Month: March 2021
New black hole image shows off vortex of magnetic chaos
A new, detailed shot of a black hole reveals spiraling lines of mysterious magnetic forces that give astronomers an unprecedented look at how these cosmic monsters behave. It’s an intimate portrait of the black hole at the center of the gigantic M87 galaxy, which lies some 55 million light-years away…
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Daily Crunch: Don’t panic about Slack’s new Connect feature
Slack launches a new direct messaging feature, Amazon Web Services gets a new leader and we round up our favorite Y Combinator startups. This is your Daily Crunch for March 24, 2021. The big story: Don’t panic about Slack’s new Connect feature Slack recently launched the new direct messaging feature…
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Apple picked a truly embarrassing time to wrongly reject a simple app update
Apple has a rocky relationship with some iOS developers because of its seemingly arbitrary decisions over what gets published and when — and now, because of a dumb miss, it’s being accused of putting profits ahead of human rights in Myanmar by the founder of ProtonMail and ProtonVPN, even though…
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New Nvidia Quadro RTX cards found online Nvidia RTX A6000
Two new professional-grade RTX graphics cards from Nvidia, the RTX A5000 and RTX A4000, have been spotted in an online OpenCL certification document, suggesting Nvidia may be close to bringing the new cards to market. The two cards, first flagged by Twitter user @KOMACHI_ENSAKA, appeared on the Khronos Group’s OpenCL…
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Twitter may make tweeting more stressful with new emoji reactions
Have you ever been scrolling through Twitter and thought, “This website could really use some Facebook-style emoji reactions”? Yeah, me neither. Nonetheless, the company has been surveying users throughout the past month about that possibility, TechCrunch reports. Per screenshots of the survey that a Twitter user shared, the proposed emoji…
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Hundreds Of Far-Right Militias Are Still Organizing, Recruiting, And Promoting Violence On Facebook
When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faces Congress Thursday to testify about extremism online, he will do so as hundreds of far-right militias, including some whose members were charged in the deadly insurrection on the US Capitol, continue to organize, recruit, and promote violence on Facebook. More than 200 militia pages…
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