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Monthly Archives: November 2022
Black Friday has plenty of worthy deals that don’t cost a grip. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge With all the deals, discounts, and promotions running around, it can be awfully tempting to spend a mint over Black Friday and Cyber Monday. But for those trying to stay thrifty and keep…
Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Now that Elon Musk has let us know that he’s totally done with his moderation council myth, he’s put up a new poll asking users if he should let most suspended accounts back onto the site. On Wednesday, he asked: “Should Twitter offer a general amnesty to suspended…
Enlarge / Microsoft’s newest ugly sweater is Clippy- and Office-themed. (credit: Microsoft) I’m not always a fan of corporate whimsy—like when brands’ Twitter accounts have “attitude” or when companies put together cringe-worthy April Fools’ Day pranks—but I do enjoy Microsoft’s now-yearly tradition of releasing ugly sweaters with retro Windows patterns printed on them. Two years…
You’ll be prompted to consider this option if you try to contact emergency services but are unable to. [credit: Apple ] As previously promised, Apple’s Emergency SOS-via-satellite service launched in the US and Canada on Tuesday. The service allows owners of Apple’s newest iPhones to contact emergency services or share their location and status with…
Enlarge / Then-CEO of FTX Sam Bankman-Fried speaks during a House Committee on Financial Services hearing on December 08, 2021 in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty Images | The Washington Post) FTX co-founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried ran the failed cryptocurrency exchange as his “personal fiefdom” and many of its assets have disappeared, an FTX…
Enlarge / The jets of material ejected from around black holes can be enormous. (credit: NASA, ESA) Active galactic nuclei, powered by the supermassive black holes they contain, are the brightest objects in the Universe. The light originates from jets of material hurled out at nearly the speed of light by the environment around the…
This illustration shows the IXPE spacecraft, at right, observing blazar Markarian 501, at left. A blazar is a black hole surrounded by a disk of gas and dust with a bright jet of high-energy particles pointed toward Earth. The inset illustration shows high-energy particles in the jet (blue). Pablo Garcia (NASA/MSFC) Some 450 million light-years…
The long, steep slope known as an escarpment, or scarp, along the delta in Mars’ Jezero Crater that the science team of NASA’s Perseverance rover mission refers to as Scarp A. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS In February 2021, the Perseverance rover reached a crater that was once a river delta on Mars. The 10 foot-long rover with seven…
Many startups are overvalued. But because they are also well-stocked with cash, they haven’t had to raise new funding at a lower or flat valuation — yet. However, new data from Carta found that cracks are starting to show. Startup equity infrastructure platform Carta found that a record number of startup employee stock grants — which…