HTC One M9e Passes TENAA
The HTC One A9 is not going to be the bleeding edge smartphone we originally thought, but it is the next flagship smartphone the company will release. Before that though HTC is launching the One M9e at an event tomorrow (we'll have to wait until ne.....»»
Nvidia passes Google’s market cap, now world’s fourth most valuable company
Nvidia might soon be worth more than the world's biggest oil company. Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Nvidia used to be a gaming GPU company, but the company's value has absolutely skyrocketed thanks to the AI craze and a.....»»
NASA solar sail technology passes crucial deployment test
In his youth, NASA technologist Les Johnson was riveted by the 1974 novel "The Mote in God's Eye," by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven, in which an alien spacecraft propelled by solar sails visits humanity. Today, Johnson and a NASA team are preparing.....»»
Toyota market capitalization hits Japan record as stock surges
Toyota passes an impressive milestone in Japan, becoming the nation's first company to top the symbolic ¥50 trillion ($354.65 billion) market capitalization mark as investors rally behind record sales and profits driven by booming hybrid vehicles......»»
Shake, rattle and launch: Dream Chaser spaceplane passes vibration test
Sierra Space's shuttle-like Dream Chaser has been put through its paces at a powerful NASA vibration facility that mimics conditions during launch and atmospheric reentry, officials said Thursday ahead of its planned first flight to the ISS this year.....»»
"Rights of nature" are being recognized overseas. In Australia, local leadership gives cause for optimism
As each day passes, the need to protect Australia's environment grows more urgent. As noted in the most recent State of Environment Report in 2021, we are increasingly turning to "measures of last resort" to prevent species extinctions and the collap.....»»
NASA"s BurstCube passes milestones on journey to launch
Scientists and engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have completed testing for BurstCube, a shoebox-sized spacecraft designed to study the universe's most powerful explosions. Members of the team have also delivered.....»»
Asteroid will pass in front of bright star Betelgeuse to produce a rare eclipse visible to millions
One of the biggest and brightest stars in the night sky will momentarily vanish as an asteroid passes in front of it to produce a one-of-a-kind eclipse......»»
Famed Halley"s comet passes aphelion this weekend
It's lonely out there in the frozen outer solar system. On Saturday, December 9th, that most famous of all comets 1P/Halley reaches a hallmark point on its 75-year journey through the solar system, reaching aphelion or its most distant point from the.....»»
Adding boarding passes on Android will soon become less of a hassle
Google Chrome will soon be able to automatically detect boarding passes and add it to Google Wallet. The post Adding boarding passes on Android will soon become less of a hassle appeared first on Phandroid. Physical boarding passes are ann.....»»
Next-generation space telescopes could use deformable mirrors to image Earth-sized worlds
Observing distant objects is no easy task, thanks to our planet's thick and fluffy atmosphere. As light passes through the upper reaches of our atmosphere, it is refracted and distorted, making it much harder to discern objects at cosmological distan.....»»
NASA"s "flawless" heat shield demo passes the test
A little more than a year ago, a NASA flight test article came screaming back from space at more than 18,000 mph, reaching temperatures of nearly 2,700°F before gently splashing down in the Pacific Ocean. At that moment, it became the largest blunt.....»»
Here’s where you can use your iPhone as your digital driver’s license or ID so far [November 2023]
Apple announced plans to turn the iPhone into your driver’s license in 2021. Plane tickets, movie passes, and credit cards were already digital. Now it was time to digitize government-issued identification cards. So far, very few U.S. states act.....»»
Huge "blobs" inside Earth are from another planet, study suggests
Scientists proposed a novel idea on Wednesday that could solve two of the world's mysteries at once—one that passes over our heads every night, and one that sits far below our feet......»»
Here’s where you can use your iPhone as your digital driver’s license or ID so far [October 2023]
Apple announced plans to turn the iPhone into your driver’s license in 2021. Plane tickets, movie passes, and credit cards were already digital. Now it was time to digitize government-issued identification cards. So far, very few U.S. states act.....»»
Quantum repeaters use defects in diamond to interconnect quantum systems
The popular children's game of telephone is based on a simple premise: The starting player whispers a message into the ear of the next player. That second player then passes along the message to the third person and so on until the message reaches th.....»»
NASA"s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe passes system integration review
The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) marked the completion of an important step on the path to spacecraft assembly, test, and launch operations in late September 2023 at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Maryland......»»
Hidden dangers loom for subsea cables, the invisible infrastructure of the internet
More than 97% of the world’s internet traffic passes through subsea cables at some point, according to ENISA. Subsea cables are a vital component of the global internet infrastructure, and it is critical to protect them from cyberattacks, physical.....»»
Online Safety Bill passes in the UK w/o iMessage impact, but government not giving up
The British government’s hugely controversial Online Safety Bill has today passed in the second chamber of Parliament, and after six years of debate is now set to become law. While Apple’s iMessage and other end-to-end encrypted messaging apps.....»»
Calif. passes strongest right-to-repair bill yet, requiring 7 years of parts
Repair shops must disclose if they're using "non-authorized" parts. Enlarge (credit: iFixit) California, the home to many of tech's biggest companies and the nation's most populous state, is pushing ahead with a right-to.....»»
Researchers close in on the elusive neutrino
The humble neutrino, an elusive subatomic particle that passes effortlessly through normal matter, plays an outsized role among the particles that comprise our universe. To fully explain how our universe came to be, we need to know its mass. But, lik.....»»