Home News Science & Astronomy After more than four years of exploring a menagerie of cosmic happenings through gravitational waves, scientists have finally spotted the third expected variety of collision — twice.The new flavor of collision includes one black hole and one neutron star, making it a mash-up of sorts. Scientists have observed dozens of…
Home News Spaceflight On June 29, 1971, a Soviet space mission ended in tragedy when three Russian cosmonauts were found dead inside their spacecraft after returning to Earth.Inside the Soyuz 11 space capsule were cosmonauts Vladislav Nikolayevich, Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev, and Georgi Timofeyevich Dobrovolskiy. They were the only crew to ever board the world’s first…
There have been quite a number of notable Android phones launched in the past few months but, for some Android purists, nothing still beats a Google Pixel. The company’s direction has admittedly been a bit perplexing in the past year or two, and nothing exemplifies that more than the Pixel 5a. Google may actually still…
OnePlus just revealed its first Nord phones of the year, and both fall below the bar that the first OnePlus Nord set last year. Its true successor is still coming, even OnePlus said so, but details about the OnePlus Nord 2 are still unofficial. As is the company’s practice, OnePlus might start teasing the phone…
OLED displays have been praised for their power-efficiency and deeper blacks, but LCD technology used to have one important advantage, at least for a short while. Until recently, only LCD screens could boast of refresh rates that went higher than 60Hz, let alone 120Hz or more. OLEDs, however, are catching up and it’s not unusual…
LG is seeking to sell iPhones from its digital appliance shops now that it has shut down its own smartphone business. That is bad news for Samsung, which worries about its market share if its chief international rival Apple has a bigger physical presence here. LG wants to sell iPhones, iPads and Apple watches at…
More than 3 million Koreans now own foreign stocks and pocketed over US$270 million in dividends last year. According to the Korea Securities Depository, Korean retail investors were paid $274 million in dividends from foreign companies in 2020, the first time they surpassed $200 million and up nine-fold from 2011.They own $47.1 billion worth of…
Spending on private tuition for elementary schoolchildren in Seoul jumped 18 percent this year as kids were released from lockdown, a poll suggests. Parents have started to send their kids back to private crammers amid easing lockdown or hire tutors as they fear that online classes have not helped their children learn much. According to…
Businesses are starting to shift back to normal work schedules as Korea’s vaccination program picks up pace. Lockdown is being eased from July as vaccinations start for people in their 40s and 50s, so companies are cutting down on telecommuting and sending staff overseas on business trips again. “Until now, all businesses responded to the coronavirus…
Human Rights Watch has slammed President Moon Jae-in for describing North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as “honest” and “enthusiastic” in a recent interview with TIME magazine.In a statement sent to Voice of America last Friday, the international watchdog said Kim “should be facing trial at the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.””The UN Commission…
