These 17th-century drawings of the sun by Kepler add fire to solar cycle mystery
Kepler’s sun drawings are the oldest sunspot records with known dates.
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Google pulls its terrible pro-AI “Dear Sydney” ad after backlash
Enlarge (credit: The Gemini prompt box in the ) Have you seen Google’s “Dear Sydney” ad? The one where a young girl wants to write a fan letter to Olympic hurdler Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone? To which the girl’s dad responds that…
DOJ sues TikTok, alleging “massive-scale invasions of children’s privacy”
Enlarge (credit: NurPhoto / Contributor | NurPhoto) The US Department of Justice sued TikTok today, accusing the short-video platform of illegally collecting data on millions of kids and demanding a permanent injunction “to put an end to TikTok’s unlawful massive-scale…
Buying shady weight loss drugs online is a bad idea, in case you were wondering
Enlarge (credit: ) Buying counterfeit weight loss drugs from illegal online pharmacies that don’t require prescriptions is, in fact, a very bad idea, according to a study published Friday in JAMA Network Open. The counterfeit drugs are sold as equivalents…
Legendary ROM hacking site shutting down after almost 20 years
Enlarge / A thing that exists through ROM hacking, and ROMHacking.net: Super Mario Land 2, in color. (credit: Nintendo/Toruzz) If there was something wrong with an old game, or you wanted to make a different version of it, and you…
Dangerous strains of ‘hypervirulent’ superbug detected in US and 15 other countries
A drug-resistant bacterium that causes severe infections has been spreading globally, and it’s now in at least 16 countries, the WHO warns.
Pot overflowing with gold coins discovered in ancient Greek city in Turkey
The coins were found beneath a home and were likely hidden by mercenaries.
Silicon plus perovskite solar reaches 34 percent efficiency
Enlarge / Some solar panels, along with a diagram of a perovskite’s crystal structure. (credit: Subhakitnibhat Kewiko) As the price of silicon panels has continued to come down, we’ve reached the point where they’re a small and shrinking cost of…
NZXT wants you to pay up to $169/month to rent a gaming PC
Enlarge / NZXT’s subscription program charges $169/month for this build. (credit: NZXT) NZXT, which sells gaming PCs, components, and peripherals, has a subscription program that charges a monthly fee to rent one of its gaming desktops. Subscribers don’t own the…
Meet ‘small diver’: One of the tiniest penguins ever discovered
A tiny extinct penguin from New Zealand is key to understanding penguin wing evolution, researchers say.
