NASA’s New Exhibit Showcases our Home Planet and Climate
Follow a river of water vapor as it travels through Earth’s atmosphere and becomes heavy rain. Watch polar ice expand and contract as if our planet is breathing in slow motion. Discover how river channels and wind currents resemble the human nervous and circulatory systems. In an interactive new exhibitContinue Reading
US-German Satellites Show California Water Gains After Record Winter
In Brief: Early data shows the greatest net gain of water over the winter in nearly 22 years, but the state’s groundwater levels still suffer from the effects of years of drought. After years of intense drought and diminishing groundwater, California just saw its greatest year-over-year water gains in twoContinue Reading
Qualcomm pledges 8 years of security updates for Android kit using its chips (YMMV)
Starting with Snapdragon 8 Elite and ‘droid 15 It seems manufacturers are finally getting the message that people want to use their kit for longer without security issues, as Qualcomm has said it’ll provide Android software updates, including vulnerability fixes, for its latest chipsets for eight years instead of four.…,Continue Reading
Network edge? You get 64-bit Armv9 AI. You too, watches. And you, server remote management. And you…
Arm rolls out the Cortex-A320 for small embedded gear that dreams of big-model inference Arm predicts AI inferencing will soon be ubiquitous. In order to give devices the oomph they need for all that neural-network processing, it is beefing up its embedded platform with the first 64-bit Armv9 CPU coreContinue Reading
Wozniak: I didn’t reduce chip count for manufacturing. I wanted to prove I was clever
Plus: Beware of a hotspot called ‘spanky’ Computing pioneer Steve Wozniak didn’t set out to revolutionize the computer industry. He just wanted the respect of his fellow engineers.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
Are you cooler than ex-Apple design guru Sir Jony Ive?
What is it with high-powered execs and their love for U2? Ex-Apple design whiz Sir Jony Ive appeared on the BBC’s long-running Radio 4 show Desert Island Discs over the weekend. Despite his storied career and close friendship with the late Steve Jobs, his picks were pedestrian even for aContinue Reading
As China embraces Big Tech again, Alibaba plans vast spend to push for artificial general intelligence
Plus: Samsung exec jailed for selling DRAM secrets; ASUS launches sweetly scented mouse; Toyota’s smart city nears opening; and more Asia in Brief Chinese president Xi Jinping last week staged an event at which he urged private sector leaders, including China’s Big Tech companies, to help the nation speed itsContinue Reading
Orville Peck Reveals One Steamy and Unmasked Silhouette in First Look at ‘Cabaret’
Orville Peck, the gay country singer known for his unique blend of haunting melodies and masked persona, is set to make his Broadway debut as the iconic Emcee in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club this March. The announcement has stirred excitement among fans, with a first-look image recently sharedContinue Reading
How a Group of Immigrant Farmworkers Is Preparing for Avian Flu
Every month, around 50 dairy farmworkers filter into a church basement in western New York after a grueling day of work. They order dinner from a local Mexican or Puerto Rican restaurant, and settle in to discuss how to organize for their rights to a dignified life and workplace underContinue Reading
Napoleon in a Clown Nose
You know you are in deep constitutional trouble when your president invokes an apocryphal quote attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte to justify his contempt for the rule of law. On Feb. 15, Traitor 47 took to his Truth Social platform and his personal X account to post the quote, “He whoContinue Reading
Black Prisoners Organize for Dignity in Angola
At the helm of the United States’ notorious system of mass incarceration sits Louisiana State Penitentiary. Apart from being the largest maximum-security prison in the country, the prison, nicknamed “Angola” after the former plantation site that it sits on, is an example of the conditions of modern-day slavery that theContinue Reading
“Terrifying”: The Traitor’s Ominous Moment with RFK on First Measles Death
In Texas, an unvaccinated child just died of measles—the first reported death related to the disease’s recent outbreak. This came up at Traitor 47’s cabinet meeting on Wednesday, and the results were troubling. After Elon Musk admitted that his cuts had briefly closed down Ebola prevention, anti-vax Health and HumanContinue Reading
From vibrant corals to white skeletons: climate change and looming existential threats to coral reefs
Coral reefs and their ecosystems serve important roles on Earth – they flourish with biodiversity, providing habitat to 25% of known marine species [1,2] , and offer coastal protection from storm surges and cyclones [1] . However, coral reefs are also one of the most sensitive marine ecosystems on Earth,Continue Reading