Tim Sweezy
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Scientists who conducted a six-year study of the Thwaites glacier, often dubbed the “doomsday glacier,” say the outlook for the massive iceberg is “grim.” The research team, using ice-breaking ships and underwater robots, determined the iceberg is melting at an accelerating rate which could put it on an irreversible...
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A new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) staff report accuses social media and video streaming sites of engaging in vast surveillance of consumers in order to monetize personal information, while failing to adequately protect children and teens.
The government’s battle with social media is nothing new. The US Senate...
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NASA’s Webb telescope tells an elliptical and spiral galaxy to say “Cheese!” The image is a composite of images, combining observations from Webb’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) and NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) of a pair of galaxies collectively known as Arp 107.
The pair of galaxies, located 465 million...
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YouTube unveiled new creation tools at its annual Made on YouTube event aimed at helping creators build communities by enhancing viewer interaction and creator monetization. From YouTube Veo to the new Community Hub, there were plenty of announcements to help creators big and small.
Just What Is Veo
Dream Screen...
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Astronomers have detected the largest pair of black hole jets ever seen. The pair spans 23-million light-years, or the equivalent to lining up 140 Milky Way galaxies back to back.
According to NASA, supermassive black holes are millions to tens of billions times the mass of the Sun. A census using the Hubble Space...
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Snap has announced its next generation Spectacles, a new see-through, standalone pair of AR glasses. The glasses are powered by Snap OS, the company’s new operating system designed to enhance how people naturally interact with the world.
Snap put its first pair of shades on back in 2016 with the first generation of...
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Researchers have come across some evidence suggesting Earth had a ring system around 466 million years ago, which may have been a contributor to the global cooling event known as the Hirnantian Icehouse. The hypothesis comes from plate tectonic reconstructions for the Ordovician period, a period of unusually intense...
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ATLAS, an asteroid impact early warning system in Hawaii, spotted a small asteroid that will temporarily orbit Earth for the next two months. Asteroid 2024 PT5 is a 10-meter (33-feet) wide space rock that is expected to come as close as 1 million kilometers of Earth in an orbital path that resembles a...
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The month of September is chock full of celestial goodness, with a partial lunar eclipse highlighting the festivities. September’s full moon, also called the Harvest moon, will also be a Supermoon, meaning it will appear ever so slightly bigger and brighter than the average full moon.
As NASA and the US government...
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As space exploration aims to go further than ever before, space agencies and companies are looking at new ways to sustain longer duration space flights, as well as on other planetary bodies. A collaboration between Airbus, Cranfield University, and the European Space Agency (ESA) brought about the first metal 3D...
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Samsung and LG have some incredible deals on gaming monitors right now. Whether someone wants an UltraWide experience, or a mainstream 27-inch monitor, the two companies have a myriad of options to choose from.
Samsung 49-inch Odyssey OLED G9
The Samsung 49-inch Odyssey OLED G9 gaming monitor will immerse any...
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Starlink and United Airlines will be joining forces to bring broadband internet to United's fleet of airplanes. Starlink will allow for gate-to-gate internet service and will unlock inflight entertainment experiences, such as access to live TV and streaming services, shopping, gaming, and more.
While SpaceX has...
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Apple’s latest iPhone 16 models are finally up for preorder, with a slew of storage and color options to choose from. Whether an Apple fan prefers the larger Pro Max in Black Ttianium, or the smaller and more affordable iPhone 16 in Ultramarine, the choice is theirs to make.
iPhone 16 Pro Max Preorders Are...
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As NASA and other space agencies continue working toward sedning humans back to the moon, the agency’s Space Communication and Navigation (SCaN) program is leading efforts to create a coordinated lunar time standard. The goal is to enable a future lunar ecosystem that could be scalable to other locations in our solar...
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SpaceX has performed the first private spacewalk during the Polaris Dawn mission, viewing Earth 458 miles below. Crew members Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis took turns floating just outside the Dragon capsule while wearing specially-designed suits.
After having its launch delayed due to the FAA grounding all...
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Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft made a successful return to Earth over the weekend, but not without some additional issues being found. While NASA reported astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams would have been safe on the spacecraft, it also reported a thruster had failed during Starliner’s decent.
Issues with...
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Hubble may be the older sibling to the more advanced James Webb Space Telescope, but it is still being used to help solve the riddles and mysteries of the universe. Now, along with the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the iconic space telescope unexpectedly unveiled a duo of supermassive black holes within a pair of...
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Sony has announced its highly anticipated PlayStation 5 Pro console after months of leaks and rumors. The next gen console will feature an upgraded GPU, with enhanced Ray Tracing, and AI-driven upscaling.
The announcement of the PS5 Pro comes on the heels of Sony facing a bit of embarrassment surrounding its failed...
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A dramatic new video shows how Earth’s surface has changed over the last 1.8 billion years. The video reconstructs Earth’s surface evolution, and is presented as a relative plate motion model in a paleomagnetic reference frame.
The video, based on the work of Xianzhi Cao from the Ocean University in China and...
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Europe’s top court handed both Google and Apple multi-billion dollar penalties in a single day. The decision brought an end the crackdown EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager, whose term ends in November, brought against the two tech giants nearly a decade ago.
Apple’s celebration of its Glowtime event yesterday...
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Apple’s Glowtime event introduced a new generation of iPhones packed with AI horsepower, aka Apple Intelligence, new camera button features, and more.
In terms of processing power, Apple jumped from the A16 Bionic chip in the iPhone 15 to the new A18 chip in the iPhone 16. The company remarked the new chip was up...
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Apple is set to reveal its new iPhone 16 family of smartphones, along with an array of other devices, at its Glowtime event later today. The Cupertino-based company is also expected to show off its new Apple Watch Series 10, AirPods 4, and possibly new AirPods Max headphones.
The event itself will include a keynote...
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