What Ever Happened to ICQ?
ICQ, short for the phrase "I Seek You," laid the groundwork for standalone instant messaging clients when it arrived in November 1996. Think about how long ago that was... Windows 95 was barely a year old, Nintendo had just introduced the N64, and th.....»»
AMD Promises "Extreme Gaming Laptops" in 2023 With New Dragon Range CPU
An anonymous reader shares a report: A funny thing happened in 2020: AMD won the gaming laptop for the first time ever. Until the Asus Zephyrus G14, we'd never seen a laptop with an AMD CPU and AMD GPU run circles around the competition. Since then,.....»»
Surface Duo Running Windows 11 Is Slowly Becoming A Reality
The Surface Neo still hasn't happened, but a DIY project has given us a tantalizing look at what may be possible...and it involves the Surface Duo. The Surface Neo s.....»»
The handshake in space that brought hope to the world
What happened when US astronauts met USSR cosmonauts in space.....»»
GrowCube – Smart Automatic Watering Kit
After vacation of only a couple of days we get back to our homes only to found our lovely greenery upset and out of shape. It happened to all of us. Due to the lack of water and attention, they wither, turn yellow or even go away altogether, certainl.....»»
Metroid 64 Imagines the 64-Bit Entry That Never Happened
While the Nintendo 64 never got a Metroid game, two fans are working on showing the world what a Metroid 64 could have looked like.While the Nintendo 64 never got a Metroid game, two fans are working on showing the world what a Metroid 64 could have.....»»
How to make DevSecOps a reality
Every AppSec leader recognizes and admits that software development is accelerating, and there’s no way their current approach is going to keep up. It is much better to prevent incidents than react to them after they have already happened. In t.....»»
Here"s something rare: A Mars crater that isn"t a circle. What happened?
Most impact craters are usually circular and fairly symmetric, but not all. This oddly shaped crater on Mars is obviously an impact crater, but it has a unique oblong shape. What happened?.....»»
What Happened After Russia Seized Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Site?
The Associated Press files this report from Chernobyl, where invading tanks in February "churned up highly contaminated soil from the site of the 1986 accident that was the world's worst nuclear disaster..." "Here in the dirt of one of the world's.....»»
Scientists Restart Large Hadron Collider in Quest for Dark Matter
Deep underneath the Alps, on the Swiss-French border, something significant just happened in the world of physics. The Large Hadron Collider, Earth's most powerful particle accelerator, was restarted on Friday morning after a three-year hiatus for up.....»»
Applications Surged After Colleges Started Ignoring Standardized Test Scores
What happened when college admissions offices started ignoring the standardized test scores? NBC News asked college administrators like Jon Burdick, Cornell's vice provost for enrollment: When the health crisis closed testing sites in 2020, four of.....»»
Microsoft might be working on a more efficient Xbox Series X chip
Since Microsoft finalized the Xbox Series X design, which probably happened about a year or more before the console actually shipped, semiconductor technology has improved. What was new back then isn't up-to-date now. That's just how technology works.....»»
The Farthest Star Sheds New Light on the Early Universe
A cosmic fluke helped Hubble spy Earendel, a giant star at the edge of the known universe that could tell us more about what happened after the Big Bang......»»
Private astronaut brings an item of mythic proportions to space station
In a vast Florida hangar almost 20 years ago, NASA scattered debris from the Columbia Space Shuttle crash across the floor. Accident investigators bent over the burnt and mangled wreckage, trying to understand what happened.Search parties had combed.....»»
Officers confused as they pull over an empty self-driving car
In what appears to be the first incident of its kind, cops recently pulled over a self-driving car with no one inside it. A video shows what happened next ........»»
Cops confused as they pull over an empty self-driving car
In what appears to be the first incident of its kind, cops recently pulled over a self-driving car with no one inside it. A video shows what happened next ........»»
Inside the Bitcoin Bust of the Web"s Biggest Child Abuse Site
Chainalysis is a software for tracing cryptocurrency, "to turn the digital underworld's preferred means of exchange into its Achilles' heel," writes Wired. This week they describe what happened when that company's co-founder discovered that for two.....»»
The Sonic movie that almost happened
Learn more about the unmade Sonic movie from the mid-90s and if the movie would have worked had it not been canceled......»»
German and Austrian deer thus far spared SARS-CoV-2 infections, unlike in North America
In North America, SARS-CoV-2 has spread from humans to white-tailed deer. The deer are now considered SARS-CoV-2 reservoirs and may even spill virus back to humans. Scientists have now shown that in Germany and Austria this has not happened as all de.....»»
What Ever Happened to Adobe Flash?
For years, Adobe Flash was synonymous with interactive websites, web video, and browser games. At its peak, Flash Player was on 99% of desktop browsers. A decade later and it's all but gone......»»
The Sad State of Russia"s Social Media Knock-offs
What happened after Russia blocked 80 million users of Instagram? Reuters reports: A black and white, melancholy alternative to Instagram that asks users to post sad pictures of themselves may launch in Russia this week, its creators said, to expres.....»»