Mass extinction event 260 million years ago resulted from climate change, studies say
Enlarge / Artist’s depiction of two dinocephalians, a group of land animals that died out in the Captitanian extinction(s). (credit: Dmitry Bogdanov: DiBgd at English Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0) The…
Black Hole Starships, Energy and Weapons
Very advanced civilizations could graduate from using regular stars for power and use black holes. Manufacturing of antimatter is hugely energy-inefficient, and antimatter is difficult to contain. The process of…
Rivian CEO: ‘There’s far too much greenwashing in the system’
Photo by Mitchell Clark / The Verge Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe is fed up with companies exaggerating their environmental credentials. “There’s far too much greenwashing in the system,” he said…
The Exorcist: Believer looks like a hellish double feature in first trailer
Lidya Jewett as Angela Fielding and Olivia Marcum as Katherine. Though Warner Bros.’ 1973 adaptation of The Exorcist is an iconic piece of horror cinema, none of the studio’s subsequent…
Three new Starfield animated shorts offer more glimpses of Bethesda’s new universe
Image: Bethesda Game Studios Starfield will be released in just over a month, and on Tuesday, developer Bethesda Game Studios released three animated shorts as part of a new anthology…
Climatologists: July’s intense heat “exactly what we expected to see”
Enlarge / A billboard in Phoenix, Ariz. displays the temperature on July 18, 2023 during an unprecedented string of days with high temperatures above 110° F. (credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP…
Encryption-breaking, password-leaking bug in many AMD CPUs could take months to fix
Enlarge (credit: AMD) A recently disclosed bug in many of AMD’s recent consumer, workstation, and server processors can cause the chips to leak data at a rate of up to…
Android 4.4 KitKat is truly dead, loses Play Services support
(credit: Google) The Android ecosystem rightfully gets a lot of slack for being unable to deliver operating system updates to everyone in a timely manner, but there’s more to Android…
The Evolution of ‘Woke’
The notion of being “woke” emerged from black activism, aimed at raising awareness of ongoing racial injustices that society ignores or downplays. This impulse arose from noble instincts of social…
Why Zero Knowledge Proofs (ZKP) Are the Future of Blockchain Privacy
As with many technologies, zero knowledge proofs (ZKPs) are easy to understand at a high level but hard to master on a fundamental one. It’s a bit like knowing that…