Month: August 2021

The latest massive climate report paints a bleak future. In a summer of unprecedented heat waves, wildfires, floods, and all the attendant death and suffering that’s come with them, the world’s leading climate scientists have issued their starkest warning yet. Humanity’s influence on the climate is “unequivocal,” the report warns, before going on to list…

Games Radar has posted a good article discussing TV display options. This forest of acronyms might seem impenetrable, but each one is important as each indicates very different attributes and characteristics from another. Despite most new TVs appearing much the same, both in appearance and specification, different panel technologies have their own pros and cons,…

It might be stranger than you think. That lack of symmetry comes from the sun’s movement through the Milky Way, as it experiences friction with the galactic radiation in front of it and clears out a space in its wake. “There’s a lot of plasma [charged particles] in the interstellar medium, and… the inner heliosphere,…

USA Today posted an article about privacy settings on Amazon. This tip always catches people off guard. As an Amazon customer, you have a profile visible to other Amazon users, created automatically. For details, see this USA Today story.

A massive gamma-ray blast… A massive gamma-ray blast more than a billion light years from Earth is the largest explosion in the Universe ever detected and recorded by astronomers. The explosive event was the death of a star and the start of its transformation into a black hole, according to experts from the German Electron…