It’s been one year since Facebook changed its name to “Meta Platforms,” remembers The Street. So after Mark Zuckerberg “bought the Oculus Quest VR headset, rebranded it Meta Quest, and formed Reality Labs solely to work on all projects related to the metaverse” — what happened next? Meta’s shares and Read more…
Remember the MICROSCOPE satellite ? In 2017, based on its first results, scientists were able to confirm Einstein’s equivalence principle (a key assumption in General Relativity) to unprecedented precision. Recently, they were able to improve precision by almost another order of magnitude by using all the data. Fortunately (or not) Read more…
“For the last century the biggest bar fight in science has been between Albert Einstein and himself,”: On one side is the Einstein who in 1915 conceived general relativity, which describes gravity as the warping of space-time by matter and energy. That theory predicted that space-time could bend, expand, rip, Read more…
America’s Securities and Exchanges Commission received a letter Thursday from Colorado Senator John Hickenlooper urging clearer regulations of digital assets: The lawmaker asked the agency to clarify what types of digital assets are securities, address how to issue and list digital securities, establish a registration service for digital asset security Read more…
In a major blow to America’s seafood industry, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game has, for the first time in state history, canceled the winter snow crab season in the Bering Sea due to their falling numbers. While restaurant menus will suffer, scientists worry what the sudden population plunge Read more…
Global animal populations are declining, and we’ve got limited time to try to fix it. From a report: That’s the upshot of a new report from the World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London, which analyzed years of data on thousands of wildlife populations across the world and Read more…