghost of the TikTok ban past. | Continue reading
It sounds like Apple's smallest iPhone isn't a big seller. | Continue reading
Timothy Wilks, a 20-year-old YouTuber, was shot and killed in Nashville on Friday night while trying to film a robbery “prank” video. Wilks and at least one friend reportedly approached a group of people in the parking lot of Urban Air, a trampoline business, while holding butche … | Continue reading
When Oregon was granted statehood in 1859, it was the only state in the Union admitted with a constitution that forbade black people from living, working, or owning property there. It was illegal for black people even to move to the state until 1926. Oregon’s founding is part of … | Continue reading
Enabling Apple’s “Limit Adult Websites” filter in the iOS Screen Time setting will block users from seeing any Google search results for “Asian” in any browser on their iPhone. That’s not great, folks. | Continue reading
Every year sees a number of new ransomware gangs emerge and take a swing at becoming the most prolific operators in the digital underworld. Well, 2021 officially has its first new high-profile ransomware operation and they are definitely assholes. | Continue reading
The ultimate goal to making virtual reality feel more like reality is letting users physically touch non-existent objects in a VR world. Until we figure out the technology behind Star Trek’s Holodecks, researchers from the University of Tokyo are experimenting with steerable heli … | Continue reading
3D-printed homes may not seem like such a far-off idea now this 3-bedroom, 2-bath home in upstate New York has been listed for sale on Zillow. | Continue reading
The tool allows viewers to set the timer for 15, 30, or 45 minutes, or just “finish the show.” | Continue reading
In the 1950s, when physicists were racing to invent the first laser, they found that the rules of quantum mechanics restricted how pure the color of their light could be. Since then, physicists and engineers have always built lasers with those restrictions in mind. But new theore … | Continue reading
Researchers have found a minuscule chameleon in Northern Madagascar, which they believe to be the smallest reptile on the planet. Small body, big attitude—just look at that face. | Continue reading
Google removed at least 100,000 negative reviews of the stock trading app Robinhood from the Google Play app store after angry users sent a flood of critical reviews that caused the app’s rating to plummet on Thursday. The app’s rating went from roughly four stars out of five on … | Continue reading
The two wealthiest men in the world—Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos—are bickering about their competing satellite internet projects, in an argument prompted by SpaceX’s recent request to move some Starlink satellites to a lower orbit. | Continue reading
On Monday, Google released a few more details on its proposed tracking alternative to third-party cookies, a “privacy-first” technology that, from any angle, seems like just another way for the company to maintain its stranglehold on digital ad sales. | Continue reading
The Raspberry Pi is one of the smallest and cheapest mini computers you can buy. It has an HDMI port, USB ports, and runs Ubuntu or other open-source operating systems like a champ. The new Raspberry Pi Pico, on the other hand, is like the CPU of a more complex machine. By itself … | Continue reading
NASA’s Mobile Launcher Platform-2—a structure involved in the Apollo and Space Shuttle missions—is in the process of being torn down. | Continue reading
The future of cancer treatment might involve personalized vaccines meant to manage or even prevent relapses—at least if new research published Thursday continues to pan out. | Continue reading
Some of you all may be familiar with the crime ring of long-tailed macaque monkeys that reside around the Uluwatu Temple in Bali, Indonesia, who were thrust into infamy a few years ago for stealing from tourists and holding the ransom until they were paid in food. As if that visu … | Continue reading