Here’s what it was like watching a total solar eclipse 90 minutes north of Madrid. DURATÓN, Spain—I’ll say it: I’m hooked. Standing in the shadow of the Moon is one of the rarest opportunities to directly sense the mechanics of our Solar System, when the dance between three celestial…
Petlibro says feeders perform scheduled feedings offline. Users report otherwise. Petlibro founder and CEO York Wu provided more information about an outage that left users unable to control their smart pet feeders through the companion app and, in some reported cases, left them with hungry pets. Petlibro, a company…
The Gasolini AR1 uses 2-cylinder Honda bike engine, and an EV is underway, too. This past weekend saw Monterey Car Week at perhaps its most excessive ever. The auctions set records, including $42.9 million for one of six Shelby Daytona Coupes and $40 million for Ferrari’s first Luce electric…
Filing comes after Elon Musk announced exclusive arrangement to kit out its data centers. Nvidia has disclosed that it owns nearly 123 million shares in SpaceX, further highlighting the chipmaker’s entangled financial relationships with some of its biggest customers. The $5.5 trillion company owned SpaceX stock worth nearly $21 billion at…
“It highlights the brutality of medieval warfare,” said paleopathologist Jo Buckberry. During a medieval siege, a trebuchet scored a chance hit on an unlucky defender. A small boulder slammed into his upper back at close to 300 kilometers an hour, smashing bones and crushing him beneath its weight. The…
Regulations reduced prenatal exposure to harmful emissions, but wildfire smoke is erasing gains. In 1965, a presidential advisory panel issued a report warning that pervasive chemical and carbon pollution was harming environmental health and changing the climate. Five years later, President Richard Nixon signed the Clean Air Act. Since…
Utility-scale solar leads by a mile, followed by batteries. Fossil fuels, not so much. It’s been a wild first half of the year in the US power sector, with announcements of gigantic natural gas power plants and some long-awaited renewable energy projects coming online. At times of rapid change,…
Screen-sharing bug lets remote hackers log in without a password. Dutch officials have warned that a high-severity macOS vulnerability that allows attackers to execute malicious code is under active exploitation. “The NCSC has received a notification indicating that active abuse of this vulnerability has been observed on multiple systems…
Airline-backed venture aims to develop a hybrid-electric commercial aircraft. The first flight of the largest battery-electric aircraft to take to the skies lasted nearly half an hour while costing just $5 of electricity. That aviation feat comes at a time when jet fuel prices have skyrocketed because of the…
“We don’t have access to the data on the hardware/servers,” Iron Mountain told Ars. After its cloud storage provider went defunct, a PBS affiliate decided to sue a data center provider to regain access to 50TB of TV shows, videos, and other data dating back 70 years. As reported…
