Early Monday morning, a cable suspended over the Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico broke and left a 100-foot-long gash in the dish of the iconic radio telescope. The 3-inch diameter cable also caused damage to the panels of the Gregorian dome that is suspended hundreds of feet above the dish and houses the telescope’s receivers.…
Among the many announcements in today’s Intel Architecture Day, Intel is also offering a major update to their GPU roadmap over the next 24 months. The Xe family, already jam-packed with Xe-LP, Xe-HP, and Xe-HPC parts, is now getting a fourth planned variant: Xe-HPG. Aimed directly at the enthusiast gamer market, this latest Xe variant…
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Brian Truitt, USA TODAY Published 9:30 a.m. ET Aug. 13, 2020 | Updated 9:53 a.m. ET Aug. 13, 2020CLOSE For the 40th anniversary of “Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back,” Mark Hamill (aka Luke Skywalker) reveals never-seen exclusive shots to USA TODAY. USA TODAYWith a new holiday special, “Star Wars” is tapping into its kitschy…
Nothing ups your Zoom game like a good webcam, but right now, they’re a little hard to come by. At the start of the pandemic, webcams flew off (digital) shelves, and manufacturers have struggled to keep up with the new level of demand. If you’ve had a hard time nabbing one at a stomachable price,…
Last October, during a long day of closed-door sessions and windowless-lab meetings with executives and product managers, the kind of closeness that would now make me shudder in the context of a pandemic, Microsoft revealed its dual-screened phone. The joke at the time was that Microsoft refused to call the Surface Duo a phone, identifying…
On April 14, 1906, the Miles brothers left their studio on San Francisco’s Market Street, boarded a cable car, and began filming what would become an iconic short movie. Called A Trip Down Market Street, it’s a fascinating documentation of life at the time: As the cable car rolls slowly along, the brothers aim their…
If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more.Now seems like a good time to confess: I don’t wear a mask while running or biking. My neighborhood streets and parks are sparsely populated. It’s easy for me to give people a berth of far more than 10 feet…
Back in 2016, Ars Technica reported on an interesting use for the bundle of sensors we carry around every day in our smartphones: earthquake detection. The accelerometers in your phone make a passable seismometer, and with location data and enough users, you could detect earthquakes and warn users as the shocks roll across the landscape.…
When schools and day cares shut down in March, no one thought it would last more than a few months. But in the United States, the Covid-19 pandemic is nowhere near under control. That makes in-person schooling an iffy proposition in many parts of the country.Even if your school plans to have students on campus…
