When imaged with cross-polarized light the angrite meteorite NWA 12774 shimmers like a rainbow kaleidoscope. A new study suggests that the space rock, first discovered in 2019, could be a fragment from a long-lost protoplanet from the early solar system. (Image credit: CU Boulder/John Kashuba) Quick facts What it is: NWA 12774, a 16-ounce (454Continue Reading
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is an anonymous comment offering a theory about ICE’s addiction to masks: Let me suggest a different reason… Let’s say that all of those J6 dumbfucks who livestreamed their crimes, and who now have received pardons for acting like trailerContinue Reading
A new version of HandBrake, the open-source and cross-platform media conversion tool, is available to download. HandBrake 1.11.2 is a maintenance update in the current 1.11.x stable release, which was released in March 2026 and added DNxHR and ProRes encoder support, and an AMD VCN AV1 10-bit encoder compatible withContinue Reading
Mital Gandhi is trying to convince his neighbors to sell their homes to data center developers for $4.4 million., Mital Gandhi is trying to convince his neighbors to sell their homes to data center developers for $4.4 million., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
Reliving the glory days of the GNOME 2 desktop is but a browser tab away – well, kinda. The personal website of Benny Powers, a software developer at Red Hat, is not a traditional vertical column of text. Nor is it a slop-soup of purple gradients, rounded glassy cards andContinue Reading
Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD is developing humanoid robots, according to a person familiar with the matter cited by Chinese media outlet Yicai on Wednesday. The report follows recent comments from BYD Executive Vice President Li Ke, who confirmed in an interview that the company is working on humanoid robotics…Continue Reading
The Boeing 747 is an icon of aviation, but it’s a five-decade-old airframe that seats just slightly more passengers than a Boeing 777-300ER while flying about as far, and doing so with four engines rather than two. It doesn’t offer airlines anything that can’t be done by a more fuel-efficientContinue Reading
The Lockheed F-117 Night Hawk is a later Cold War icon and is famous for being one of the most closely guarded black box projects. It was the first operational stealth, or more accurately, low-observable, combat aircraft. The F-117 was a harbinger of things to come.Continue Reading
Sonderling said employers are expected to use artificial intelligence to supplement their operations and will be looking for AI-literate employees., Sonderling said employers are expected to use artificial intelligence to supplement their operations and will be looking for AI-literate employees., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
I use ProtonMail for all official communication related to It’s FOSS. Around 2020, I took their Visionary plan and switched from Google Workspace for the @itsfoss.com emails. The bundled offer of email, VPN, calendar, drive and password manager is a good ecosystem in its own. I am happy with theirContinue Reading
Nvidia’s upcoming PC processor plans may have slipped out ahead of schedule, and the leak hints at something much bigger than a single flagship chip…Continue Reading
A century old idea from Erwin Schrödinger has taken a major step forward, thanks to new research into how humans perceive differences between colors. A team led by Los Alamos scientist Roxana Bujack used geometry to build a mathematical definition of color perception based on hue, saturation, and lightness. Their results, presented at a visualizationContinue Reading
Ready or not, Lobo is charging onto the big screen in “Supergirl” (Image credit: DC Comics / DC Studios) Lobo, that crazy intergalactic mercenary affectionately known as “The Main Man” is rumbling into James Gunn and Peter Safran’s DCU and onto the big screen this June with his first live-action feature film in director CraigContinue Reading