Mercedes-Benz has unveiled a concept electric vehicle it claims would be able to run for more than 620 miles before needing to recharge. Engadget reports: Should it come to fruition and live up to that promise, the Vision EQXX would beat the range of t…
Samsung Says Its Foldable Shipments Increased Four-Fold In 2021
In a recent blog post, Samsung said it sold four times more foldable devices in 2021 than 2020. The Verge reports: It attributes this success to the arrival of the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Z Flip 3 […]. Samsung says sales for these two devices in their fi…
Building the World’s Brightest X-Ray Laser
Thirty feet underground and a stone’s throw from Stanford University, scientists are putting the finishing touches on a laser that could fundamentally change the way they study the building blocks of the universe. CNET reports: When completed next year…
Fireworks Could Fizzle Out As Drones Rise In Popularity For New Year
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: As new year approaches, crowds around the world may be expecting whizzes and bangs to light up the sky. But the appeal of fireworks could fizzle out with the growing use of drones for light shows. …
Sugar Additive Trehalose Could Have Helped Spread Dangerous Superbug Around the US
A sugar additive used in several foods could have helped spread a seriously dangerous superbug around the US, according to a 2018 study. ScienceAlert reports: The finger of blame is pointed squarely at the sugar trehalose, found in foods such as nutrit…
Approval For AMD’s $35 Billion Xilinx Acquisition Slips To 2022
AMD’s $35 billion acquisition of Xilinx is now expected to close in the first quarter of 2022, which is a few months after AMD and Xilinix’s originally proposed closing of the deal before the end of 2021. Tom’s Hardware reports: AMD has cleared regulat…
Boston Dynamics’ Stretch Can Move 800 Heavy Boxes Per Hour
Stretch is a new robot from Boston Dynamics that can move approximately 800 heavy boxes per hour. As IEEE Spectrum reports, it’s part of “a new generation of robots with the intelligence and flexibility to handle the kind of variation that people take …
Using the Oceans To Store CO2 Could Help Avoid Climate Catastrophe
The experimental process of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it in oceans could help limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, explain Romany Webb and Michael B. Gerrard, both of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Colu…
Apple Shifted To Chinese Suppliers To ‘Cut Costs and Curry Favor With Beijing,’ Report Finds
According to a new report from The Information, Apple has increased its reliance on Chinese partners, both as a way of cutting costs as well as to “curry favor with Beijing.” 9to5Mac reports: Today’s report from The Information comes on the heels of a …
Sega Left One of Its European Servers Wide Open
What could have been a damaging breach in one of Sega’s servers appears to have been closed, according to a report by security firm VPN Overview. Engadget reports: The misconfigured Amazon Web Services S3 bucket contained sensitive information which al…