Month: December 2021
How to watch The Book of Boba Fett online on Disney Plus from anywhere
Audio player loading… What happens when you drop two of the galaxy’s coldest gunslingers into the deepest, darkest belly of Jabba the Hutt’s underground empire? One of the most hotly anticipated and closely guarded releases in the Star Wars canon, of course. The wait is almost over, so read on…
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FCC win clears the way for a massive Wi-Fi 6E upgrade
A ruling (pdf) on Tuesday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has backed up an April 2020 decision by the FCC to open up 1,200MHz of spectrum in the 6GHz band for unlicensed use. Unlicensed means anyone can use it, as long as they…
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Your next CPU could use a lot fewer transistors
Audio player loading… The CPUs of the future could use far fewer transistors as a team of researchers have developed a new, adaptive transistor design capable of changing its configuration on the fly. With these new transistors created by researchers at the Vienna University of Technology, future processors could potentially…
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Another T-Mobile cyberattack reportedly exposed customer info and SIMs
T-Mobile has suffered another cyberattack after being rocked by a massive data breach in August. This time around, attackers accessed “a small number of” customers’ accounts, according to documents posted by The T-Mo Report. According to the report, customers either fell victim to a SIM swapping attack (which could allow…
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LastPass says no passwords were compromised following breach scare
LastPass says there’s no evidence of a data breach following users’ reports that they were notified of unauthorized login attempts, as reported by AppleInsider. The password manager maintains that it was never compromised, and users’ accounts haven’t been accessed by bad actors. Something very strange and bad is happening to…
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Researchers used CT scans to virtually unwrap a pristine mummy
In 1881, archaeologists discovered the mummy of Amenhotep I in Deir el-Bahari, a village outside of Egypt's famous Valley of the Kings. For 140 years, scientists have been unwilling to unwrap the king’s body out of fear they’ll damage his ornate face mask and bandages. But thanks to computer tomography…
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