An artist’s impression of a white dwarf sitting in the center of the remnant of a planetary system. Mark A. Garlick /space-art.co.uk/University of Warwick Dead planets orbiting dead stars can give off ghostly radio wave emissions that are detectable from Earth, allowing us to track planets even billions of years after their stars have run […]
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Soon you’ll be able to watch PBS on YouTube
Enlarge / PBS, the United States’ public TV service, focuses on educational content, dramas, and childrens’ programming, among other things. PBS PBS and YouTube have announced that PBS and PBS Kids will join YouTube TV’s channel roster. The two partners made the announcement this week at the summer Television Critics Association’s (TCA) press tour. Three hundred […]
Meet NASA’s climbing robots, able to move through the slipperiest environments
RoboSimian can walk on four legs, crawl, move like an inchworm and slide on its belly. In this photo, it stands on the Devil’s Golf Course in Death Valley, California, for field testing with engineer Brendan Chamberlain-Simon. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech When it comes to exploring far off planets, robots need to be able to tackle all […]
Systems with small disks won’t be able to install Windows 10 May 2019 update
Enlarge Alpha Six Traditionally, Microsoft would use the release of a new operating system to bump the minimum hardware requirements that the software needs. With Windows 10 being the “last” version of Windows, Microsoft is using the major updates to bump specs. The May 2019 update, version 1903, takes the opportunity to do just this. […]
Microsoft says hackers were able to view Outlook.com emails
Microsoft isn’t having any luck this week with its Outlook.com email service. After reports initially noted that hackers were able to compromise Outlook.com servers for months, recent updates from Microsoft itself are beginning to show a bit more detrimental picture. Motherboard has reported that 6% of affected individuals received an email from the Redmond, Washington-based company […]
Google: Software is never going to be able to fix Spectre-type bugs
Enlarge Aurich Lawson / Getty Images Researchers from Google investigating the scope and impact of the Spectre attack have published a paper asserting that Spectre-like vulnerabilities are likely to be a continued feature of processors and, further, that software-based techniques for protecting against them will impose a high performance cost. And whatever the cost, the […]
Hacker discovers a MacOS exploit that is able to access system passwords
Security researcher Linus Henze recently uncovered a vulnerability within MacOS Mojave that allows an unauthorized application to steal passwords from both your Mac’s ‘login’ and ‘system’ Keychains. As macOS’ password management system, Keychain has been implemented since Mac OS 8.6, keeping user’s most important data safe and secure; however, as of late it doesn’t seem to […]
Thrill-seekers will be able to pilot themselves in a giant drone as soon as 2019
[embedded content] Do you yawn at the suggestion of bungee diving? Bored by the prospect of kayaking and couldn’t care less about performing some laps in the latest race car? No problem: Very soon you’ll be able to get your weekend thrill fix by taking a giant 18-rotor rideable drone out (or, more appropriately, up) […]
Regular paints and plastics will soon be able to ‘heal’ like skin
[embedded content] Imagine if paints, plastics, or even coatings like the ones which protect our cell phone screens were able to heal the way human skin does whenever they suffered damage. That’s what researchers at Clemson University have been working toward — and their solution is almost ready for mass-manufacturing prime time. Although the technology […]
6 flying cars that you might actually be able to own (and fly) in your lifetime
Today, commuting to work in a personal helicopter or private jet is something that’s only really available to billionaire CEOs, hedge fund managers, and “one hit wonder” rappers who are six months away from bankruptcy. That’s all going to change in the near future, however. Just like the way that cellphones used to be exclusively […]