Month: December 2021
We just touched the Sun for the first time in human history
Audio player loading… A spacecraft just touched the Sun for the first time in human history. The Parker Solar Probe flew through the Sun’s atmosphere, known as its corona, collecting particles and measuring the Sun’s magnetic field, according to NASA. “Parker Solar Probe ‘touching the Sun’ is a monumental moment…
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Instagram reportedly hit 2 billion active users but probably won’t admit it
Instagram has reportedly climbed to 2 billion monthly active users, that is according to anonymous employees who broke the news to CNBC. The Meta-owned company hasn’t — and probably won’t — officially disclosed these numbers, as it has spent the last several months under scrutiny for potentially causing harm to…
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T-Mobile’s not-Chromecast Google TV dongle adds an ethernet jack
T-Mobile’s TVision streaming service was not long for this world, but its name lives on in the TVision Hub — a $50 dongle with Google TV. It appears to function a lot like Google’s own Chromecast, but along with some T-Mobile branding, 9to5Google points out that it offers a feature…
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IBM and Samsung say their new chip design could lead to week-long battery life on phones
IBM and Samsung have announced their latest advance in semiconductor design: a new way to stack transistors vertically on a chip (instead of lying flat on the surface of the semiconductor). The new Vertical Transport Field Effect Transistors (VTFET) design is meant to succeed the current FinFET technology that’s used…
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Researchers film rare deep sea fish with transparent head
Audio player loading… A team from the Monterey Bay Aquarium were filming for an upcoming exhibition when they spotted a rare site: a deep sea critter with a transparent forehead and bizarre upward-facing eyes. While collecting and combing jellies for the aquarium’s planned Into The Deep exhibition, the aquarium team…
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Inscryption mod makes the game’s best part endlessly replayable
Inscryption, my game of the year, Polygon’s game of the year, and what should be your game of the year, is getting a free mini update that gives its fans exactly what they want — a way to endlessly play the game’s first act. Kacyee’s Mod, available now as a…
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