A Meteorite Crashed Through Somebody"s Ceiling and Landed on Their Bed
The New York Times reports: Ruth Hamilton was fast asleep in her home in British Columbia when she awoke to the sound of her dog barking, followed by "an explosion." She jumped up and turned on the light, only to see a hole in the ceiling. Her clock.....»»
The best Black Friday 2023 headphone deals from Apple, Bose, and more
Black Friday week brings in the best headphone deals we've seen all year. Enlarge / Apple's AirPods Max noise-canceling headphones. (credit: Jeff Dunn) The best headphone Black Friday deals have landed, and we've pulled.....»»
The best Google Pixel 8 cases in 2023: 20 best ones you can buy
The Google Pixel 8 has landed. Make sure yours is protected from day one with the best Google Pixel 8 cases available right now!.....»»
Flipper Zero can still crash iPhones running the latest version of iOS 17
In September, 9to5Mac reported that Flipper Zero, a popular and cheap hacking tool, was being used to wreak havoc on nearby iPhones and iPads, spamming them with fake Bluetooth pop-ups until they eventually crashed. Despite many iOS 17 updates si.....»»
Apple’s latest iPad just crashed to its cheapest-ever price
The Wi-Fi, 64GB model of the 10th-generation Apple iPad is down to its lowest-ever price of $349 following a $100 discount from Amazon's Black Friday deals......»»
Google’s 36% search revenue share with Apple is 3x what Android OEMs get
Cooperative Android manufacturers only get 12 percent of search revenue. Enlarge / Let's see, you landed on my "Google Ads" space, and with three houses... that will be $1,400. (credit: Ron Amadeo / Hasbro) The biggest.....»»
Smashing the "concrete ceiling": Black women are still missing from corporate leadership
While white women may speak of breaking through the "glass ceiling," for many Black women, it's more like a "concrete ceiling." Black women experience unique and formidable barriers in the workforce that are not only difficult to break, but also obsc.....»»
Some of the moon"s craters are from interstellar impacts. Can we tell which?
By discovering two interstellar objects (ISOs), we know that asteroids and comets from other star systems pass through the solar system from time to time. By inference, some of these must have crashed into the moon, creating impact craters. If we cou.....»»
In a surprise move, the military’s spaceplane will launch on Falcon Heavy
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy could send the X-37B into a higher orbit than before. Enlarge / The military's X-37B spaceplane landed last November to end the program's sixth mission. (credit: US Space Force/Staff Sgt. Adam Shanks).....»»
M3 MacBook Pro review roundup: Incrementally better
Reviews for Apple's MacBook Pro range updated with new M3-series chips have landed, with most talk being about the static design mixed with a chip performance boost.M3 MacBook ProOn October 23 as part of its "Scary Fast" event, Apple rolled out updat.....»»
ESA"s Hera mission is bringing two CubeSats along. They"ll be landing on Dimorphos
In about one year from now, the European Space Agency will launch its Hera mission. Its destination is the asteroid Didymos, and it'll be the second human spacecraft to visit the 390-meter chunk of rock. NASA's DART mission crashed a kinetic impactor.....»»
This tiny device is sending updated iPhones into a never-ending DoS loop
No cure yet for a popular iPhone attack, except for turning off Bluetooth. Enlarge / A fully updated iPhone (left) after being force crashed by a Flipper Zero (right). (credit: Jeroen van der Ham) One morning two weeks a.....»»
Space rocks and asteroid dust are pricey, but these aren"t the most expensive materials used in science
After a journey of seven years and nearly 4 billion miles, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft landed gently in the Utah desert on the morning of Sept. 24, 2023, with a precious payload. The spacecraft brought back a sample from the asteroid Bennu......»»
How could a piece of the moon become a near-Earth asteroid? Researchers have an answer
A team of astronomers has found a new clue that a recently discovered near-Earth asteroid, Kamo'oalewa, might be a chunk of the moon. They hypothesized that the asteroid was ejected from the lunar surface during a meteorite strike—and they found th.....»»
10.2-inch iPad just crashed back to its lowest price of the year
The Wi-Fi, 64GB model of the ninth-generation Apple iPad with a 10.2-inch Retina display is on sale from Amazon for $249, which is its lowest price this year......»»
We landed a camera on Venus before seeing parts of our own oceans—time to ramp up observations closer to home
Viewed from the Voyager 1 space probe as it passed beyond the edge of the solar system, Earth and Venus might not look too different—same diameter, similar mass and distance from the sun......»»
International team reveals source of largest ever marsquake recorded
A global team of scientists have announced the results of an unprecedented collaboration to search for the source of the largest ever seismic event recorded on Mars. The study, led by the University of Oxford, rules out a meteorite impact, suggesting.....»»
Google, DOJ still blocking public access to monopoly trial docs, NYT says
NYT asked the court to intervene and unseal secretive testimony in its entirety. Enlarge / Let's see, you landed on my "Google Ads" space, and with three houses... that will be $1,400. (credit: Ron Amadeo / Hasbro) Doze.....»»
The best Google Pixel 8 cases in 2023: 15 best ones you can buy
The Google Pixel 8 has landed. Make sure yours is protected from day one with the best Google Pixel 8 cases available right now!.....»»
A big discount just landed on the Google Nest Doorbell for Prime Day
One of the best Prime Day smart home deals is on the Google Nest Doorbell, which you can grab for just $120 this Prime Day......»»
Ecovacs Deebot X2 Omni review: hitting the ceiling
The Ecovacs Deebot X2 Omni is one of the best robot vacuums on the market, even if it only makes incremental improvements over the existing T20 Omni......»»