A team of engineers studying the 500-year-old, backward writings of Leonardo da Vinci have found evidence that the Italian polymath was working out gravity a century before its foundations were established by Galileo Galilei. The team’s findings come from a revisit of the Codex Arundel, a compilation of documents written Read more…
There may soon come a time when your car also serves as the hub of your personal power plant and then they tell the story of a New Mexico man named Nate Graham who connected a power strip and a $150 inverter to his Chevy Bolt EV during a power Read more…
A new Apple patent application describes a way to transform an iMessage to a voice note. In this way, the recipient can choose to have your message read to them not in Siri’s voice, but in yours. In other words, when you send an iMessage, your phone would offer you Read more…
Genetically modified seedlings from biotechnology company Living Carbon have been planted in a low-lying tract of southern Georgia’s pine belt. According to a paper that has yet to be peer reviewed, these trees are engineered to grow 50 percent faster than non-modified ones over five months in the greenhouse. The Read more…
“If you want to eat hippopatomus, you’ve got to pay the freight.” — attributed to an IBM guy, about why IBM software uses so much memory
Now that the Safe Connections Act (SCA) has become law, the Federal Communications Commission is taking steps to help domestic violence survivors leave their partners’ phone plans. The agency has proposed rules that would require carriers separate the line for a survivor within two business days of a request. Another Read more…
