“For 50 years, interplanetary probes have returned thousands of striking images of the surface of Mars, but never a single sound.” So says the largest fundamental science agency in Europe, the French National Centre for Scientific Research (France’s state research organisation). Then they made a surprising discovery. Researchers studying recordings Read more…
“Google is taking aim at Microsoft’s dominance in government technology and security,” reports NBC News: Jeanette Manfra, director of risk and compliance for Google’s cloud services and a former top U.S. cybersecurity official, said Thursday that the government’s reliance on Microsoft — one of Google’s top business rivals — is Read more…
Elon Musk has taken a 9.2% passive stake in Twitter, according to a 13G filing, Bloomberg News reports. Twitter rose about 26% in pre-market trading. Musk, 50, polled his more than 80 million followers on Twitter last month, asking them whether the company adheres to the principles of free speech. Read more…
The western United States, “once a beacon for all that was new and hopeful in America, could become an example of the grim, apocalyptic future the nation faces from climate change,” writes USA Today. The last five years already have been harrowing. Whole neighborhoods burned down to foundations. Children kept Read more…
The launch was the latest in a series of Electron launches of BlackSky satellites arranged by Spaceflight. That deal included launches of pairs of BlackSky satellites in November and December 2021 as well as a failed Electron launch in May 2021…. Rocket Lab did not attempt to recover the first Read more…
Bitcoin hit a milestone Friday “that gets the world ever closer to the moment when the final new bitcoin will enter the world,” reports Axios. “The supply of coins broke 19 million…” “Bitcoin is hard-coded so that it has both a predictable emission schedule and a hard cap of 21 Read more…
Justin E. H. Smith is a professor of the history and philosophy of science. Princeton University Press has just published his new book — titled The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is. (Definite internet as “the part that we are glued to for most hours of our waking Read more…