Dusty InSight posing for a final selfie on April 24, 2022, the 1,211th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. NASA/JPL-Caltech One of NASA’s finest Martian missions is giving up the ghost. After four years of captivating scientific exploration, NASA’s Insight Mars Lander is entering its final days of operation. Losing power as thick layers…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Google today announced it’s expanding its user choice billing pilot, which allows Android app developers to use other payment systems besides Google’s own. The program will now become available to new markets, including the U.S., Brazil and South Africa, and Bumble will now join Spotify as one of the pilot testers. Google additionally announced Spotify…
Last year, OpenAI announced the OpenAI Startup Fund, a tranche through which it and its partners, including Microsoft, are investing in early-stage AI companies tackling major problems. Mum’s been the word since on which companies have received infusions from the Fund. But today, the OpenAI Startup Fund revealed that it led a $23.5 million investment…
Syneroid recently raised a $500,000 round of funding to bring something halfway between microchips and dog collars to market. The company is finding some interesting slices of the market, but the deck, overall, leaves a few things to be desired. We learn more from mistakes than from perfection, so I figured it’d be a great…
Twitter’s painstakingly layered infosphere looks to be light-speeding back to chaotic noise under new owner Elon Musk. The billionaire is no fan of meritocratic signals nor, it seems, a friend to genuine information — preferring anyone pay him $8/m to have their account on his microblogging social network badged with a check-mark that looks like…
The fun’s over, folks. I’ve had a verified checkmark on Twitter for approximately six years. Theoretically, it’s because I’m a journalist. In reality, it’s because you used to be able to openly apply for one, and I did that while I was just an intern at another website. I didn’t expect to get it, but…
Check out these top iPad deals, available as of Nov. 10: iPad Pro (Wi-Fi, 128GB) — $749.00 $799.00 (save $50) iPad Pro (Wi-Fi + Cellular, 1TB) — $1,629.00 $1,699.00 (save $70) Turns out, the original tablet is still the king of tablets. Now in its 4th generation, the Apple iPad Pro is the most powerful…
Early Black Friday deals are dropping early, and we’ve just spotted the top-rated Beats Studio Buds on sale for just $99.99 (was $149.95) at Amazon. That’s just $10 more than the record-low price and an incredible deal for a premium pair of noise-canceling earbuds. The Beats Studio Buds deliver a powerful, balanced sound with dynamic…
In space, no one can hear you scream, but everyone aboard the Skeld 2 probably can when you’re brutally murdered by an Impostor in Among Us VR. While Innersloth, Schell Games, and Robot Teddy’s reimagining of the hit game doesn’t reinvent the wheel, Among Us VR doesn’t need to. Instead, the shift to immersive 3D…
Cybersecurity researchers from Check Point Research (CPR) have discovered a new malicious package on PyPI, the code repository for the Python programming language which uses an image to deliver a Trojan malware, largely using GitHub. The threat actors behind this new campaign hope that while searching the web for legitimate projects, Python developers will, sooner…