One does not simply buy the One Ring — unless you’re Post Malone
Image: Brook Trafton / TikTok [In her best Cate Blanchett impression] The world is changed. It began with the forging of the great IP crossover between Magic: The Gathering and…
Infrared light reveals hidden portrait beneath 1943 René Magritte painting
Enlarge / Infrared reflectography revealed an underpainting beneath René Magritte’s La Cinquième Saison (1943). (credit: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels) Researchers at the Royal Museums of Fine…
Some shops will let you buy more than one Raspberry Pi at a time again
Enlarge / Pis at the factory. (credit: Raspberry Pi) Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton has been saying for months that 2023 would be a “recovery year” for Raspberry Pi supply—the…
Berkeley Lab Researcher Explains Simulation Shows Interesting Properties Possible But Does Not Prove LK99
Sinéad Griffin, Berkeley Lab researcher, published the simulation of LK99 paper. The paper did *not* prove nor give evidence of superconductivity in Cu-apatite. It showed interesting structural and electronic properties…
The WGA and the AMPTP are having their first meeting since the writing strike began
Image: The Writers Guild of America Though it won’t necessarily lead to an immediate end to Hollywood’s ongoing writing strike, the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion…
We might be waiting awhile for the next version of AirTags
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple first launched its AirTags trackers in April 2021, but if you’re waiting to get one until a second generation is released, you…
Myocarditis Heart Damage in 1 Out of 35 Covid Vaccinations
Sex-specific differences in myocardial injury incidence after COVID-19 mRNA-1273 Booster Vaccination. Among 777 participants, median age 37 years, 69.5% women, 40 participants had elevated hs-cTnT concentration on day 3 and…
Glass Nanolattice Structures Four Times Strength but Five Times Lower in Density than Steel
By building a structure out of DNA and then coating it with glass, a research team led by Oleg Gang has created a very strong material with very low density.Gang…
What to do when you need to send a fax
If I asked you the last time you actually had to fax something to someone, odds are you’d stare at me as if I was asking about the last time…
Reddit is closing r/Place ‘until we meet again’
Here’s Reddit’s final version of the 2023 canvas before it allowed users to white it out. | Image: Reddit Reddit no longer allows posts or comments on the r/Place subreddit,…