Air taxi startup Wisk Aero unveiled its sixth-generation aircraft, an all-electric four-seater that can fly without a human pilot. The Boeing-backed company said it will seek approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to carry passengers as part of a commercial air taxi service. Wisk, which was formed in 2019 as a joint venture between Boeing…
A downed electricity pole on September 20, 2022 in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. Over one million people were impacted by electricity outages two days after Hurricane Fiona struck the nation. Jose Jimenez/Getty Images Its lights outs for Puerto Rico, again. After dealing with devastation to the electric grid from Hurricane Maria five years ago, the…
Anyone who’s ventured a few inches south of YouTube’s video player can attest to what a wasteland the comment section is. Amid the stale jokes and thinly veiled hate speech is another blight on the landscape: spam comments. These spammers, who tend to swarm popular and finance-focused channels like plagues of locusts, hawking vague entrepreneurial…
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Svante Pääbo “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution,” according to the organisation. The prestigious award was announced by the the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden on Monday. Pääbo’s research into ancient genes and the establishment of…
Ah, 2022. Cryptocurrency’s first full year in the mainstream…and it was an unmitigated disaster. But even amid crypto’s biggest crash yet, the scams flourished. And while the value of cryptocurrency stolen is stunning, not everything is solely about the money. Last year, Mashable looked into the biggest crypto scams of 2021. Yes, some big bucks…
A PS5 remaster of Horizon Zero Dawn is currently in development alongside a new multiplayer game in the series, according to a fresh leak. Horizon Zero Dawn is being upgraded for the PS5, although no launch date is currently known. The remaster will include improved visuals that bring the graphics of the five-year-old PS4 game…
Windows 11 finally brings back the ability to right-click on the Taskbar to enable Task Manager, without having to press CTRL + ALT + DELETE, alongside some widget improvements that had been announced previously. This is part of the Insider Program, where users can sign up to try out new features that could arrive in…
It seems as blockchain developers and artists are not the only ones Lazarus Group targets with fake job offers. Aerospace experts and political journalists in Europe have also been recently targeted with the same form of social engineering attacks, with the same goal – corporate espionage and data exfiltration from business devices. What makes this…
We’re just days away from the launch of Intel’s new Arc desktop graphics cards, the A770 and A750, with a release date of October 12 to cheekily coincide with Nvidia’s RTX 4090 launch. It’s also the date of Microsoft’s Surface showcase, Google’s Cloud Next event, and Amazon Prime Day 2. If you need me that…
Credit Suisse shares fell Monday as investors fretted about the bank’s potential collapse. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images) Credit Suisse shares fell 7.8% in early-morning trading on Monday. Markets are fretting about the Swiss bank collapsing ahead of restructuring plans. Credit Suisse executives spent the weekend trying to reassure large clients about the bank’s health, according to…