The sky over the Spaceport America in Las Cruces, New Mexico, was afire with lightning last night. The storm was sufficiently fierce to postpone Virgin Galactic’s planned rollout of its twin airships, mothership Eve and a space vehicle called...
Virgin Galactic’s flight will get to the border of space, with help from a mothership. | Virgin Galactic The Virgin Group founder is taking another step toward making space tourism a reality. British businessman...
Unless you're blind or know someone who is, you might not know that blind people use the same smartphones as sighted people. In fact, many blind people use touch-screen smartphones every day. The secret is that smartphones have a...
Each day, a team of analysts in the UK faces a seemingly endless mountain of horrors. The team of 21, who work at the Internet Watch Foundation’s office in Cambridgeshire, spend hours trawling through images and videos containing child...
For a study published in Nature Climate Change in 2017, Mora and his team analyzed hundreds of extreme heat events around the world to determine what combinations of heat and humidity were most likely to be deadly, and where...
President Biden signs the Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy. | Alex Wong/Getty Images The president’s big antitrust push could impact how much you pay for plane tickets and prescription drugs. President...
Ang Cui has spent 10 years hacking into internet-connected office phones and other “embedded devices”—that is, devices that don't look like computers or servers but have all the trappings: a processor, memory, and, often, the ability to connect to...
However, the researchers weren’t sure if the grid could handle many electric trucks simultaneously charging in one place. Unlike electric cars, which have relatively low power requirements and would be distributed through neighborhoods, fleets of electric trucks might strain...
The company blog post drips with the enthusiasm of a ’90s US infomercial. WellSaid Labs describes what clients can expect from its “eight new digital voice actors!” Tobin is “energetic and insightful.” Paige is “poised and expressive.” Ava is...
Ransomware is making the news more and more, and I suspect this will continue to happen for the next few years at least. Attackers mostly exploit neglect and a lack of expertise, and it’s a sure bet that their...
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