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Watch SpaceX's Crew Dragon take one of its shortest journeys on Thursday
Digital Trends - 1 May 2024 03:35
SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft is about to take a very short journey at the International Space Station and you can watch a live stream of the maneuver.
Generating graph states of atomic ensembles via photon-mediated entanglement
Phys.org - 1 May 2024 16:30
Graph states, a class of entangled quantum states that can be represented by graphs, have been the topic of numerous recent physics studies, due to their intriguing properties. These unique properties could make them par...
Walmart is about to launch a 4K Chromecast that's also a smart speaker
The Verge - 1 May 2024 22:16
An ethernet port! | Screenshot: Superdell-TV Walmart is apparently getting ready to release a new Onn "Pro" Google TV 4K streaming box that's also a smart speaker. Yesterday, YouTuber Superdell-TV hosted a livestream whe...
Google cuts 200 jobs to move faster and to better align with its 'goals'
Android Central - 1 May 2024 22:29
Google has cut nearly two hundred jobs as it looks to better align with its 'goals' moving forward.
FBI says to watch out for verification scams on dating apps
BGR - 1 May 2024 02:08
It’s completely despicable, but not in the least surprising, that scammers have turned to dating apps to find their latest victims. The FBI recently published … The post FBI says to watch out for verification scams o...
We're one step closer to replicating the human brain
Digital Trends - 1 May 2024 01:49
Scientists have just created an iontronic memristor -- a device that might become the foundation of building computers that think like humans do.
Microsoft boss charms Indonesia with $1.7B AI, cloud injection
The Register - 1 May 2024 00:16
Promises to train 850,000 workers and build datacenters Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the company will invest $1.7 billion in expanding its presence and building datacenters in Indonesia....
Sun unleashes near X-class solar flare: M9.5 eruption sparks radio blackouts across the Pacific (video)
SPACE.com - 1 May 2024 15:22
Explore the impact of a near X-class solar flare, registering M9.5, as it disrupts radio signals across the Pacific. The eruption was sunspot AR3654's most powerful yet.
The Cheyenne Supercomputer is going for a fraction of its list price at auction right now
Engadget - 1 May 2024 01:53Expect dismal iPhone sales but hints of AI in Apple quarterly results
Cult of Mac - 1 May 2024 20:30
Apple will likely announce a drop in quarterly revenue this week, but company executives will talk up AI plans. (via Cult of Mac - Apple news, rumors, reviews and how-tos)
This Lenovo gaming PC with RTX 3050 and 16GB of RAM is on sale for $650
Digital Trends - 1 May 2024 20:30
The Lenovo LOQ Tower is a budget-friendly gaming desktop that's even cheaper with Best Buy's $250 discount, but it's perfect for playing the best PC games.
New work reveals the 'quantumness' of gravity
Phys.org - 1 May 2024 20:22
Gravity is part of our everyday life. Still, the gravitational force remains mysterious: to this day we do not understand whether its ultimate nature is geometrical, as Einstein envisaged, or governed by the laws of quan...
I only keep 10 third-party apps on my iPhone - here's which ones make the cut
BGR - 1 May 2024 20:22
When I wrote about the 14 apps that I'll always keep on my iPhone's Home Screen, our editor Zach Epstein practically lost it that none … The post I only keep 10 third-party apps on my iPhone – here’s which ones mak...
Science has an AI problem: Research group says they can fix it
Phys.org - 1 May 2024 20:00
AI holds the potential to help doctors find early markers of disease and policymakers to avoid decisions that lead to war. But a growing body of evidence has revealed deep flaws in how machine learning is used in science...
A new roadmap to close the carbon cycle
Phys.org - 1 May 2024 19:20
A major approach to achieving net-zero carbon emissions relies on converting various parts of the economy, such as personal vehicles and heating, to run via electricity generated from renewable sources. But carbon cannot...
Big Science Drives Wallops' Upgrades for NASA Suborbital Missions
NASA Breaking news - 1 May 2024 17:01
Large amounts of data collected by today's sensitive science instruments present a data-handling challenge to small rocket and balloon suborbital mission computing and avionics systems.
DeepKeep Launches AI-Native Security Platform With $10 Million in Seed Funding
SecurityWeek - 1 May 2024 15:49
AI-Native Trust, Risk, and Security Management (TRiSM) startup DeepKeep raises $10 million in seed funding. The post DeepKeep Launches AI-Native Security Platform With $10 Million in Seed Funding appeared first on Securi...
Tesla staff say entire Supercharger team fired
BBC - 1 May 2024 15:17
The division responsible for the car-maker's huge fast-charging network is being axed to cut costs.
Majority of Americans brand TikTok as a Chinese influence tool, poll finds
ReadWrite - 1 May 2024 15:10
TikTok hasn't been favored too kindly in a recent poll as a majority of Americans believe that China uses the…
2 astronaut taxis: Why NASA wants both Boeing's Starliner and SpaceX's Dragon
SPACE.com - 1 May 2024 14:00
Boeing's Starliner will make its first crewed launch as soon as May 6, about four years after SpaceX's. Having two private astronaut taxis will provide redundancy for ISS operations and more.
Open source programming language R patches gnarly arbitrary code exec flaw
The Register - 1 May 2024 02:59
An ACE in the hole for miscreants The open source R programming language - popular among statisticians and data scientists for performing visualization, machine learning, and suchlike - has patched an arbitrary code exec...
New observatory in Chile--the highest in the world--aims to reveal origins of planets, galaxies and more
Phys.org - 1 May 2024 02:00
How do planets form? How do galaxies evolve? And ultimately, how did the universe itself begin? A unique astronomical observatory that researchers hope will unravel some of the biggest mysteries out there marks its openi...