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Modder Open Sources iPhone USB-C Mod
Modder Open Sources iPhone USB-C Mod

If you were hoping it was as simple as drilling a hole and soldering a few wires, you're in for disappointment.

Astronomers Now Have a Better Idea Where Planet 9 Isn’t
Astronomers Now Have a Better Idea Where Planet 9 Isn’t

Efforts to find the alleged planet are still in the early phases, but Brown and Batygin just finished a major survey with the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) telescope. They didn't find Planet 9, but now we know where not to look.

Farewell, 14nm: Intel Launches Alder Lake
Farewell, 14nm: Intel Launches Alder Lake

After six years, Intel is ready to move on from 14nm. Fortunately, it built a chip worth moving to.

Facebook Planned to Target Six Year Olds to Compensate for Teen Departures
Facebook Planned to Target Six Year Olds to Compensate for Teen Departures

Again, Facebook seems to have forgotten to ask itself whether something they can do is something they should do.

Epic Shuts Down Fortnite in China
Epic Shuts Down Fortnite in China

Epic has not provided a reason for the shutdown, but we can safely assume it has something to do with the Chinese government's tightening restrictions on video games.

Switch Modder Pleads Guilty to Piracy, Will Pay Nintendo $4.5 Million
Switch Modder Pleads Guilty to Piracy, Will Pay Nintendo $4.5 Million

A few years ago, a group called Team Xecuter began releasing mod kits for the Nintendo Switch. That's nothing new — cracking game consoles to run homebrew software has been common for ages. However, most people modding their consoles do so to play pirated ROMs, and Team Xecuter made the mistake of leaning into the piracy angle.

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Far Deeper Than Previously Known
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Far Deeper Than Previously Known

New data from the first-ever 3D view of Jupiter's atmosphere shows that the roots of the planet's Great Red Spot extend deeper into the planet than we knew.

5-Day Stimulation Treatment Effective Against Depression
5-Day Stimulation Treatment Effective Against Depression

Researchers at Stanford University appear to have found a way to treat persistent depression using magnetic brain stimulation.

Apple’s Most Backordered Product is a $19 Cloth
Apple’s Most Backordered Product is a $19 Cloth

If the cloth was on your holiday shopping list this year, now’s the time to find something else.

Amazon to Launch First Kuiper Internet Satellites Next Year on Pint-Sized RS1 Rocket
Amazon to Launch First Kuiper Internet Satellites Next Year on Pint-Sized RS1 Rocket

While the retail giant doesn't expect to have a fully deployed network until the latter half of the decade, it will begin orbital testing as soon as late 2022 thanks to a launch contract with a little-known entity called ABL Space Systems.

5D Optical Disc Could Store 500TB for Billions of Years
5D Optical Disc Could Store 500TB for Billions of Years

Hard drives and flash storage have gotten more reliable over the years, but only on a human timescale. What if we need data storage that lasts longer? Decades? Millennia? The key to that might be 5D optical storage, which has a data density 10,000 times that of a Blu-ray disc.

New Analysis of Iconic Miller-Urey Origin of Life Experiment Asks More Questions Than It Answers
New Analysis of Iconic Miller-Urey Origin of Life Experiment Asks More Questions Than It Answers

Building on the original Miller-Urey experiments, new work shows that some ingredients of the "primordial soup" came from a thoroughly unexpected place. The results may have implications for our search for life off-planet — as well as our quest to understand how it arose here on Earth.