Battery testing equipment at the National Renewable Energy Lab in Colorado in 2020. Dennis Schroeder / NREL Almost exactly 32 years ago, in October of 1990, scientists shoved off on an ambitious project to map the human genome—an ultimately successful initiative that involved sequencing the DNA that makes us who we are. It wrapped up…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Elon Musk’s on-again off-again plan to buy Twitter is on track to culminate in the billionaire taking control of the company this week. Musk is expected to close the deal by Friday, October 28, putting him officially in charge of one of the most prominent social networks in the world. Musk reportedly informed bankers of…
It’s been four years to the day since Microsoft closed its acquisition of GitHub, which at the time was mostly a code repository. Today’s GitHub looks quite a bit different, now that it added CI/CD tools with GitHub Actions and Codespaces as an online editor and compute platform, as well as various security tools and…
Argo AI, an autonomous vehicle startup that burst on the scene in 2017 stacked with a $1 billion investment, is shutting down — its parts being absorbed into its two main backers: Ford and VW, according to people familiar with the matter. During an all-hands meeting Wednesday, Argo AI employees were told that some people…
Huge news for the kids who grew up gaming: There are some cognitive benefits associated with children who play video games. Children who played video games showed “enhanced cognitive performance” in comparison to children who did not play video games, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), a…
A well-known ransomware operator has been targeting schools in the United States, using a signature move of ransomware payload swapping, experts have claimed. A report from Microsoft researchers claim to have observed Vice Society switch up ransomware payloads in attacks against schools in the US between July and October this year. The company’s latest cybersecurity…
Amazon has added one more payment type for users to pick at the checkout just in time for Black Friday. In an announcement by parent company PayPal, Venmo shared the news of its new partnership with Amazon, which would see it being added as a payment method to Amazon.com website and Amazon mobile app users…
Graffiti artist Kbmerone walks us through his process for spray painting a manga-themed Mazda RX-7. The process involves using multiple colors of high quality spray paint and paint pens. The artist’s expertise in paint shading and accented body lines give the car its cartoon look. Following is a transcript of the video. Kyle Montero: Whenever…
Evan Spiegel and Mark Zuckerberg Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch and David Ramos/Getty Images Evan Spiegel dissed the metaverse, calling it the “last thing” he’d want to do after a long work day. Snap has chosen to AR projects instead of VR, which the CEO calls “more immersive.” Mark Zuckerberg has spent billions on his…
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captured this image of the Earth and the moon from a distance of 890,000 miles, on October 13, 2022. NASA/Goddard/SwRI A new photo from NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captures Earth and the moon together — a rare sight. The image reveals the vast space between us and the moon. About 30 Earths could…