Monthly Archives: October 2022

Angry Miao’s new anime-inspired keyboard has an amazing design and an irritating flaw

The multi-color anodized and sandblasted finish on this keyboard is quite a sight to behold in person. Angry Miao’s new anime-inspired keyboard with user-adjustable stiffness is made by sickos, for sickos, and it instantly made me want to bust out my Master Grade Gundam model kits from the early aughts and get painting. But sometimes,…

To set the record straight: Nothing can break the speed of light

Gamma-ray bursts (like the one in this illustration) from distant exploding galaxies transmit more powerful light than the visible wavelengths we see. But that doesn’t mean they’re faster. NASA, ESA and M. Kornmesser Back in 2018, astronomers examining the ruins of two collided neutron stars in Hubble Space Telescope images noticed something peculiar: a stream…

Hackers steal 50GB data, thousands of emails from Iranian nuclear facilities

The Iranian Atomic Energy Agency has suffered a data breach that reportedly saw thousands of emails leaked – however both the agency, and the group apparently behind the attack, have their own versions of events. Reports say the attackers breached an email server belonging to one of the agency’s subsidiaries, accessed 324 inboxes, and stole…

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel’s fortune plunged from almost $14 billion to $2.3 billion in just a year as Snapchat struggles for new users

Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch Evan Spiegel has lost 83% of his wealth over the past year, per estimates by Bloomberg. The Snap cofounder and CEO’s net worth fell from $13.9 billion to $2.3 billion. Snap posted a quarterly net loss of $360 million amid advertising struggles and stagnating user growth. Snap cofounder and CEO…

20 crew members supply Roman Abramovich’s $600 million superyacht with provisions, electricity, and water every day as the Ukraine war wages on, report says

Roman Abramovich next to a picture of his superyacht, Solaris, in Porto Montenegro on March 12. Marc Atkins/Filip Filipovic/Getty Images A crew supplies Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich’s yacht on a daily basis, a worker told the NYT. Solaris has a truckload of food delivered every week by a catering company, the port worker said. The…