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…

‘BootHole’ Secure Boot Threat Found In Most Every Linux Distro, Windows 8 And 10

A high-rated security vulnerability in the Secure Boot function of the majority of laptops, desktops, workstations…

To Make Oxygen on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance Rover Needs MOXIE

A new tool from the space agency may produce the gas, completing the next step for…

Self-training with Noisy Student improves ImageNet classification (Paper Explained)

The abundance of data on the internet is vast. Especially unlabeled images are plentiful and can…

Earth’s asteroid impact rate took a sudden jump 290 million years ago

Looking at impact craters on both the Earth and Moon, a team of scientists found that…

A Face Mask That’s Functional And Hacker-Certified

[splat238] needed a mask for going out in public, but wanted something that fit his personal…

AI model developed to identify individual birds without tagging

Distinguishing individual birds using AI could aid avian behaviour research Read more at the Guardian…

As if space wasn’t dangerous enough, bacteria become more deadly in microgravity

For many nations and their people, space is becoming the ultimate frontier. Read more at Inverse…

Fun New Way to Annoy Your Friends: Text Them in Hieroglyphics

You know you want to. Read more at Popular Mechanics…

Nearly half of employees have made a serious security mistake at work

Distraction and burnout can lead to serious mistakes when working online Read more at TechRadar…