Month: September 2019

I saw a clip of this movie on one of the late shows and was thoroughly impressed. Martin Scorsese’s long-awaited mob movie “The Irishman” is a decades-long epic that uses de-aging visual effects on the film’s stars — Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Al Pacino. The latest Mach at the Movies looks at how…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…