When a spacecraft dramatically parachutes down to a distant world, debris will inevitably litter the landing site. NASA has documented the diverse debris scattered by the 2021 landing of its high-tech Perseverance rover, including a strange-looking ball of tangled, “spaghetti”-like material, which the space agency believes they’ve identified. “It should be noted that discarded debris…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Don’t let the name fool you. Whale sharks are not whales. They are sharks. And they’re the largest fish species on the planet. They can grow as long as a city bus. What’s more, scientists recently concluded that whale sharks — which have unique polka dots on their bodies akin to fingerprints — are the biggest…
The blast was astonishing. When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted on Jan. 15, it sent shock waves around the planet. The imagery awed earth scientists. And now, researchers have found the eruption pumped enough water vapor into the atmosphere to fill a whopping 58,000 swimming pools — an amount never before observed. The water…
AMD’s Ryzen 7000 processors are set to arrive on September 15, and that’s a hard on-sale date – meaning the CPUs will be on shelves, and in plentiful quantities, if fresh whisperings from the grapevine prove to be correct. This comes from YouTuber Moore’s Law is Dead (MLID), who claims that AMD will actually have…
A lot is happening over at Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) right now. The company’s newly anointed top brass are canning major movies and TV shows en masse – irrespective of their cost (Batgirl) or critical reception (Gordita Chronicles) – while the threat of mass layoffs looms gloomily over those who work for its streaming divisions….
The next eagerly awaited Samsung Unpacked event is scheduled for August 10, with the Galaxy Z Fold 4, the Galaxy Z Flip 4, the Galaxy Watch 5, the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro, and the Galaxy Buds 2 Pro on the agenda – and we now have an early look at all of that hardware. Over…
Valve continues to expand the range of controllers that can be used with Steam by adding support for Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons as part of the newest beta update. Nintendo Switch Joy-Con support is at the top of the very short list of changes in the Steam Client Beta community update post for August. Not only…
Former first lady Melania Trump and Hervé Pierre Braillard stand alongside the gown she wore to the 2017 inaugural balls. SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images Trump’s Save America PAC paid Melania’s stylist $60,000, per FEC records. Hervé Pierre Braillard, a French-American designer, has styled Melania for several years. FEC records show that the payments were…
The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate is over half a percentage point lower now than it was two weeks ago. Rates have been volatile in recent weeks, but have generally trended down as markets prepare for a possible recession. The Federal Reserve has been raising the federal funds rate to try to tame inflation, and…
American Airlines aircraft. Steven Senne/AP Alexis Westergren was told by the airline she could not pick up her child from Chicago airport. American had incorrect names and cell numbers listed as the child’s contacts in its system. The airline eventually let her take daughter home after she gave the father’s correct cell number. American Airlines…