The collapse of the Terra ecosystem will go down as one of the most painful and devastating chapters in crypto history. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg via Getty Images Several employees of South Korea-based Terraform labs, the company behind the stablecoin TerraUSD, which collapsed last month and roiled cryptocurrency markets, cannot leave the country, prosecutors said. … Read more
Image: Naughty Dog Over the past few years we’ve started seeing something beautiful happen: fans of classic console games are taking old code and creating native PC versions of games that never saw an official release. We’ve seen it with some Nintendo gamesbut now we’re seeing it with a PlayStation platformer as well. This isn’t … Read more
A solar flare is a massive outburst of energy from the Sun. What if we are directly hit by a major one? This is how solar flares can impact us. The Sun is essential for the survival of plants as well as humans on Earth, but this giant energy source can also disrupt all kinds … Read more
For Jung Ki-young, a South Korean software engineer, Microsoft’s decision to retire its Internet Explorer web browser marked the end of a quarter-century love-hate relationship with the technology. To commemorate its demise, he spent a month and 430,000 won ($330) designing and ordering a headstone with Explorer’s “e” logo and the English epitaph: “He was … Read more
A view of SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy).Photo: NASA/Jim Ross This past April, NASA and its partners at the German space agency announced the end to the SOFIA mission. The modified Boeing 747SP jumbo jet is being retired after eight years of service, but its scientific contributions cannot be overstated. In honor of this … Read more
As prices drop and availability increases, some of the last road blocks to mass adoption of electric vehicles is range anxiety and charging times. Goal has prototype test track in Italy solves both of those issues by borrowing the same technology that makes it easy to charge your smartphone without wires. Although the earliest EVs … Read more
SpaceX founder Elon Musk looks on at a post-launch news conference after the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Crew Dragon spacecraft, lifted off on an uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, March 2, 2019. Mike Blake | Reuters Elon Musk will speak to … Read more
Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images) While Google’s multiple antitrust cases continue to drag on here in the US, it looks like the search giant’s starting to make a few concessions across the pond. Reuters reports that Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has made an offer to European Union regulators in response to an ongoing investigation into … Read more
Tim CookPhoto: Spencer Platt (Getty Images) Apple’s WWDC event came and went without any mention of an AR/VR headset, but that hasn’t slowed the influx of reports and rumors surrounding this highly anticipated product. Despite the first model’s absence, we’re now learning about Apple’s second generation mixed reality headset. I appreciate your collective eye-rolling and … Read more
Photo: Spencer Platt (Getty Images) Tesla’s cars are notoriously hackableand a new video demonstrates a way an adept cybercriminal could hop inside your car’s system and take it for a ride if they’re nearby. First reported by Ars Technica, the exploit involves manipulation of a relatively new feature that Tesla added last August. The feature … Read more
