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Solar in Space
Researchers have shown how robots could build enormous structures like solar power arrays in space instead of risking astronauts. A collaboration between the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and space-tech firm Space Solar has shown that such remote-controlled robots might soon be constructing gigantic solar power stations above our heads. It’s not just cool tech for tech’s sake, though. This could fundamentally change how we approach building large structures in orbit...
App Store Age
Google and Apple will soon be required to verify app store users’ ages in Texas, after Gov. Greg Abbott signed the rule into law on Tuesday. The Texas App Store Accountability Act follows similar legislation that passed in Utah earlier this year, although it requires the app stores to collect even more user data. Enforcement of the Texas law is set to begin at the start of next year
Apple
Apple, best known for iPhones, MacBooks and other sleek devices, might make your next favorite video game. The tech giant on Tuesday confirmed to CNET that it bought the two-person studio RAC7 -- the same studio that created the popular Apple Arcade exclusive Sneaky Sasquatch.
Mr. Beast
Mexico is seeking compensation from the producers of a MrBeast video and has accused the US YouTuber of exploiting its ancient pyramids for commercial gain. But in one part of the video produced by Full Circle Media, which has received more than 60 million views in a week, MrBeast advertises a chocolate product as a "Mayan dessert" and urges viewers to buy it. Authorities said that while they had granted permission to film at the sites, they had not permitted for-profit use.
Sun
The Parker Solar Probe zoomed by the sun on Tuesday during a record-breaking flyby, coming within 3.8 million miles of the solar surface during humanity’s closest approach to a star. The mission operations team, located at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, was able to confirm the success of the flyby Friday morning after receiving a signal from the spacecraft just before midnight on Thursday.
Vision Pro
Apple Inc. is developing a feature for its Vision Pro headset that lets users scroll through software with their eyes, aiming to enhance the device with a novel interface. The eye-scrolling capability is being tested as part of visionOS 3, an upcoming version of the Vision Pro’s operating system, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Already, the headset lets users navigate the software by looking at objects and then selecting them by pinching their fingers.
G Logo
Google has quietly updated its logo, debuting a soft-focus version of the G icon first introduced by the tech company in 2015. The revamped design was unceremoniously rolled out earlier this week across the Google app on iOS and Android, according to tech blog 9to5Google... It marks the first time the circular icon has been updated since it replaced Google's all-blue lowercase g nearly a decade ago, when the company updated its wordmark to the minimalist sans-serif Product Sans.
Deep Sea Creature
Scientists stunned as deep-sea camera captures elusive creature nearly 5,000 meters below the ocean's surface: "The animal disappears from view." An amazing creature that lives deep in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean was captured in time-lapse photographs, allowing scientists to learn more about the role it plays on the seafloor.
Spyware
The Israeli firm behind the Pegasus spyware has been ordered to pay WhatsApp $167m (£125m) for hacking 1,400 people in 2019. Pegasus is malicious software which can be installed remotely on mobile phones to access, among other things, people's microphones and cameras. NSO Group, which sells the tech, has been accused of enabling authoritarian regimes to monitor journalists, activists and even political figures.
Skype Over
Microsoft's Skype has finally shut down, concluding its 22-year tenure as the once-dominant internet calling and messaging service. The service steadily declined in relevance in recent years, with its active user base shrinking to approximately 36 million by 2023 as competitors such as Zoom, WhatsApp, and Microsoft's own Teams platform gained traction.
iPhone Malware
Apple users are being urged to update their devices ASAP after cyber sleuths uncovered a major flaw that could let hackers get into their gadgets. What’s being called “AirBorne” allows hackers to deploy malware, snoop on your private data, or even eavesdrop on your conversations when connected to the same Wi-Fi network as your devices, which includes public places like airports, coffee shops, or even your work office.
Apple Glasses
Apple is continuing to develop its own pair of smart glasses. The product, now codenamed N50, is going to infuse some of the companies AI developments into a pair of glasses that hopefully won’t break the bank. It’s no secret that Apple’s true end goal is to develop industry-leading augmented reality glasses. However, we’re at least a few years from that being feasible for a consumer product.
