‘Steven Spielberg’s Director’s Choices’ lets you dial in exactly how much overacting you want from Tarantino.…
Month: August 2020
Weird ‘boomerang’ earthquake detected under the Atlantic Ocean
The temblor shot across the seafloor and back to where it started so fast it created…
Mystery solved: 240-million-year-old reptile with ‘extraordinarily long neck’ lived in the ocean
Tanystropheus was first described in 1852 but until now, scientists didn’t know whether the 6m-long reptile…
Emma Watts’ Top Priority At Paramount: Figure Out ‘Star Trek’ Reboot
EXCLUSIVE: Looks like Paramount’s plan to next make the Star Trek movie that Noah Hawley wrote…
China is now blocking all encrypted HTTPS traffic that uses TLS 1.3 and ESNI | ZDNet
The block was put in place at the end of July and is enforced via China’s…
Apple just banned xCloud
0:00 Intro 0:20 Apple bans xCloud 3:28 Mediatek rescues Huawei 5:39 Should have been the Note…
Mysterious ‘fast radio burst’ detected closer to Earth than ever before
Most FRBs originate hundreds of millions of light-years away. This one came from inside the Milky…
Self-Contained Tape Loader For The ZX Spectrum
While these days we’re blessed with the magic of always-on internet connections and cloud services, back…
Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates
Microsoft Excel: 1 — Human Genetics: 0. Read more at The Verge…
The Tragic Physics of the Deadly Explosion in Beirut
A blast injury specialist explores the chemistry—and history—of explosions like the one captured in videos that…
Kite brings its AI-powered code completions to Jupyter notebooks
Kite’s code completions powered deep learning now work with JupyterLab and JupyterHub, helping data scientists as…
Ancient Mars may have been covered in ice, not water, study suggests
As the Perseverance rover heads to Mars to look for signs of ancient life, a new…