Ghostwire: Tokyo is just as weird as you’re expecting
A 30-minute gameplay clip of Ghostwire: Tokyo showed off faceless spirits, finger guns, and magical bodega cats......»»
How the microbes in wastewater can make our cities more sustainable
COVID-19 showed us how useful monitoring wastewater can be. But the genetic material in our wastewater, namely DNA and RNA, is a treasure trove of other useful information. It reveals the presence of thousands of different types of weird and wonderfu.....»»
Gene expression influences 3D folding of chromosomes by altering structure of the DNA helix, finds study
A collaborative study by the UTokyo-KI LINK program, headed by Camilla Björkegren from Karolinska Institutet, Kristian Jeppsson and Katsuhiko Shirahige from The University of Tokyo shows that a protein complex named Smc5/6 binds DNA structures calle.....»»
What’s new on HBO and Max in February 2024
HBO and Max's February 2024 lineup includes Tokyo Vice season 2, Curb Your Enthusiasm season 12, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and more......»»
To stick or not to stick? Mixed sand columns illuminate design of better materials
Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have been studying the strength and toughness of sand columns made of a mixture of sticky and non-sticky grains. They have uncovered the mechanism behind how the strength changes as grains are mixed in di.....»»
Turning glass into a "transparent" light-energy harvester
What happens when you expose tellurite glass to femtosecond laser light? That's the question that Gözden Torun at the Galatea Lab at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, in collaboration with Tokyo Tech scientists, aimed to answer in her thesis.....»»
Here’s the Pixel 8 Pro in Mint
This week, we’re expecting Google to release the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro in a brand new Mint color. The issue is, who has time for Google to release official images? Thanks to the interwebz, we now have an early look at the upcoming color optio.....»»
Next generation Siri likely to be launched in iOS 18, with ChatGPT style capabilities
A next generation Siri version is set to be powered by a generative AI chatbot, with analysts expecting it to be launched with iOS 18, and announced at this year’s WWDC. While Apple has been criticized for the way that Siri has lagged behind, a.....»»
Look back in time at Apple"s original Mac development team
Marking the 40th anniversary of the Mac, the Steve Jobs Archive has revisited the day "Rolling Stone" magazine sent a photographer to this "weird company."Steve Jobs with the original Macintosh in 1984Launched in 2022 by Laurene Powell Jobs, Tim Cook.....»»
Everything coming to Max (formerly HBO Max) in February 2024
From new seasons of Curb Your Enthusiasm and Tokyo Vice and movies like Dicks: The Musical, here's what's new on Max in February 2024......»»
4 really weird things you can do in "Palworld"
'Palworld' is taking video games by storm, and it's weird as heck, for better and worse. The first couple months of 2024 are stacked with huge video game releases, between Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth, and Tekken 8.....»»
Vera Rubin will help us find the weird and wonderful things happening in the solar system
The Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) is something special among telescopes. It's not built for better angular resolution and increased resolving power like the European Extremely Large Telescope or the Giant Magellan Telescope. It's built around a massiv.....»»
Follow the salt: Connecting salt concentrations and motion in roundworms
Joint research led by Ayaka Matsumoto and Yuichi Iino of the University of Tokyo demonstrates that temporal decrease in salt concentration leads to the activation of the neck motor neuron of roundworms, but only in a specific phase of its activity......»»
Scientists unravel key steps in the road to DNA repair
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have been studying DNA repair by homologous recombination, where the RecA protein repairs breaks in double-stranded DNA by incorporating a dangling single-strand end into intact double strands, and repai.....»»
Vision Pro sales estimated at 160k to 180k over first three days
Vision Pro sales have been estimated at 160,000 to 180,000 over the first three days of pre-orders in an analyst report. That’s somewhere over 40% of the 400,000 units Apple was reportedly expecting to sell in the first year. While the estimate.....»»
Automotive News Dealership Salary Survey: 2023 average pay was $200K, but with 50-hour workweek
The average U.S. car dealership employee was expecting to earn $200,200 in wages, commissions and bonuses in 2023, according to the Automotive News Dealership Salary Survey. But that big money came with a 51.9-hour workweek, the survey found......»»
Saturday Citations: The cutest conservationists; a weird stellar object; vitamins good for your brain
There are fields of scientific research that involve neither vast cosmic phenomena nor extremely cute animals, but those are topics of high salience in Saturday Citations, and this week is no exception. And we'll probably play the odds and say next w.....»»
Apple is closing many of its stores in the US early as Vision Pro launch nears
Apple Vision Pro is coming, and that means Apple Store locations in the United States will have some weird hours in the coming days. more….....»»
Galaxy S24 and Galaxy AI are great, but the flat-screen Ultra steals the show
The Galaxy S24 Unpacked launch event is finally here, with Samsung unveiling the three handsets you’ve been expecting. The Galaxy S24, S24 Plus, and S24 … The post Galaxy S24 and Galaxy AI are great, but the flat-screen Ultra steals the s.....»»
Apple’s post-iPhone era just got hijacked… by rabbits!?
CES 2024 showcased many surprises, but nobody was expecting a daring heist on Apple’s much talked about post-iPhone era by a man and his AI Rabbits......»»
Venus" atmospheric chemical anomalies may motivate future astrobiology missions
When scientists detected phosphine in Venus' atmosphere in 2020, it triggered renewed, animated discussions about Venus and its potential habitability. It would be weird if the detection didn't generate interest since phosphine is a potential biomark.....»»