Last night video game preservation group, The Hidden Palace, released over 700 PS2 early builds, prototypes,…
Year: 2021
Raspberry Pi Detects Unseen Cosmic Rays from Space
A down-to-earth project to keep your head in the stars. Read more at Tom’s Hardware…
A New Object Just Appeared In This Constellation
An amateur astronomer discovered a new nova appearing in the Cassiopeia constellation last Thursday — and…
The Long Journey Ahead For Linux On Apple Silicon
An old joke from the Linux community about its prevalence in computing quips that Linux will…
A Photographer Spent 12 Years Making This Milky Way Pic. It Will Crush Your Tiny Heart
Have you ever thought to yourself, “Gosh, I sure wish I could feel extremely small and…
Police warn students to avoid science website
Universities are urged to block a science research website, which police say could put data at…
A Woman Got the First Dose of the Moderna Vaccine While Pregnant—and She Passed Her Protective Antibodies to Her Infant
Find out more about the first-known baby to be born with COVID antibodies after her mom…
Scientist behind coronavirus shot says next target is cancer
BERLIN (AP) — The scientist who won the race to deliver the first widely used coronavirus…
Raspberry Pi Zero Emulates ’80s ZX Spectrum PC From Inside a Cassette Tape
What were cassettes for again? Read more at Tom’s Hardware…
What happens when your massive text-generating neural net starts spitting out people’s phone numbers? If you’re OpenAI, you create a filter
How to curb GPT-3’s tongue? Read more…
Microbes Unknown to Science Discovered on The International Space Station
The menagerie of bacterial and fungal species living among us is ever growing – and this…
Raspberry Pi Cosmic Ray Detector
[Marco] has a sodium iodide detector that indicates cosmic radiation by scintillation. The material glows when…
COVID-19 vaccines are probably less effective at preventing transmission than symptoms – here’s why
Injected vaccines tend to generate good immunity overall but less of a response in the nose…
Local Denial of Service in Nissan Leaf EV (2018) Head Unit Display
The head unit display in the Nissan Leaf electric vehicle (EV) has a local denial of…
Vaccines should end the pandemic, despite the variants, say experts
Can the current crop of vaccines get us to herd immunity even if variants become widespread?…
Hubble Space Telescope is back online after software glitch
The venerable hubble space telescope is recovering from a glitch that halted its science operations over…
Asahi’s plan for Linux on Apple’s new silicon shows Cupertino has gone back to basics with iOS booting
Open source project shows Apple has done some funky stuff with M1. Read more…
New Ebola outbreak likely sparked by a person infected 5 years ago
Genome analyses suggesting virus persistence raise worries about stigmatization of survivors. Read more at Science |…
NASA Officials Are Worried That Pirates Will Steal the James Webb Telescope
“Why would you announce that you’re going to be shipping on a certain day something that…
Scientists Have Unlocked the Secrets of the Ancient ‘Antikythera Mechanism’
A digital model has revealed a complex planetarium on the ancient device’s face. “Unless it’s from…