Microsoft announces Windows 11
Today, Microsoft unveiled Windows 11. You can watch the 45-minute presentation here.
Peloton Flaw Allows Hackers to Watch Users
Yikes…a Peloton flaw allows hackers to watch users. A new development regarding Peloton will have users thinking twice before mounting the workout machine. Users of Peloton’s Bike+ have been warned of a security threat which could allow hackers to control the touchscreen, steal information and even watch the user. To see more, check out this…
Voilà AI Artist app concerns
What happens to all those images once uploaded to the web? Povolny also noted that while people usually know of the risks associated with using apps that collect data, and specifically photos, they don’t always realize the full impacts of how that data might be used in the future. For more, check out this USA…
Mysterious, Giant ‘Blinking’ Object Has Been Detected Near Our Galaxy’s Center
There’s something strange near our galaxy’s center. Some 25,000 light-years from Earth, astronomers have found a weird star that almost blinked out of existence for several months before reappearing. For more, check out this Science Alert story.
Earth’s core is growing ‘lopsided’ and scientists don’t know why
There’s a mystery brewing at the center of the Earth. using computer simulations of the core’s growth over the last billion years, a new study in the June 3 issue of Nature Geoscience offers a solution that finally seems to fit: Every year, little by little, Earth’s inner core is growing in a “lopsided” pattern,…
Meteorites appear to come from a single, unknown source
According to a recent study, meteorites appear to come from a single, unknown source. The research looked at more than 500 million years worth of marine sedimentary rock containing meteorites, examining 15 different windows of time and found that all originate in the asteroid belt, but it’s unclear where in the asteroid belt they’re coming…
SK hynix claims its HBM3 is capable of 665MB/s bandwidth
Speed…we just can’t seem to get enough! On a product page outlining its 16Gb HBM2E, SK hynix has provided some insight into the attractions of HBM3, the next HBM standard. It says that SK hynix HBM3 is currently under development and “will be capable of processing more than 665GB of data per second at 5.2Gbps…
Global internet outage knocks out Amazon, Reddit, Google, Instagram, Twitter
Major outage this morning. DownDetector, a site that tracks website outages, reported that a long list of sites, which also included Zoom, Youtube, Instagram, Twitter, Hulu, Spotify, Etsy and Paypal, started experiencing problems just after 5:30 a.m. EDT Tuesday. The outage may be linked to Fastly, a cloud platform that powers websites such as The…
FDA approves much-debated Alzheimer’s drug developed by Biogen
After reading this article, I wonder if it is a victory for Alzheimer patients. Government health officials on Monday approved the first new drug for Alzheimer’s disease in nearly 20 years, disregarding warnings from independent advisers that the much-debated treatment hasn’t been shown to help slow the brain-destroying disease. For more, check out this Philly…
Phenomenal explosion in space captured
The explosion happened one billion light years away, which is incredibly close to the Earth by cosmic standards. A phenomenal cosmic explosion of gamma radiation from a collapsing star has been captured by scientists in Nambia. The gamma-ray burst (GRB) was captured by the High Energy Stereoscopic System on 29 August 2019, after the Fermi…