Court declined preliminary injunction in case brought by scientists seeking to halt purge of more than 1,600 grants The Trump administration can go ahead and purge more than 1,600 research grants issued by National Science Foundation (NSF) worth more than $1bn, after a judge declined to grant a preliminary injunction...
Octopuses prefer to use different arms for different tasks, scientists find
Creatures favour front arms for most tasks, study suggests, despite fact all eight arms are capable of all actions While some humans find they have two left feet on the dancefloor, octopuses manage to coordinate eight highly flexible arms across a host of behaviours, from foraging to den-building, or moving...
Interstellar overhype: Nasa debunks claim about alien-made comet
Nasa dismisses theory by Harvard astronomer who suggested an object from beyond the solar system could be a relic from a distant civilization Skywatchers at Nasa have discounted a Harvard astronomer’s hypothesis that a rare interstellar object hurtling through our solar system is a relic from a civilization in another...
Whistleblowers tell US Senate that Meta ignored child safety in virtual reality
Two former Meta employees allege that the company ignored child safety in its multibillion-dollar metaverse investment and erased evidence instead of addressing the problem. They testified about these claims this week before the US Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy and Technology. Read Entire Article
Court rejects Verizon claim that selling location data without consent is legal
In April 2024, the Federal Communications Commission imposed nearly $200 million in fines on several major wireless carriers, including Verizon Communications, for selling access to sensitive location data to third-party aggregators. These aggregators, in turn, provided the information to unauthorized parties, including bounty hunters and bail-bond companies, putting consumers at......
Apple A19 Pro’s single-core benchmarks beat the Snapdragon 8 Elite and Ryzen 9 9950X
Starting with the A19 Pro, Apple's flagship SoC in the iPhone 17 Pro Max scored 3,895 points in the single-core test and 9,746 points in the multi-core test on Geekbench 6. These figures represent a 10 – 15 percent improvement over the A18 Pro's 3,479 single-core and 8,568 multi-core scores....
New electric car battery could last 600,000 miles and recharge in minutes
The Shenxing Pro Super Long Life & Long Range Battery is said to offer up to 758 km of range per charge (around 471 miles) and is based on the Worldwide Harmonized Light Vehicles Test Procedure. It is worth noting that WLTP estimates differ from what the EPA uses in...
Microsoft urges customers to prepare for VBScript deprecation in their Office VBA macros
Microsoft first announced plans to retire the Visual Basic Scripting language in 2023, giving developers and organizations ample time to prepare. The company is now reiterating that VBScript deprecation is imminent, which could significantly affect custom automation solutions integrated with Office applications. Read Entire Article
Spotify rolls out long-promised lossless streaming to Premium subscribers
Speculation about a Spotify HiFi tier began nearly a decade ago, and in early 2021 the company pledged that lossless streaming would arrive "later this year." By mid-2024, internal interface leaks suggested it was nearly ready... only for more delays to follow. That history left many Premium users skeptical when......
“DNA cassette tape” can store every song ever recorded with petabytes to spare
While practical DNA storage remains elusive, a team of Chinese researchers has developed a DNA cassette tape that could theoretically store every music track ever recorded. Xingyu Jiang, a professor of biomedical engineering at the Southern University of Science and Technology in Guangdong, China, collaborated with a colleague to combine......