Getting Doom to run on things that were never meant to run Doom is something of a cottage industry among a die-hard subset of PC hackers and coders. Your motherboard’s BIOS, a bunch of old potatoes, a Lego brick, a home pregnancy test: The list goes on and on. But Read more…
On Monday, a who’s who of the nation’s tech leaders — organized as CEOs for CS by the tech-backed nonprofit Code.org — issued a public challenge in a letter to ‘the Governors of the United States’, calling on the Govs to bring more computer science to K-12 students in their Read more…
Posing as a scholar, a Chinese woman spent years writing alternative accounts of medieval Russian history on Chinese Wikipedia, conjuring imaginary states, battles, and aristocrats in one of the largest hoaxes on the open-source platform. The scam was exposed last month by Chinese novelist Yifan, who was researching for a Read more…
More than 80% of Americans have a widely used herbicide lurking in their urine, a new government study suggests. The chemical, known as glyphosate, is “probably carcinogenic to humans,” the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer has said. Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Roundup, a well-known Read more…
City lights that blaze all night are profoundly disrupting urban plants’ phenology — shifting when their buds open in the spring and when their leaves change colors and drop in the fall. New research I coauthored shows how nighttime lights are lengthening the growing season in cities, which can affect Read more…
Magic Leap’s next AR headset is coming this fall, and it’s not cheap. The self-contained Magic Leap 2 glasses, which CNET tried earlier this year, will cost at least $3,299, and be available Sept. 30. Unlike the first Magic Leap headset, which launched back in 2018 and aspired to be Read more…
