A Google Street View car spotted a missing criminal and it led to an arrest
You can’t hide from Google. An escaped convict learned that the hard way in December, after he was arrested by police in the Spanish town of Galapagar. It seems that, according to an investigator who spoke with Reuters, a photo of the man appeared on Google Street View — sparking a deeper investigation. The Street […]
This 3-wheeled electric car that mines cryptocurrency is apparently real
If there wasn’t video, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was all some kind of joke. Back in October, the Canadian vehicle manufacturer Daymak claimed it was making a three-wheeled electric car which would, in its downtime, mine bitcoin, ethereum, or dogecoin. Well, we finally got a look at the apparently real thing. In a […]
Colossal Webb telescope completes a phenomenal feat in space
Thomas Zurbuchen can finally shave. Zurbuchen, NASA’s associate administrator of its Science Mission Directorate, said he wouldn’t shave until the James Webb Space Telescope — which will peer at the first galaxies and stars (along with fascinating worlds) — was fully deployed in space. To fit the giant telescope on a rocket (it’s half the […]
NASA Mars rover's mission interrupted by Elmo's nemesis: A small rock.
Elmo isn’t the only one struggling to deal with a small rock in recent days. On Friday, NASA’s Twitter account for the Mars-researching Perseverance rover blasted out some news and a set of photos to go with it: The rover is having trouble stowing away its latest collected sample of the Mars landscape because some […]
Elon Musk jacks up price of questionably named 'full self driving'
Tesla’s promise of “full self driving” is about to get even more expensive. According to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the cost of the “full self-driving” feature, which is still in Beta and does not make Tesla’s fully autonomous, will raise to $12,000 this month. It’s currently a $10,000 add on. “Tesla FSD price rising to […]
Hubble snaps a deceptive image of two majestic, distant galaxies
The legendary Hubble Space Telescope has, somehow, outdone itself. NASA published its first Hubble image of 2022, and it’s replete with cosmic treats. The background of this deep view of the cosmos is littered with far-off galaxies, a star shines vividly atop the frame, and two great galaxies look like they’re bound to collide. Yet, […]
Amazed scientists watched a giant star explode for the first time
There’s a vivid, reddish star in the night sky. Called Betelgeuse, it’s found in the famous constellation Orion and over millions of years has swelled in size, earning it the title of a “red supergiant.” Betelgeuse, over 500 light-years from Earth, will eventually collapse on itself — or perhaps the distant star already has — […]
The 5 weirdest LG announcements from CES 2022
The annual Consumer Electronics Show is always a showcase for the most ambitious consumer tech coming in the near future, but one company stood out in terms of the breadth of weirdness on display. South Korean electronics giant LG brought the heat at CES 2022, with a bunch of ideas that may or may not […]
The 5 coolest work-from-home tech upgrades at CES 2022
Well, here we go again. For a lot of folks, 2022 promises even more working from home, whether by choice or not. The good news is that nearly two full years of empty offices in parts of the world have accelerated the progress of work-from-home technology. That was plenty evident at CES 2022, the tech […]
All the electric bikes and scooters that rolled into CES 2022
From my San Francisco office it felt like this year’s partially virtual CES tech conference in Las Vegas was overrun with electric bicycles, e-scooters, and battery-powered motorcycles and mopeds. A virtual event on the first day of the show corralled dozens of companies, like Bosch, Giant, Rad Power Bikes, Serial 1 (Harley-Davidson’s e-bike brand), Panasonic, […]