On November 6, Jetstar announced a brand-new route. Beginning in March, Qantas’ lower-cost unit will fly from Sunshine Coast—Australia’s tenth-busiest airport by passenger traffic—to Bali and on to Singapore. Bali is to Australians what Cancun is to Americans and Malaga is to Europeans. It will surely make my celebratory WeeklyContinue Reading
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The gas giant WASP-18b, shown in this artist’s rendition, is tidally locked to its star. A new 3D map of its atmosphere reveals that its hottest zone might be ripping water apart. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Scientists have created a three dimensional map of a distant planet’s atmosphere for the first time. Using data from theContinue Reading
The Shenzhou-20 crew — Wang Jie (left), Chen Zhongrui (center), and Chen Dong (right) — has been stranded on board the Tiangong space station after their return capsule was hit with space junk. The trio launched into space on April 24. (Image credit: PEDRO PARDO/AFP via Getty Images) Three Chinese astronauts, or taikonauts, have beenContinue Reading
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — In 2021, Danish video game live-streamer Marie Watson received an image of herself from an unknown Instagram account. She instantly recognized the holiday snap from her Instagram account, but something was different: Her clothing had been digitally removed to make her appear naked. It was aContinue Reading
MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) — India is repatriating on Thursday the first batch of hundreds of its nationals who last month fled to Thailand from Myanmar, where most had been working at a notorious center for online scams. The center, known as KK Park on the outskirts of the borderContinue Reading
The all-electric vehicles are equipped with shotguns, shields and ladders and additional battery capacity to better handle the demands of a police department…Continue Reading
AI and bots are everywhere. YouTube is filled with AI generated, low-quality videos; Facebook and other social media are no different. What is more concerning is the report that more than 50% of the internet traffic is by bots. Gone are the days when the Internet connected humans. Are weContinue Reading
Modal Motors, a Michigan-based electric motor manufacturer specializing in non-rare earth hub motors, drone propulsion systems and robotic actuators, has raised $2 million in a seed funding round. The company will use the funding to bring its next generation of electric motors into production. The new funds will accelerate ModalContinue Reading
Sponsored by Advanced Test Equipment Corp. EVSE, or Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment, transfers electrical power from a power source to an electric vehicle. These devices can come in many different forms, such as charging stations, EV chargers, and charging points, but they all function under that basic principle. EVSEs todayContinue Reading
It’s finally happening! The year of the Linux… PC gaming handheld device. (Okay, that doesn’t quite roll off the tongue.) According to the latest Steam hardware survey, Linux has just over 3 percent of the market share of users who have Steam installed. It has almost certainly benefited from Valve’sContinue Reading
Want to squeeze a bit more performance out of Ubuntu 25.10? If you have a modern 64-bit CPU and don’t mind the risk, you can use Ubuntu’s new amd64v3 packages – I’ll show you how. Also known as x86-64-v3, these ‘optimised’ packages take advantage of instructions sets in the theContinue Reading