A new model suggests Mars may host ice-forming physics never directly observed before. Every morning during the Martian spring and summer, a thin and extremely long cloud emerges, only to disappear again. The wispy formation appears near the volcano Arsia Mons and gradually elongates until it reaches over 1,000…
The tiny remains of the Laurentide Ice Sheet began getting somewhat less tiny. Barnes Ice Cap sits on the central plateau of Baffin Island, in the Canadian Arctic. It is the last surviving fragment of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, the largest of the Pleistocene ice sheets, which at its…
Turning on Personal Intelligence gives the company more data for ad targeting. Using Google’s products and services has always been fundamentally precarious—doing so gives the world’s largest advertising company a lot of juicy personal data. Google has long said it won’t use the sensitive data from products like Gmail,…
Space Force considering options: public-private, federal installation, state land. Leaders in the US Space Force would like to have a new spaceport up and running in four years, adding a third heavy-lift launch site to relieve pressure from bases in Florida and California that have shot rockets into orbit…
If you share Spotify sub with family, you may need to scan QR code to prove it. As reported by Music Business Worldwide, Spotify appears to be stepping up enforcement of existing policies regarding Family and Duo subscription plans by requiring users to scan a QR code in person…
Birds’ compact nervous system seems to help them handle tasks very quickly. Much of what we know about how a brain makes decisions comes from studying monkeys watching dots. In a task known as a random-dot-motion task, a cloud of flickering specks drifts weakly in one direction while the…
Company says foreign-made robotic vehicles are crucial to US chip production. US chip champion Intel was so confused by the US government ban on foreign-made robots that it requested and received a waiver “out of an abundance of caution.” The tech company wanted to make sure that it could…
Sound designer lets Half Life-related codename slip at a conference. Gamers still hoping against hope for a true follow-up to Half-Life 2 (after so, so many years) may remember last year’s flurry of speculation that Half-Life 3 was finally nearing completion. Amid all those rumors, though, we never got…
Ukraine has changed drone and war-fighting tech to reduce reliance on Starlink. Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite service has played a pivotal role in supporting Ukraine’s successful resistance to Russia’s full-scale invasion for years. But with Starlink having become increasingly unreliable due to Musk’s political inclinations and the latest surprise…
“Userland” exploit relies on integer overflow found in “SmileBasic” interpreter. A security researcher has demonstrated a software-only partial jailbreak of the Switch 2, gaining “userland” access that he says “lets us run homebrew, reverse engineer and mod Switch 2 games, back up save files off the Switch, and access…
