Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Disney has announced that a new Disney Plus app is now available globally for Sony’s PlayStation 5. Unlike the previous version, which was just a PS4 app running on the newer console, the new software is designed natively for PS5. The key difference for viewers is that Disney…
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Researchers at Kaspersky have found malware hidden in a modified version of the anonymity-preserving Tor Browser, distributed in a way that specifically targets users in China. According to details published in a blog post on Tuesday, the malware campaign reaches unsuspecting users through a Chinese-language YouTube video about…
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge The Facebook Oversight Board announced Tuesday that it was reviewing a company decision to remove a post calling for the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the wake of nationwide protests in the country. In its Tuesday announcement, the board describes the July post as…
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Enlarge / An Atlas V rocket launches the GOES-T mission for NASA’s Launch Services Program on March 1, 2022. (credit: ULA) On Friday NASA closed the bidding process to select a launch vehicle for an upcoming Earth science mission to measure changes in sea level, Sentinel-6B. The mission is expected to launch into low Earth…
Enlarge (credit: Juan Gaertner / Getty Images) There’s a video that’s shown in almost every introductory neuroscience course. It doesn’t look like much—a bar of light shifting and rotating across a black screen while the background audio pops and crackles like the sound of a faraway fireworks show. Dry stuff, until you learn that the…
An illustration of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. Deposit Photos Just off of the western coast of Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula lies the 12 mile deep, 6.2 mile wide Chicxulub crater. The 66 million year-old impact crater is the site where a massive asteroid struck the Earth, wiping out the dinosaurs and about three…
Stack Commerce We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. There is no shortage of exciting things in the world of air travel, but one thing that may not excite people is how expensive it can be. Sometimes flying can seem like an elusive dream with the…
Stack Commerce We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Between obligations and to-do lists, life can run low on time to settle in for some quality reading. While you may not have the ability to power through a novel in a matter of days right now,…
Xiaomi just launched the 12T Pro, a flagship with a 200-megapixel main camera. The company is using Samsung’s HP1 sensor with a base pixel size of 0.64μm and f/1.69 aperture. The sensor, which was launched last year, uses pixel binning in different ways: it can combine 16 pixels to produce a 12.5-megapixel image (2.56μm pixel…