Dec 24: If you’ve been drooling over Apple’s flashy new MacBook Pro, you might want to stuff your stocking with a different laptop. Consumer Reports said Thursday that it has decided not to recommend Apple’s new MacBook Pros, because the notebooks’ battery life can be miserable. The issue isn’t exactly new: Many MacBook Pro owners […]
Dec 24: Temperatures at the North Pole could be up to 20 degrees higher than average this Christmas Eve, in what scientists say is a record-breaking heatwave. Climate scientists say these unseasonably warm weather patterns in the Arctic region are directly linked to man-made climate change. Temperatures throughout November and December were 5C higher than […]
Jonathan Amos / Dec. 17: The researchers behind an app that turns a smartphone into an earthquake detector say they have been thrilled by the take-up and performance of their citizen science network. MyShake was launched for Android devices in February and has now been downloaded over 200,000 times. Enabled phones have recorded hundreds of […]
Dec. 17: Vine lovers can still get their six-second looping video fix. The Twitter-owned video app that launched viral stars and a new form of visual comedy isn’t totally shutting down. Vine is turning its app into Vine Camera, which will let users take six-second videos. The videos won’t be shared to Vine’s platform, which […]
Dec. 17: As Facebook introduces “fake news” warning labels, the social network faces a fundamental problem: Some of its users don’t trust the fact-checkers. There was an immediate uproar, led by right-wing web sites, when Facebook announced the labeling plan on Thursday. Some of Facebook’s partners were denounced as partisan, partly by writers and commentators […]
Dec. 16: A newly published statistical analysis of mini-spiral galaxies shows an unexpected interaction between dark matter and ordinary matter. The research shows that where the relationship is obvious and cannot be explained in a trivial way within the context of the Standard Model, these objects may serve as “portals” to a completely new form […]
Dec 10: If you haven’t already heard, you should probably download encrypted messaging app Signal. At least, that’s experts’ advice for people after the U.S. election. Between high-profile security failures and the Russian hacks before the election, we should know by now to secure our personal data. But some people worry that government surveillance will […]
Dec 10: Apple’s latest deal in China doesn’t have anything to do with smartphones. The tech giant is investing in the Chinese wind power industry, turning to the world’s most populous country to help it achieve its goal of getting 100% of its energy from renewable sources. The iPhone maker struck a deal this week […]
Yasmin Ali / Dec. 10: he world’s largest cold energy storage plant is being commissioned at a site near Manchester. The cryogenic energy facility stores power from renewables or off-peak generation by chilling air into liquid form. When the liquid air warms up it expands and can drive a turbine to make electricity. The 5MW […]
Dec 9: NASA’s Juno spacecraft will make its third science flyby of Jupiter on Sunday, December 11, at 9:04 a.m. PST. At the time of closest approach (called perijove), Juno will be about 2,580 miles (4,150 kilometers) above the gas giant’s roiling cloud tops and traveling at a speed of about 129,000 mph (57.8 kilometers […]
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