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Tuesday May 7, 2024. 01:58 PM
As you probably know, the cicadas are coming, and they're almost here! PBS explains all of the buzz: These insects spend the majority of their lives underground, feeding off of tree roots. But every 13 or 17 years, different broods – groups of cicadas that debut at the sam...
Fatih Arslan reports from the annual Braun Börse, a collector's fair held May 4 at the company's headquarters in Kronberg, Germany, 'the perfect place for any Braun or Dieter Rams enthusiasts.' This is my first visit to the Braun Börse fair. — Read the rest The post...
More work to do as most deadlines are missed and worst bugs still take months to fix The deadlines associated with CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog only apply to federal agencies, but fresh research shows they're having a positive impact on private...
Director Stanley Kubrick was famously perfectionist and infamously unpleasant to work with, and this extended to an early biography of him written by Neil Hornick, now published as The Magic Eye: The Cinema of Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick originally worked with Hornick but...
Musi’s free music streaming app is a hit with thrifty teens. The app claims to tap content on YouTube, but some in the music industry question the legitimacy of that model.
Thousands of guards' ID cards and CCTV snaps of suspects found online Exclusive A UK-based physical security business let its guard down, exposing nearly 1.3 million documents via a public-facing database, according to an infosec researcher.…
At a glanceExpert's Rating ProsFast like an external SSDDecently affordableSmall form factorCaptive Type-A USB connectorCons Costs more than the common thumb driveOur VerdictSK Hynix’s Tube T31 looks like a standard Type-A USB thumb drive, but performs more like the external...
The Windows system consists of thousands of files. Many of them have strange names, others have extensions that most users have never seen before. Normally you do not need to worry about these files. Windows is designed to configure, optimize, and in many cases even repair...
The Register provides a retrospective look at how Microsoft 'absorbed the handset division of Nokia' ten years ago, only to kill the unit two years later and write it off as a tax loss. What went wrong? 'It was a fatal combination of bad management, a market evolving in ways ...
Amazon’s newest delivery drones will take off from just outside Phoenix, but don’t count on rush-ordering a fan on a hot day. The fleet can’t fly when the temperature exceeds 104 degrees Fahrenheit.
Too many folks who should know better saying info-slurping tactics of Big Tech are just as bad Opinion Which China do you want? The innovative good global citizen, adding to the storehouse of knowledge while making better products and services? Or the autocracy, determined...
Saga's HoloBike just launched on Kickstarter. It's pretty and has potential, but the rides themselves are short and need some work.
Data management language SQL (originally published as SEQUEL) first appeared in May 1974, so this month marks its 50th anniversary. We spoke to Peter Zaitsev, founder at Percona, to find out why SQL has survived for the last 50 years, and is still the third most used...
Possibly its most helpful codename yet 9front, the most active project continuing development of the sequel to Unix, Plan 9 from Bell Labs, emitted a new version. We did not follow its advice.…
If you’re traveling abroad this summer, you’ll be happy to know how to speak the language of your destination. While you’re probably not going to become fluent by the summertime, Babbel Language Learning claims you can become conversational in a new language in as little as...
What next, trouble at tmill? A row in the UK has locals and council members at odds over apostrophes, and yes – this does actually have a tech angle. …
'Out of an abundance of caution,' Boeing says its historic Starliner launch has been postponed, citing an issue with the oxygen relief valve on the Atlas V rocket's upper stage. It was expected to launch tonight at 10:34 p.m. ET. TechCrunch reports: There are backup launch...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: In April, Apple sent notifications to iPhone users in 92 countries, warning them they'd been targeted with spyware. 'Apple detected that you are being targeted by a mercenary spyware attack that is trying to remotely compromise ...
Crims SIM swap execs' kids to freak out their parents, Mandiant CTO says RSAC Ransomware infections have morphed into 'a psychological attack against the victim organization,' as criminals use increasingly personal and aggressive tactics to force victims to pay up, according ...
Swedish energy company Stockholm Exergi and Microsoft have announced a 10-year deal that will provide the tech giant with more than 3.3 million tons of carbon removal certificates through bioenergy with carbon capture and storage. While the value of the deal was not...
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