This year’s ugly Microsoft sweater has a suggestion for you: It’s Clippy

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…

Apple’s satellite emergency service launches in the US and Canada

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…

Founder ran FTX as “personal fiefdom”; many assets stolen or missing, court hears

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…

Astronomers now know how supermassive black holes blast us with energy

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…