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.....»»
A Son Is Rescued at Sea. But What Happened to His Mother?
Nathan Carman went fishing with his mom. A week later, he was found on a life raft—alone. Tragic accident or murder? Ocean sensors may point to the truth......»»
After street lights in an entire county were swapped to LEDs, light pollution got worse
"The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry"—this famous paraphrase of Scottish poet Robert Burns sometimes sums up human ingenuity. That is exactly what happened when a county in Washington State decided to replace all of its county-owned s.....»»
CNN Reports "Unprecedented Heat, Hundreds Dead" as Climate Change Hits the Northern Hemisphere
Canada's highest temperature ever recorded happened Tuesday, in the small British Columbia town of Lytton, reports CNN. But it's just part of "an unprecedented heat wave that has over a week killed hundreds of people and triggered more than 240 wildf.....»»
After China"s Crackdown on Bitcoin Mining, It"s More Profitable For Everyone Else
Bitcoin mining just became easier and more profitable, reports CNBC: The world has known for months that more than half the world's bitcoin miners would be going dark as China cracked down on mining. Now that it's happened, the bitcoin algorithm has.....»»
A Black Hole Feasted on a Neutron Star. 10 Days Later, It Happened Again.
In January last year, astronomers definitively observed, for the first time, a black hole swallowing a dead star, like a raven devouring roadkill. Then 10 days later, they saw the same act of scavenging happen again in a different, distant sector of.....»»
Study explores why women decide not to tell anyone about being sexually assaulted
Despite greater cultural awareness about the prevalence of sexual assault in recent years, many victims are reluctant to talk about what happened to them......»»
What Happened When an Entire Town Went Full Crypto
Bloomberg Businessweek describes what happened when an anonymous donor started "seeding" the tiny El Salvadoran surfing village of El Zonte (population: 3,000) with Bitcoin, turning it into the world's biggest Bitcoin experiment. Workers now receive.....»»
Some Texans Surprised Their Smart Thermostats Are Being Raised Remotely
Slashdot reader quonset writes: With the heat wave gripping Texas, and in an effort to prevent another collapse of the power grid as happened in February during cold weather, Texas is, for the third day in a row, asking residents to conserve electric.....»»
Semiconductor revenue increases slightly in 1Q21
Semiconductor revenue in the first quarter of 2021 grew from the previous quarter, marking just the third time that has happened since research firm Omdia began tracking quarterly semiconductor revenue in 2002......»»
Does zinc inhibit or promote growth of kidney stones? Well, both
A funny thing happened on the way to discovering how zinc impacts kidney stones—two different theories emerged, each contradicting the other. One: Zinc stops the growth of the calcium oxalate crystals that make up the stones; and two: It alters the.....»»
Apple just announced a touchscreen Mac — but it’s not what you expect
At WWDC 2021, Apple just gave the world the first touchscreen Mac. Except it did not show off any new Macs at all. So what exactly happened at the show?.....»»
Axions could be the fossil of the universe researchers have been waiting for
Finding the hypothetical particle axion could mean finding out for the first time what happened in the Universe a second after the Big Bang, suggests a new study published in Physical Review D on June 7......»»
Ancient Tsunami Could Have Wiped Out Scottish Cities Today, Study Finds
Towns and cities across Scotland would be devastated if the country's coastline was hit by a tsunami of the kind that happened 8,200 years ago, according to an academics' study. From a report: While about 370 miles of Scotland's northern and eastern.....»»
The world saw a shark-pocalypse 19 million years ago, and we don’t know why
Researchers find evidence of a huge shark die-off but aren't sure what happened. Enlarge (credit: Leah D. Rubin) Sharks have been swimming and hunting in the world's oceans for 450 million years, and though their numbers have recently declined.....»»
Big Video Game Leaks Like "Far Cry 6" Are Nearly Impossible To Stop
Big games beget big leaks, especially this time of year when the gaming industry's porous promotional machinery is revving up for the E3 trade show. From a report: It happened again Thursday when eight minutes of Ubisoft's upcoming "Far Cry 6" leaked.....»»
Why do women still get judged so harshly for having casual sex?
F. Scott Fitzgerald famously called the Roaring Twenties—which happened on the heels of the 1918 flu pandemic—"the most expensive orgy in history.".....»»
Study Reveals New Details On What Happened In the First Microsecond of Big Bang
Researchers from University of Copenhagen have investigated what happened to a specific kind of plasma -- the first matter ever to be present -- during the first microsecond of Big Bang. Their findings provide a piece of the puzzle to the evolution o.....»»
Unsolved Mysteries: Quantum Leap’s Don Bellisario on the fate of Sam Beckett
The man who came up with Sam, Al, and Ziggy dishes on the show—and what happened next. Produced by Adam Lance Garcia, edited by Ron Douglas. Click here for transcript. (video link) Fresh from our talk with Warhammer remembrancer Dan Abne.....»»
Watch this jetpack stuntman take on Usain Bolt’s 100-meter record
Watch what happened when British stuntman Richard Browning recently donned his five-engine jetpack in a bid to beat Usain Bolt's 100-meter sprint record......»»
Study reveals new details on what happened in the first microsecond of Big Bang
Researchers from University of Copenhagen have investigated what happened to a specific kind of plasma—the first matter ever to be present—during the first microsecond of Big Bang. Their findings provide a piece of the puzzle to the evolution of.....»»