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After 50 Years, Scientists Set to Open Sealed Apollo Soil Sample
The sample was vacuum-sealed twice for safekeeping in 1972, but the time has come to—carefully—break it open.
Nobody Is Buying Ubisoft’s Dumb In-Game NFTs
That should give you a little hope for the future of gaming, but it might have more to do with how much people hate Ghost Recon Breakpoint.
Facebook/Meta Earns Worst Company of the Year Award in Yahoo Finance Poll
A poll of Yahoo Finance readers has declared Facebook as the worst company of 2021. Congrats!
Microsoft Advances its Plan to Kill the Control Panel with Latest Developer Build
Microsoft is moving forward with its plan to transfer items out of the Control Panel and into Windows 11 Settings.
Some Products Claiming to Block 5G Are Dangerously Radioactive
Some people believe 5G is damaging to human health and have gone so far as to wear special accessories to ward off the 5G boogeyman. According to Dutch regulators, many of the products are themselves radioactive. It almost makes you miss the days when snake oil was just a placebo.
Giant Ship-Dragging Kites Head for Sea Trials
The massive kites can reduce cargo ships' carbon emissions by up to 40 percent.
Boeing Wants to Design Planes in the Metaverse
The troubled aerospace firm hopes to improve its design process by doing it in the metaverse. Of course, exactly what that means is still up in the air.
Turns Out People Really Are Using Apple AirTags to Track and Steal Cars
Alleged criminals are sticking the tiny tracking devices on vehicles with the hopes of finding them later, and absconding with them.
Scientists Warn of ‘Doomsday Glacier’ that Could Raise Sea Levels Two Feet
Far, far away from the presumably toasty place you're reading this, on the Walgreen Coast of Antarctica, there's a massive chunk of ice known as the Thwaites Glacier. It's the widest glacier in the world, and scientists are worried that a large volume of its ice could end up in the oceans very soon. This has earned Thwaites a nickname: Doomsday Glacier.
The Arrival of In-Game NFTs is Already Generating Heavy Resistance
Developers have begun to announce the addition to in-game NFTs, and gamers, and some developers, aren't happy about it.
JWST Launch Delayed to Christmas Eve
Last month, we hoped the James Webb Space Telescope’s new December 22 launch date would constitute the last of its delays. Our wish wasn’t granted.
Scientists Haven’t ‘Created’ a Warp Bubble, But They’re a Bit Closer to Testing One
Sorry, hopeful Trekkies, but we have to burst everyone's warp bubble. Despite recent reports that scientists had built a real warp bubble, it looks like warp speed is still a few baby steps away. But all hope is not lost: we sat down with Dr. Harold G. "Sunny" White, whose research team has recently proposed a structure that could be built in the real world to study the Casimir effect.