The Vision Pro got its first Virtual Boy emulator in an app called VirtualFriend, finally giving me, a person with an irrational love for Nintendo’s most short-lived console, a chance to play it in immersive 3D once more. The app is also available for iOS and iPadOS, where it’s a virtually identical experience, minus the
Read MoreUnfortunately, [Dave Niewinski]’s kids are still too little to go on a real roller coaster. But they’re certainly big enough to be tossed around by this giant robot arm roller coaster simulator. As to the question of why [Dave] has a Kuka KR 150 robot in his house, we prefer to leave that unasked and
Read MoreSecurity researcher Bill Demirkapi found more than 15,000 hardcoded secrets and 66,000 vulnerable websites—all by searching overlooked data sources.
Read MoreSlashdot reader sciencehabit shared this report from Science magazine: One of the classic tropes of science fiction is terraforming Mars: warming up our cold neighbor so it could support human civilization. The idea might not be so far-fetched, research published today in Science Advances suggests… Samaneh Ansari [a Ph.D. student at Northwestern University and lead
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Tesla has stopped selling the $60,990 RWD Cybertruck, the cheapest version of its angular EV truck, Jalopnik writes. At the same time, the company increased the price of the next-in-line AWD Cybertruck by $20,000. Now $99,990, it elevates the EV’s price floor by a whopping $39,000. The
Read MoreFBI agent Rick Smith remembered seeing that Austrian-born Silicon Valley entrepreneur one year earlier — walking into San Francisco’s Soviet Consulate in the early 1980s. Their chance reunion at a bar “would sow the seeds for a major counterintelligence campaign,” writes a national security journalist in Politico, describing the collaboration as “an FBI-led operation that
Read More“CrowdStrike has continued doing what gave it such an expansive footprint in the first place,” writes CSO Online — “detecting cyber threats and protecting its clients from them.” They interviewed Adam Meyers, CrowdStrike’s SVP of counter adversary operations, whose team produced their 2024 Threat Hunting Report (released this week at the Black Hat conference). Of
Read MoreSusan Wojcicki is one of this era’s great unsung executives—and was crucial to Google’s trajectory from its very beginnings in her garage.
Read MoreSamsung launched a little of everything during its second Unpacked event of 2024. It brought the highly anticipated Galaxy Ring to market, added two new foldables to the portfolio, and introduced its first Ultra-tier smartwatch. Lost in the middle of all that excitement was another wearable — the Galaxy Watch 7 — which got a
Read MoreWindows 11 depends on online time servers to keep the date and time updated. This is why the date and time on Windows 11 are accurate and don’t change. By default, Windows 11 is configured to set the time zone automatically, but for some reason, the feature may get disabled. You can enable the feature
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority At Android Authority, we’ve been discussing how often you should upgrade your phone and how to make it last longer, but one other question kept popping up internally between us: How much should you spend on your smartphone, ideally? The answer to that, as you can guess, is very
Read More“The artificial turf industry has had a great deal of success convincing millions of people that its short-lived, nonrecyclable, fossil-fuel-derived product is somehow good for the environment,” complains the head of Los Angeles’ chapter of the advocacy nonprofit, the Climate Reality Project. In an opinion piece published in the Los Angeles Times, he argues that
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority October 2017: Google announced the Pixel 2 XL, and I spent a couple of days jumping through hoops trying to order the phone’s panda version to ship to Lebanon. My first few orders didn’t go through because the Google Store was refusing my Lebanese credit card, so I
Read MoreThis iterative refresh has an excellent 16-inch screen, good performance (for a Chromebook), and great battery life.
Read MoreThis iterative refresh has an excellent 16-inch screen, good performance (for a Chromebook), and great battery life.
Read MoreSonos software still stands in the way of enjoying the company’s gorgeous, innovative hardware.
Read More[Mark] starts a post from a bit ago with: “… maybe you have also heard that SystemVerilog is simply an extension of Verilog, focused on testing and verification.” This is both true and false, depending on how you look at it. [Mark] then explains what the differences are. It’s a good read if you are
Read More[Mark] starts a post from a bit ago with: “… maybe you have also heard that SystemVerilog is simply an extension of Verilog, focused on testing and verification.” This is both true and false, depending on how you look at it. [Mark] then explains what the differences are. It’s a good read if you are
Read MoreThe Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is exploring the possibility of directly converting radiation from nuclear reactors into electricity using radiovoltaics, a technology that could potentially revolutionize nuclear power generation by moving beyond traditional steam turbine methods. The agency is requesting information and suggestions on this topic in an RFI released on August 1st.
Read MoreThe Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is exploring the possibility of directly converting radiation from nuclear reactors into electricity using radiovoltaics, a technology that could potentially revolutionize nuclear power generation by moving beyond traditional steam turbine methods. The agency is requesting information and suggestions on this topic in an RFI released on August 1st.
Read More[Extreme Kits] asks the question: “What the hell is a luminiferous theremin?” We have to admit, we know what a thermin is, but that’s as far as we got. You’ve surely seen and heard a theremin, the musical instrument developed by Leon Theremin that makes swoopy music often associated with science fiction movies. The luminiferous
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Disney’s D23 showcase of new projects from Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, Pixar, and more is upon us. Continue reading…
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Inertial confinement fusion is one method for generating energy through nuclear fusion, albeit one plagued by all manner of scientific challenges (although progress is being made). Researchers at LeHigh University are attempting to overcome one specific bugbear with this approach by conducting experiments with mayonnaise placed
Read MoreOne can only imagine the wonders held within the crypto labs of organizations like the CIA or NSA. Therein must be machines of such sophistication that no electronic device could resist their attempts to defeat whatever security is baked into their silicon. Machines such as these no doubt bear price tags that only a no-questions-asked
Read MoreAfter a 7.1 tremor struck southwestern Japan on Thursday, the country’s meteorological agency issued its first-ever alert for a possible “megaquake.” It marks the first time the warning has been issued under new rules drawn up after a 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster killed almost 20,000 people. Phys.org reports: The JMA’s “megaquake advisory” warns
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