De-extinct
From an Australian frog that swallowed its own eggs to woolly mammoths, scientists are getting ever closer to being able to bring long-lost species back from the dead... Thanks to recent advances in genetics, namely the advent of gene editing technology Crispr-Cas9, the thylacine is not the only lost species that we could soon see again. How does the science of de-extinction work, and what kinds of ethical questions does it raise?
Flying Boat
Tackling carbon emissions from shipping has proved a tricky challenge. Artemis Technologies has a potential solution. Spun out from the renowned America Cup winning Artemis Racing, Artemis Tech developed the eFoiler, the world’s first commercially viable, zero emission propulsion solution for high speed maritime transport. The technology lifts the boat out of the water so that it ‘flies’ across its surface.
Dire Wolf
Colossal Biosciences announcement that it had used the DNA of an extinct ice age-era dire wolf to breed new, live wolves has sparked excitement, and some fear. There's certainly eerie similarities to “Jurassic Park”, the movie where dinosaurs came back to life. “We see no possible way this could go wrong,” wrote the social media account for the spin-off movie franchise Jurassic World, in tongue-in-cheek response to the news.
Messages
Google Messages is rolling out a built-in “Unsubscribe” button to give you an easy way to shut down those automated texts for good. Mishaal Rahman over at Android Authority has spotted a fresh new feature popping up in Google Messages. It's a little prompt at the end of spammy texts that says, “unsubscribe to stop receiving messages.” Once you tap it, you’ll get a quick pop-up asking why you’re opting out.
Batteries
Batteries for electric vehicles are notoriously difficult to recycle, but growing demand for the rare metals they contain is leading to innovative new ways of retrieving them from used power cells. What arrives here is a dark powder called "black mass"- a substance derived from pulverizing batteries almost to oblivion. Each particle is less than a millimeter across.
AI & Copyright
The United States Copyright Office (Office) has released Part 2 of its Report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence which addresses the copyrightability of AI-generated works. With Copyrightability for AI-generated works: for any work to be copyrightable in the U.S., the Office affirms that the human authorship must contain some degree of originality and cannot be merely the result of time and effort. Part 2 at 8, citing Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co., 499 U.S. 340, 352–61 (1991).
Gates
Want to see the original source code that started Microsoft? Bill Gates is sharing it. On Wednesday, the Microsoft co-founder posted on his Gates Notes blog, reminiscing about the company's early days for its 50th anniversary this year. Gates has certainly written plenty of code over those five decades, but he called this "the coolest code I've ever written" and shared a photo of himself holding a huge pile of paper showing the code.
Minecraft
The psychology behind why children are hooked on Minecraft. There could be deep psychological- even evolutionary- factors behind the success of Minecraft and games like it, say experts. Such games tap into an innate instinct within all of us- one that underpins the success of our entire species. The desire to build.
Microplastics
Microplastics are everywhere. They have been found on the peak of Mount Everest and in creatures inhabiting the deepest trenches of the sea. But scientists in China have come up with a possible solution: a biodegradable sponge made of squid bones and cotton. They then tested the sponge in four different water samples, taken from irrigation water, pond water, lake water and sea water, and found it removed up to 99.9% of microplastics, according to a study published last month in Science Advances.
Nintendo
Coming in an April system update, Nintendo is introducing a new game management system called “virtual game cards.” Virtual game cards also make sharing games between consoles simpler. Using a local wi-fi connection, you can use virtual game cards to transfer digital games between Switch 1 and Switch 2 consoles. But perhaps the most interesting aspect of this feature is that now, you’ll be able to lend games to members of your Nintendo Switch Family account.
Instacart
Instacart is introducing a new way for shoppers to make money: taking videos of store shelves “one aisle at a time.” The new earning opportunity, called Store View, will allow Instacart to determine which products are available, as well as which ones are out of stock. Instacart says Store View will also help its predictive models estimate when a store will restock a particular product.
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