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SpaceX and T-Mobile US announced a partnership to use the Starlink broadband satellite constellation to provide connectivity to T-Mobile phones across the United States, even in remote areas where wireless service is not currently available. The parties plan to begin testing the SMS service in selected markets by the end of 2023. The ultimate goal […]

According to a study published in The Astronomical Journal, astronomers report the discovery of an exoplanet, TOI-1452 b, about five times the mass of Earth, 30 percent of which is water, orbiting a distance of One of a small binary star system in the constellation Draco, about 100 light-years away from Earth, may be an

Starting in 2026, any scientific paper receiving federal funding must be open access from the date of publication, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) announced Thursday. The move could further shake up the scientific publishing industry. The United States is probably the world’s largest funder of scientific research, and the NIH

There is a proper name for swatting, a hoax used to force police into SWAT by falsely reporting serious violence to police. U.S. Republican House congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was swatting for two days in a row . Greene is a controversial figure who is a supporter of the right-wing conspiracy theory Anonymous Q.

Netflix announced in February of this year that it had partnered with Take-Two Interactive and its subsidiary 2K to adapt the famous dystopian game BioShock. Known for its dystopian setting and amazing underwater and celestial cities, the Bioshock series consists of three titles – Bioshock, Bioshock 2, and Bioshock Infinite – which have sold over

In a study published this week in the journal JAMA Network Open, researchers from Peking University and Tsinghua University analyzed the incubation periods of different variants of the new coronavirus and found that the average incubation period is getting shorter and shorter. The original version of the virus first discovered in Wuhan had an average

Researchers at security firm Trend Micro report that Genshin Impact’s anti-cheat driver, mhyprot2.sys, was exploited by ransomware to kill antivirus software’s processes and services. As a device driver, mhyprot2.sys is installed separately from the game “Yuanshen”. Uninstalling “Yuanshen” will not uninstall mhyprot2.sys. As early as September 2020, when Mihayou released “Yuanshen”, the game community began

The Wii U emulator project Cemu has been announced as open source, and the source code is hosted on GitHub under the Mozilla Public License 2.0 license. The developer also announced Cemu 2.0, indicating that it will provide a Linux build version, but currently users need to compile it themselves, and plan to provide appimage

AWK author Brian Kernighan, a professor at Princeton University, revealed in an interview (YouTube, 8 minutes or so) that he recently did a little work adding Unicode support to AMK. The AWK language is used for parsing text files and is one of the core components of the Unix operating system, and any POSIX-compliant operating

Some smokers are used to drinking a cup of coffee in the morning. Researchers at the University of Florida have found that compounds in roasted coffee beans may help reduce morning nicotine cravings. The researchers found that two compounds in coffee directly affect highly sensitive nicotine receptors in the brain. A smoker’s nicotine receptors become

Nvidia announced its fiscal 2023 fiscal second quarter report, which ended July 31, 2022, with revenue of $6.7 billion, up 3% year-over-year, but down 19% from the previous quarter. Among them, the data center business revenue was 3.81 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 61%; the game business revenue was 2.04 billion US dollars,

Debian changed the Chromium browser’s default search engine from Google to DuckDuckGo , citing privacy reasons. Chromium is an open source project for Chrome, but still includes Google’s services. The Debian developers discussed replacing Google with DDG earlier this year. It does this through a managed policy file (/etc/chromium/policies/managed/.json). Users can still modify the default

To ensure power supply, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida proposed to build a new nuclear power plant. After the Fukushima nuclear accident in the Great East Japan Earthquake, Japan shut down its existing nuclear power plants, subject to a safety review by the Japan Atomic Energy Regulatory Commission. Previously, about 30% of Japan’s total power