Microbes in oceans and soils across the globe are evolving to eat plastic, according to a study. The research scanned more than 200m genes found in DNA samples taken from the environment and found 30,000 different enzymes that could degrade 10 different types of plastic. From a report: The study Read more…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Apple is on the verge of yet another major milestone. The iPhone maker is close to topping a market value of more than $3 trillion — the first publicly traded company ever to be worth that much. Shares of Apple were up Read more…
Thelasko shares a report from The New York Times: In Pittsburgh, Memphis and Los Angeles, massive billboards recently popped up declaring, “Birds Aren’t Real.” On Instagram and TikTok, Birds Aren’t Real accounts have racked up hundreds of thousands of followers, and YouTube videos about it have gone viral. Last month, Read more…
An anonymous reader shares a report: Four years running, we’ve been jazzed by the potential of HDMI 2.1 — the relatively new video connector standard that can provide variable refresh rates (VRR), automatic low latency connections (ALLM), and of course, a giant pipe with 48Gbps of bandwidth (and fixed rate Read more…
“Bitcoin mining is a process of competitively wasting electricity to guess a winning number every 10 minutes or so,” writes author David Gerard in Foreign Policy magazine. And he’s got an equally negative take on Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s experiment in making Bitcoin an official national currency alongside the U.S. Read more…
“Russian hackers have stolen and published the personal data of tens of thousands of employees…” reports the Australian Financial Review. Government officials have confirmed the breach — part of a ransomware attack — and say the stolen data may even include info on the country’s premier, according to an Australian Read more…
“A study in 2019 found that the spatial memory used for navigating through the world tends to be worse for people who’ve made extensive use of map apps and GPS devices…” reports NBC News. But that’s just the beginning, according to Adrian Ward, who studies psychology at the University of Read more…