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Boeing’s 1,574th and final 747 leaves the factory, which will be delivered to Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings after a test flight. Just because the Boeing 747 is out of production doesn’t mean it’s going to disappear from the skies immediately, with the last planes delivered flying for decades. But the Boeing 747 is becoming increasingly […]

Ankylosaurs are known for their body armor and tail mallets. Its tail mallet consists of several large pieces of intradermal bone that fuse with the last few tail vertebrae to form a hard rod. Most scientists believe that Ankylosaur’s tail hammer was used to defend against predation. But according to new research published in the

Plastic is one of the fastest growing materials. Global plastic production is expected to double by 2050 to more than 1 billion tons per year. Followed by, is the intensification of pollution. Plastic litter currently accounts for 85% of all marine litter. The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) predicts that by 2040, the amount of

After the 9/11 attacks in 2001, the US Senate unanimously passed the Real Name Act to make it harder for would-be hijackers to forge their identities. However, the implementation of the real-name system has been delayed continuously because the identification systems of the states in the United States are not complete. Proof of identity for

DeepMind’s AI DeepNash has reached the level of professional human players in Stratego. Stratego is a board game that requires strategic thinking in the absence of information. It is much more complex than chess, go or poker that AI has mastered before. In the game, each side has 40 pieces, and each other cannot see

Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov announced that its paid subscription service Telegram Premium has accumulated more than one million users in less than six months, calling it one of the most successful examples of social media subscription programs to date. Telegram has been exploring profit models in the past few years, such as trying

The Comprehensive Team of the State Council’s Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism for the Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic issued the “Notice on Further Optimizing and Implementing the Prevention and Control Measures for the Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic”, relaxing the requirements for epidemic prevention and control. The new ten articles do not mention the unwavering insistence

Apple has delayed the launch of its self-driving electric car until 2026. The current self-driving cars are still a long way from the L5 fully automatic driving capability, and most of them stay at the L3 level. Apple’s Project Titan aims to achieve Level 5 autonomous driving, but it’s currently impractical. Project Titan is thus

Some Amazon customers can earn $2 a month by sharing their mobile data with the e-commerce giant. Amazon’s Ad Verification app invites users to share their mobile data to help it provide customers with a more personalized advertising experience. The $2 reward is only available to users who are invited to participate, users who do

Physicists think they have detected an asymmetry in the arrangement of galaxies in the universe. If confirmed, the discovery could point to the signature of unknown fundamental laws of physics at work during the Big Bang. The researchers tried to construct tetrahedra among a set of four galaxies, and when they constructed all possible tetrahedra

The U.S. passed the Chips Act earlier this year, allocating $280 billion in subsidies and support for semiconductor R&D to encourage companies to make chips domestically. Similar legislation has also been introduced in the European Union amid concerns that global semiconductor companies could compete with each other for more favorable deals or create a supply

Dwarf Fortress is an indie game that left its mark on the internet. It’s free to play, where players play as an adventurer or manage a fortress full of dwarves in a randomly generated fantasy world. There is only one developer for the entire game: Tarn Adams, aka Toady One, the project started in 2002

The drug, Rebyota, became the first fecal transplant product approved for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The treatment, developed by the Swiss pharmaceutical company Ferring, uses faeces from healthy donors to prevent recurrent Clostridium difficile (CDI) infections in adults. In the United States, between 15,000 and 30,000 people die each year