Ordering iPhone 11?
There’s one thing that wireless carriers might not want you to know. Apple will sell you an iPhone that will work on any carrier in the U.S. or abroad out of the box…AT&T and T-Mobile, however, lock phones on installment-payment plans until you pay them off, leaving you unable to switch carriers or use cheap…
Amazon Orders 100K Electric Vans from Rivian
Rivivan was just an EV startup, now they could be a potential market leader. Rivian went from EV startup to potential market leader as Amazon announced an order for 100,000 electric delivery vans. That investment back in February is starting to make a little more sense. The announcement came as part of Amazon Chief Jeff…
5G tech could set weather forecasting back decades
Yikes, we don’t need them to be any less accurate! The next generation of cell service, 5G, touts great consumer benefits including high speeds, low latency, and better reliability. But some experts are worried 5G could interfere with weather-tracking systems, making weather forecasts as much as 30 percent less accurate. For more, check out this…
Air Force Wants Flying Car
The Air Force wants a flying car to replace the V-22 Osprey aircraft. Agility Prime is the name of a new U.S. Air Force (USAF) project to replace the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft with a combat-ready flying car. According to Defense One, the program will begin this fall as the Air Force tries to tap into…
Real-life Atlantis: Lost continent found
Research has turned up lost continents buried beneath Europe and in the Pacific Ocean, and there may be more. If you don’t recall seeing Greater Adria on a map, there’s a reason for that. It is completely buried — not under the ocean, but beneath southern Europe. About 140 million years ago, the two continents began…
Mysterious ‘bubbles’ discovered at the heart of the Milky Way
The radio-emitting bubbles are near our galaxy’s massive black hole. A pair of enormous “bubbles” have been discovered at the center of the Milky Way. The mysterious structures, joined together in an hourglass-like shape and spewing radio waves, are thought to be the remnants of a vast cosmic explosion that occurred in our galaxy some…
Google discovers major iPhone security flaw
The exploits gave attackers access to photos, location information, private messages and more. Google Project Zero, a group that examines and publishes security and privacy exploits it finds in public software, said on Thursday evening there were huge security holes in iPhone software that existed for two years. The exploits gave attackers access to photos,…
Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6 delivers new Wi-Fi era
Wi-Fi 6 certification is here and marks the next step in delivery of Wi-Fi connectivity. The Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6 certification program from Wi-Fi Alliance is now available and delivers the best user experience with devices based on IEEE 802.11ax. The certification program brings new features and capabilities that enable substantially greater overall Wi-Fi network performance in challenging environments with many…
Bizarre signal in space heard with radio telescope
China’s colossal radio telescope just heard a bizarre signal in space. The science team using FAST detected FRB 121102’s telltale signals on August 29th, hearing “more than a few dozen bursts” of the signal. This particular event was especially significant because no other telescope on Earth has ever detected so many repetitions of the signal…
Explanation may come soon for fast radio bursts
The recent discovery of eight new signals means astronomers may finally have all the clues they need to solve a longstanding mystery. Because FRBs last only a thousandth of a second or so, any object producing them couldn’t be much bigger than 200 miles across — the distance radio waves can cover in that time….