Twitter acknowledged on Friday that a new policy it unveiled this week to protect users from harassment is being abused by malicious actors — days after journalists, left-wing activists and self-described 'sedition hunters' reported their accounts had been locked for sharing publicly available images of anti-maskers, anti-vaccine protesters and suspected... Read more »

Marine creatures and plants typically found in coastal regions have found new ways to survive in the open ocean by colonizing plastic pollution, scientists say.... Read more »

NASA's upcoming Laser Communications Relay Demonstration could revolutionize the way the agency communicates with future missions across the solar system.... Read more »

A total solar eclipse will be seen in Antarctica on Saturday and can be viewed online via a NASA livestream, weather permitting.... Read more »

A deep-sea fish known as a 'football fish' or 'angler fish' washed up on shore in San Diego, California, giving a rare glimpse of the ocean predator.... Read more »

The International Space Station had to adjust its orbit to avoid collision with a piece of debris from a U.S. rocket, the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said on Friday.... Read more »

Police in York Region say they have discovered a new way in which thieves are using Apple technology to track and eventually steal high-end cars in the area.... Read more »

Spacewalking astronauts replaced a broken antenna outside the International Space Station on Thursday after getting NASA's all-clear for orbiting debris.... Read more »

A newly discovered extinct swordfish-shaped marine reptile estimated to be 130 million years old is shedding light on the evolution of ichthyosaurs, ancient marine animals that resemble modern-day swordfish.... Read more »

Metaverse platform companies will have data on where we go, what we look at, who we talk to, and even what we reach out and touch.... Read more »

Enterprises are racing into AI-driven analytics and processes, but there will be a steep learning curve before certain advances are made.... Read more »

Kubernetes container security was a top theme of AWS re:Invent 2021, with announcements from both Amazon Web Services and partners.... Read more »

The survey found four critical decisions that have directly minimized damage and duration during ransomware attacks.... Read more »

On this day 20 years ago, Super Smash Bros. Melee debuted for the GameCube in North America. This is one of my favorite games of all time. I... Read more »

A new report by Honeywell says 46% of known OT cybersecurity threats are poorly detected or not detected at all.... Read more »

At its re:Invent 2021 conference, Amazon announced a slew of new Amazon Web Services features powered by AI and machine learning.... Read more »

Amazon Web Services' top security announcements at AWS re:Invent 2021 included improved cloud vulnerability management and container security.... Read more »

There's growing recognition that AI encodes biases. Efforts are underway to address these while recognizing the challenges.... Read more »

We're in the middle of a digital revolution and are running out of time to make vital changes to weather the upcoming data deprecation storm.... Read more »

Humans are always much smarter than computer AI, as I relearned while playing the pre-alpha multiplayer demo for Company of Heroes 3.... Read more »

Aiven, the company behind a suite of managed and hosted services for open source data infrastructure projects, now supports Apache Flink.... Read more »

The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday sued to block Nvidia's $75 billion takeover of Arm Holdings for antitrust reasons. ... Read more »

The N64 Switch Online service is getting one new game, which is a breakneck pace of support from the publisher.... Read more »

A rarely seen total eclipse of the Sun in Antarctica on December 4 is drawing the attention of an international partnership of scientists who hope to learn more about the effects of such eclipses on space weather. The eclipse begins at 0700 GMT and can only be seen in Antarctica,... Read more »

Rotomolded construction has become a staple in outdoor recreation and exploration via hardwearing, bear-resistant coolers and cargo boxes from the likes of Yeti and Pelican. If there's one thing campers and overlanders want to protect even more than their food and gear supplies, it's their soft, supple, irreplaceable skin. So... Read more »

There may be new hope for people with certain types of blindness, as an experimental sight-restoring device has been deemed safe for implantation. It still has to be tested on humans, though, and it will likely provide a fairly rudimentary form of vision.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, ScienceTags: University of New South... Read more »

ETH Zurich's ANYmal robot was already impressive back when it simply walked on four legs. It got more interesting when wheels were added to those legs, letting it both walk and roll. That wheeled version is now also able to stand up, and could soon be used for urban deliveries.Continue... Read more »

Whether you're an engineer at a recording studio or a musician producing your own tracks on a laptop, you need to be able to hear all the uncolored details. The latest open-back reference headphones from German audio specialist Sennheiser are designed for just that.Continue ReadingCategory: Wearables, TechnologyTags: Headphones, Sennheiser, Studio,... Read more »

Move over Shanghai Tower, a new megatall is under construction that will take your spot as world's second-tallest skyscraper. Rising to an impressive height of 678.9 m (2,227 ft), the Merdeka 118 in Kuala Lumpur has now officially topped out – that is, reached its maximum height – and is... Read more »

T-rex had huge teeth. Raptors sported sharp, scythe-like claws. Triceratops fought with head-mounted horns. The ancient arsenal of dinosaur warfare was varied, and now a brand new weapon has been added to the collection. Paleontologists have discovered a new type of ankylosaur with a tail like a battle axe.Continue ReadingCategory:... Read more »

The messy rebirth of Norton Motorcycles seems back on track under the company's new ownership, India's TVS, and the V4SV superbike is now ready to get its pants off. The V4CR cafe racer stands ready to join the super-naked class as a street weapon.Continue ReadingCategory: Motorcycles, TransportTags: Norton Motorcycle, Naked... Read more »

As Toyota's luxury arm, Lexus quietly has some of the best posh off-roaders on the market in the new Land Cruiser-based LX600 and the Land Cruiser Prado-based GX460. Still, it's not the first automotive brand name that comes to mind when the topic of off-roading comes up, and it falls... Read more »

France's Ascendance has released an updated design and range figure for its long-range, fan-in-wing, eVTOL air taxi. The Atea will use batteries and kerosene for energy storage, but its modular hybrid system will eventually support hydrogen as well.Continue ReadingCategory: Aircraft, TransportTags: Hybrid eVTOLs, eVTOL, Electric Aircraft, Hybrid, Air Taxis, New... Read more »

Physicists at CERN have measured the life of the Higgs boson with greater accuracy than ever before. Since the legendary particle only lives for a tiny fraction a second, the scientists came up with a creative workaround to calculate the new figure.Continue ReadingCategory: Physics, ScienceTags: Higgs boson, Large Hadron Collider,... Read more »

A new meta-study, led by researchers from the University of Sydney’s Lambert Initiative, has concluded blood or saliva THC concentrations are not effective ways to measure cannabis-induced driving impairment. The findings suggest the need for more nuanced impairment tests to be developed instead of working towards some kind of roadside... Read more »

Already highly experienced at upfitting the Volkswagen Grand California camper van into various grades of aggressive off-road mayhem machine, Germany's Stone Offroad Design (SOD) super-sizes its all-terrain camper game with the new Rise 4x4. The unique adventure motorhome tasks a Mercedes-Benz Unimog with carrying a sleek, pop-up four-person mini-apartment to... Read more »

Autonomous aerial delivery drones do potentially risk getting caught in branches, losing their way, or falling onto people's heads. That's where the Coco 1 comes in, as it's a ground-based delivery robot that is entirely remotely controlled.Continue ReadingCategory: Robotics, TechnologyTags: Delivery drone, Remote Control... Read more »