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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Nvidia has agreed to pay $5. 5 million in fines to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission in order to settle charges that it failed to disclose how many of its GPUs were being sold for cryptocurrency mining, the agency announced today . These charges are unrelated to the current […]
Enlarge / Amazon’s new purchase explainer and the “learn more” link. Following up on its earlier move to pull Audible audiobook purchases from its Play Store app, Amazon is also turning off Kindle digital book purchases on Android. The Google Perform purchasing crackdown is to blame, of course. Starting on June 1, Google will require […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty) It’s looking increasingly likely that Wi-Fi 7 will be an option next year. This week, Qualcomm joined the list of chipmakers detailing Wi fi 7 products they expect to be available to homes and businesses soon. The Wifi Alliance, which makes Wi-Fi standards and includes Qualcomm as a member, […]
Yeah yeah, this looks exciting and all, but the spreadsheets are where the real action happens There aren’t many games for which built-in integration with Microsoft Excel would be a major feature whose announcement would draw literal cheers from fans. But Eve Online showed itself to be the exception when developer CCP announced coming Excel […]
Enlarge (credit: Cellar Door Games) There was something insidious about Rogue Legacy , the 2013 platformer “roguelite” developed by Cellar Door Games. I remember sitting down to play the game for the first time on a Friday, and the next thing I knew, it was Sunday night. We emerged from that gaming bender bleary-eyed and […]
Enlarge / A two-megawatt hydrogen-fueled powerplant, designed and built by First Mode in Seattle, is installed in a haul truck at Anglo American’s platinum mine at Mogalakwena, South Africa. This vehicle is the world’s largest zero-emission truck. (credit: Anglo American) Mining will always be an inherently anti-environment activity to some degree due to the whole […]
Enlarge / The vaquita’s population is small, but it may have purged most of its harmful mutations in the past. (credit: David Schneider) With only around 10 individuals left in the world, a tiny porpoise called the vaquita is facing extinction. Somewhat surprisingly, despite the relative shallowness of its gene pool, inbreeding isn’t likely to […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) For years, Dmitriy Sergeyevich Badin sat atop the FBI’s most wanted list. The Russian government-backed hacker has been suspected of cyber attacks on Germany’s Bundestag and the 2016 Olympics, held in Rio de Janeiro. A few weeks into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, his own personal information—including his email and Facebook accounts […]
Enlarge / Tory Bruno shared an image of a brightly painted Vulcan rocket first stage tank this week on Twitter. (credit: Tory Bruno) Welcome to Edition 4.42 of the Rocket Report! I am sorry to say there will be no Rocket Report next week as I will be traveling to Washington, DC, to participate in […]
Enlarge / Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft is seen reentering Earth’s atmosphere on Friday morning. (credit: NASA) After a 177-day spaceflight four astronauts returned to Earth early Friday morning aboard Crew Dragon Endurance. NASA astronauts Kayla Barron, Raja Chari, and Tom Marshburn, as well as European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer, undocked from the International Space Station on Thursday before […]