YouTube today announced that it has begun rolling out picture-in-picture support for all iOS users in the United States, allowing iPhone and iPad owners to close the YouTube app when watching a video and continue to view the content in a small pop-up window while doing other things on their devices. Picture-in-picture support has previously…
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Despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s rejection of the petition in American Axle v. Neapco just a few days earlier, inventor David Tropp on July 5 again asked the Court to unravel U.S. patent eligibility law. Tropp, who owns two patents relating to luggage lock technology that enables airport screening of luggage while still allowing the…
The Hubble Space Telescope, still going strong after more than 30 years in space. | Image: NASA A stellar showdown Continue reading… Read More
Enlarge / Jabra’s Elite 45h on-ear headphones may be the best value deal on headphones this Prime Day. Amazon’s Prime Day sale is underway, and we’re rounding up all the best deals we can find. While the event’s tens of thousands of discounts include a lot of junk, we’re still seeing a handful of discounts for…
Enlarge / Artist’s interpretation of Sonic fans’ impatience over a recent game’s lack of updates and patches. (credit: Sega / Sam Machkovech) Three weeks after its launch on modern consoles and PCs, the retro gaming collection Sonic Origins has continued coming under fire from various fans and critics, each uncovering issues that range from nitpicky…
Enlarge / Artist’s rendering of a T cell. (credit: Getty Images) One of the adaptive immune system’s primary jobs is recognizing foreign substances in our bodies and unceremoniously rejecting them by eliciting inflammation. So the fact that it lets about 100 grams of assorted foreign animal and plant proteins pass through our digestive systems every…
Another CEO is stepping back from the company he launched. This time, it’s famed serial entrepreneur Ev Williams, who said today that he is relinquishing his full-time role with Medium, an online platform that hoped to transform publishing on the internet by giving anyone with an interest in writing a space to do it in…
Overexploitation for monetary gains has brought us to the biodiversity crisis, according to new report. Andre Cook on Pexels Putting a price tag on necessities will always be a challenge. The climate crisis has shown us over and over how we struggle to estimate the actual worth of a product—whether it’s a cheap plastic bottle…
It’s hard not to feel for Peloton’s new leadership. The team has the harrowing task of attempting to right the ship following explosive growth and a subsequent messy crash back down to Earth. The reasons for the home exercise firm’s struggles are numerous, including some overly ambitious plans set at the height of the company’s…
NASA has just revealed the James Webb Space Telescope’s first set of images, from an awe-inspiring deep field of galaxies to a minute characterization of a distant exoplanet’s atmosphere. But how does a spacecraft a million miles away get dozens of gigabytes of data back to Earth? First let’s talk about the images themselves. These…