Cixin Liu’s sci-fi novel The Three-Body Problem can’t stop jumping to other formats. In addition to next year’s Netflix series from The Terror: Infamy’s Alexander Woo and Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and DB Weiss, last year saw the release of a serialized podcast (different from the audiobook version). Read more…
After 908 days in orbit, the U.S. military’s X-37B space plane finally touched down today in Florida. And “the Boeing-built space plane also carried a service module on the newly completed mission, a first for the U.S. Space Force’s X-37B program.” “With the service module added, this was the most Read more…
Four years after Laserlike was acquired by Apple to boost its web search technology, the founders have quit to rejoin Google. Prior to forming Laserlike in 2015, Anand Shukla, Srinivasan Venkatachary and Steven Baker were all Google employees. Their work at Apple is one reason the company has been predicted Read more…
Volkswagen Norway as part of a marketing exercise “claims to have built an office chair that not only looks worthy of a Star Trek captain but also can drive around the office on its own five wheels — at speeds of up to 20 kilometers per hour (roughly 12mph).” The Read more…
Crypto exchange FTX lent billions of dollars worth of customer assets to fund risky bets by its affiliated trading firm, Alameda Research, setting the stage for the exchange’s implosion, a person familiar with the matter said. FTX Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried said in investor meetings this week that Alameda owes Read more…
“KFC has apologised after sending a promotional message to customers in Germany, urging them to commemorate Kristallnacht with cheesy chicken,” reports the BBC. The Nazi-led series of attacks in the country in 1938 left more than 90 people dead, and destroyed Jewish-owned businesses and places of worship. It is widely Read more…
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them WHAT to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. — Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.