Digital Trends - 12 May 2021 01:09

An unreleased engineering sample of Intel's 12th Gen Alder Lake processor impressively achieved nearly 550 frames per second on Dota 2.
Gizmodo - 12 May 2021 00:02

Did you know that former edgelord president Donald J. Trump is now an edgelord blogger? Most people do not, evidently. Operation: Blog, aka "From the Desk of Donald J. Trump," launched last Tuesday. In the meantime, Trum...
SPACE.com - 12 May 2021 23:18

SpaceX books a mission to the moon funded entirely by Dogecoin just days after SpaceX founder Elon Musk joked on Saturday Night Live about his role in spreading memes about the cryptocurrency.
Phys.org - 12 May 2021 09:13

Can you feel the heat? To a thermal camera, which measures infrared radiation, the heat that we can feel is visible, like the heat of a traveler in an airport with a fever or the cold of a leaky window or door in the win...
Slash Gear - 12 May 2021 04:14

Windows 10’s first major feature update of the year is already being prepared for rollout but it seems that the HoloLens 2 is getting dibs on its own major update before PCs. In fact, this update might be even more fea...
Digital Trends - 12 May 2021 03:48

Microsoft 365 users globally are having issues with Outlook that are causing email text to vanish. The firm is now working on a fix that will be available soon.
Digital Trends - 12 May 2021 03:00

Watch the James Webb Space Telescope open its beautiful main mirror one last time before it embarks on its highly anticipated mission.
Gizmodo - 12 May 2021 02:46

A ransomware gang, Babuk Locker, has been attempting to extort the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington D.C. for $4 million, but negotiations between the cops and the criminals recently collapsed, leaked document...

In the seemingly never-ending cascade of news headlines about hacks, data breaches and ransomware attacks like the one from this weekend executed by a Russian criminal gang against a major US fuel pipeline, the bad guys ...
Android Central - 12 May 2021 00:41

Google could introduce a new trigger for the Assistant. What you need to know Code in the Google app suggests that a new Google Assistant trigger could soon be introduced. The setting would let users trigger Google Assis...

More often than not, we know everything that there is to know about any new device long before it actually launches. Not every leak comes true, but secrets are virtually impossible to keep nowadays, and that's true for e...
Motherboard - 12 May 2021 15:00

Voyager 1 has likely made the first continuous measurement of the density of matter in interstellar space.
Motherboard - 12 May 2021 15:00

Decades before 'Zoom fatigue' broke our spirits, the so-called computer revolution brought with it a world of pain previously unknown to humankind.
Phys.org - 12 May 2021 14:14

On April 9, 2021, NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft took one last look at Bennu, the asteroid from which it scooped up a sample last Oct...
Phys.org - 12 May 2021 14:14

NASA's newest Mars rover is beginning to study the floor of an ancient crater that once held a lake.
Android Central - 12 May 2021 13:16

The Department of Defense had designated Xiaomi as a "Communist Chinese military company" in January. What you need to know The U.S. has decided not to blacklist Xiaomi. The move, which was proposed by the Trump administ...
Slash Gear - 12 May 2021 13:16

Currently, rovers that are exploring the surface of Mars are often powered by solar energy. Some rely on other sources of energy, but solar is common. The challenge is that solar panels can get covered by dust that proli...
Gizmodo - 12 May 2021 13:00

The UK's conservative government will ban technology companies from "discriminating" against particular political viewpoints, according to a press release about the country's new proposed Online Safety Bill. The anti-cen...
Live Science - 12 May 2021 13:00

Cats like boxes so much, they will even climb into the illusion of a box, scientists find.

Many people expected the new iPad Pro to feature a variation of the A14 Bionic chip in the iPhone 12 series. Apple would use an A14X processor in typical fashion with the A-series chip nomenclature for the iPad Pro, but ...
Slash Gear - 12 May 2021 12:02

Engineers at Columbia University have created a tiny, wireless, and injectable chip used to monitor body processes powered by ultrasound. The device is said to be the smallest single-chip system that is a complete functi...
AppleInsider - 12 May 2021 12:00

Apple lawyers are continuing to press for dismissal of an App Store lawsuit regarding the Coronavirus Reporter app, claiming the developer is "cobbling together" allegations. App Store Apple has previously asked for a la...