Glamping on the roof of a Kia Sorento is better than it sounds
Throw a Roofnest on top of a car and you’ve got yourself a weekend away. Enlarge / The Roofnest tent is quick to deploy and keeps you off the ground. (credit: Tim Stevens) I've had a fascination with rooftop tents ever sin.....»»
Russian influencer under investigation for driving a Bentley with his girlfriend tied to the roof
Kosenko has built his five million-strong following by posting dangerous stunts in the past. His latest Instagram video shows the Russian influencer driving around the streets of Moscow in a Bentley. While there's nothing unusual about that, Kosenko'.....»»
$100M donation powers decade-long moonshot to create solar satellites that beam power to Earth
It sounds like a plan concocted by a supervillain, if that villain’s dastardly end was to provide cheap, clean power all over the world: launch a set of three-kilometer-wide solar arrays that beam the sun’s energy to the surface of the Ea.....»»
How to adjust screen resolution in Windows
Adjusting your PC's screen resolution isn't as difficult as it sounds. Here's how to adjust screen resolution in Windows 10 or 7 in just a few quick steps......»»
Google Launches New Bug Hunters Vulnerability Rewards Platform
Google has announced a new platform and community designed to host all its Vulnerability Rewards Programs (VRP) under the same roof. From a report: Since launching its first VRP more than ten years ago, the company has rewarded 2,022 security researc.....»»
Researchers devise a way to levitate small objects from reflective surfaces using sound waves
As Science Alert highlights, engineers Shota Kondo and Kan Okubo from the Tokyo Metropolitan University split a transducer array into blocks, making it more manageable. Next, they employed an inverse filter to recreate sounds based on the acoustic wa.....»»
How Mockingbirds Compose Songs Just Like Beethoven
The birds aren’t producing sounds at random. Some of their strategies are surprisingly similar to ones used by humans......»»
The Framework laptop gets reviewed, here are some first impressions
The Framework laptop is designed to be easily upgradeable, from the RAM, the ports, faster Wi-Fi, or even replacing the motherboard without tossing the whole laptop. On paper, it sounds nifty, but in practice there are some concerns......»»
The plateau pika: How this tiny mammal survives winter on the roof of the world
Scientists from the University of Aberdeen School of Biological Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have completed a 13-year long investigation into the survival strategies of an enigmatic small mammal, the plateau pika, that lives on the Qi.....»»
How to play rain sounds in iOS 15 using the new Background Sounds feature
The new iOS 15 comes with its own way to generate background noises for study, relaxation, or concentration. Here's how to use iOS 15's Background Sounds......»»
Ring Always Home Cam: Everything you need to know about the flying indoor camera
Tired of buying cameras whenever you want to expand your home security? Then it sounds like the Ring Always Home Cam is a solid solution. Here's what we know......»»
This startup just created a fast, accurate COVID test that only needs saliva and links to an app
We’re entering a phase in the COVID-19 pandemic where transmission is going to go through the roof because of the Delta variant. But as vaccinations ramp up around the world, the main cost to society now will not be the health services being ov.....»»
New method to measure loss of signal in far-infrared instruments
After carefully observing dim objects in the night sky, you don't want to waste any precious signal on its way from the telescope dish to the detector. But in the case of far-infrared astronomy, it's not as easy as it sounds to transport the signal e.....»»
Acoustic research sheds new light on whale sounds
Scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), and international collaborators have this week published the first detailed research on the sounds made by southern right whales on their high latitude fe.....»»
T-Mobile is letting select iPhone owners take its network for a 30-day test drive
T-Mobile recently expanded its Test Drive program to include newer iPhones, and it sounds like a seamless way to take T-Mobile’s network for a spin......»»
Underground fiber optic sensors record sounds of COVID lockdown, reopening
In March 2020, daily life in the United States changed in an instant as the country locked down to deal with the initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. New research reveals how residents in one community returned to their routines as the restrictions.....»»
China Releases Video and Audio Footage From Its Rover on Mars
"China has released landing process footage from its Zhurong rover as well as video and sounds of the vehicle roving on Mars," reports Space News: Footage of the entry, descent and landing shows deployment of a supersonic disk-gap-band parachute,.....»»
Livestream: Watch Microsoft unveil Windows 11
The name Windows 11 hasn't been officially confirmed by Microsoft—today's stream is a "Microsoft Windows Event"—though hints such as the 11-minute video it released of slowed-down Windows startup sounds and the 11am start time were far from subtl.....»»
Microsoft’s “Windows Subsystem for Android” sounds a lot like Chrome OS
Microsoft is building an Android framework on top of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Little Android guy? How did you get in there? [credit: Ron Am.....»»
How to watch Microsoft"s Windows 11 unveiling at 8am PT / 11am ET
The name Windows 11 hasn't been officially confirmed by Microsoft—today's stream is a "Microsoft Windows Event"—though hints such as the 11-minute video it released of slowed-down Windows startup sounds and the 11am start time were far from subtl.....»»
Snap makes a deal with Universal Music Group, adding its catalog to Sounds
Snap today announced a multi-year deal with Universal Music Group, one of the largest music companies in the world. From Queen to Justin Bieber, users can clip songs from the expansive UMG catalog to use in their Snaps and on Spotlight, the app’.....»»