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Amazon Prime Day 2021: The best space deals to watch
SPACE.com - 22 Jun 2021 15:58
Amazon.com's annual Amazon Prime Day megasale began on Monday, June 21, and will end today (June 22), taking with it the great space deals we've found so far.
Mars helicopter Ingenuity nails 8th flight on the Red Planet
SPACE.com - 22 Jun 2021 15:09
NASA's experimental Mars helicopter has now flown eight times on the Red Planet, traveling farther than scientists hoped would be possible.
'Giant arc' stretching 3.3 billion light-years across the cosmos shouldn't exist
SPACE.com - 22 Jun 2021 13:19
Colossal arc of distant galaxies makes astronomers question some of their most cherished principles about the cosmos.
Toyota trains its robots to wipe down tables while taking selfies
Engadget - 22 Jun 2021 05:56Some Apple services like iMessage and the Calendar app are getting flooded with spam
BGR - 22 Jun 2021 05:55
I’m the kind of iOS user who tends to rant and rave when I see just a couple of errant spam messages appear in my iMessages app — especially when they’re a darker variant, which go beyond the missives that so many ...
NASA's aging Hubble Space Telescope still in safe mode as glitch fixes falter - CNET
CNET - 22 Jun 2021 05:02
A memory problem continues to plague the telescope's instruments.
Chrome for iOS experiment brings Face ID lock for Incognito tabs
Slash Gear - 22 Jun 2021 04:29
Incognito mode, which also goes by Safe Browsing or Private Browsing names, has become a common method these days for less technical users to protect themselves from online spying. The basic idea is that the browser won�...
China has once again tanked the entire cryptocurrency market
BGR - 22 Jun 2021 03:01
When Elon Musk isn’t busy manipulating the cryptocurrency market, China is happy to do so in his place. In a repeat of what we witnessed earlier this year, bitcoin is crashing on Monday, following more bad news from Ch...
Bitcoin, Dogecoin and Ethereum are crashing. Here's why - CNET
CNET - 22 Jun 2021 02:27
China is cracking down -- again.
Amazon Prime Day 2021: The best storage, SSD and flash drive deals on day 2
ZDNet - 22 Jun 2021 21:27
Here are the very best Amazon Prime Day 2021 deals on storage, SSD and flash drives.
Synthetic tree enhances solar steam generation for harvesting drinking water
Phys.org - 22 Jun 2021 20:43
About 2.2 billion people globally lack reliable access to clean drinking water, according to the United Nations, and the growing impacts of climate change are likely to worsen this reality.
Incoming Visitor From the Oort Cloud Could Be Among the Largest Comets Ever Documented
Gizmodo - 22 Jun 2021 19:55
An object of unusual size will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2031, during which time it will swing past the orbit of Saturn and possibly turn into an exceptionally large comet. Astronomers are already looking f...
Hedge Fund That Took Massive Losses on GameStop Thanks to WallStreetBets Is Shutting Down
Gizmodo - 22 Jun 2021 19:24
One of the hedge funds targeted by notorious Reddit investment board r/WallStreetBets is bust, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
This Pole-Dancing-Company-Turned-Oil-Driller Is the Latest Meme Stock
Gizmodo - 22 Jun 2021 19:10
Buckle up, backseat investors and climate fiends. An oil and gas company with a sketchy history has become the target of a short squeeze, led primarily by Reddit investors who have been driving hedge funds wild this year...
Rocky Linux 8.4 is officially available to replace your CentOS deployments
TechRepublic - 22 Jun 2021 19:02
Rocky Linux 8.4 has officially arrived. Jack Wallen explains what you need to know about this data center-ready Linux distribution and how to get it.
The best gadgets you can get on Prime Day for less than $100
Engadget - 22 Jun 2021 18:30How to get a month of Paramount+ free via Apple TV
Cult of Mac - 22 Jun 2021 18:00
Apple TV users can get a free month of Paramount+, the streaming service formerly known as CBS All Access, Apple said Monday in a tweet. The trial offer, running now through June 30, is available to new Paramount+ subscr...
Instructions Show How Cops Use GrayKey to Brute Force iPhones
Motherboard - 22 Jun 2021 15:00
Newly released documents provide new insight into the capabilities of the iPhone unlocking tech.
Is dark matter real, or have we misunderstood gravity?
Phys.org - 22 Jun 2021 14:50
For many years now, astronomers and physicists have been in a conflict. Is the mysterious dark matter that we observe deep in the Universe real, or is what we see the result of subtle deviations from the laws of gravity ...
Passwordless Authentication Firm Transmit Security Raises $543 Million
SecurityWeek - 22 Jun 2021 14:26
Identity solutions provider Transmit Security on Tuesday announced raising $543 million in a Series A funding round.
This Agency Wants to Figure Out Exactly How Much You Trust AI
Wired - 22 Jun 2021 14:00
The National Institute of Standards and Technology measures how many photons pass through a chicken. Now, it wants to quantify transparency around algorithms.
An Observatory Spied on LA's Carbon Emissions--From Space
Wired - 22 Jun 2021 14:00
The instrument reads sunlight intensity to determine carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere. Its findings could help reduce our carbon footprint.