Tech Rumors

This month, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory accomplished nuclear fusion ignition for the first time. This important milestone demonstrates that controlled fusion, which releases more energy than it absorbs, is possible in the laboratory. Although there is a long way to go before fusion …

Tesla customers: Check your automobiles now. Your new toys are nice. The most noticeable addition to the most recent OTA update was Steam, which includes thousands of titles. However, this software is only available for Model S and X vehicles with 16GB of RAM (only found in vehicles made in …

Alan Shreve will tell you that he established Ngrok in order to address a challenging infrastructure issue he ran into while working at Twilio. Ngrok is a service that enables developers to share websites and applications that are running on their local computers or servers. As an engineer there, Shreve …

By announcing a draft decision on U.S. sufficiency, the European Commission has opened the door for the adoption of a new EU-U.S. data transfer agreement the following year. You can obtain the draft adequacy decision for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF) from this page. The EU executive body and …

Tens of thousands of iPhones and Android devices, the most of whose owners are unaware that their data has been compromised, have had data taken by the little-known phone surveillance program Xnspy. Xnspy is one of many “stalkerware” apps that are marketed for spying on a spouse or domestic partner’s …

The web3 startup Nillion, which aims to create a decentralized network that is not based on a blockchain, closed an oversubscribed round of more than $20 million, the firm exclusively revealed to TechCrunch. According to Andrew Yeoh, the company’s founding chief marketing officer, “Nillion is a deep technical infrastructure project.” …

One aerospace engineer and physics professor claims that space elevators—yes, actual elevators that will lift humans into orbit—might not be as far off from reality as we think. His theories suggest that such a far-fetched idea might become a reality soon; in his wise words: “We’ll know we’re near when …

According to Elon Musk, his brain device Neuralink is ready for human use and may start human testing as soon as it receives US Food and Drug Administration certification (FDA). Musk made a number of audacious assertions about the potential of the implant during a “show and tell” of the …

The space tourism industry is expected to grow significantly over the next ten years, but corporations still need to do more to make the trip exciting. It’s true that you are traveling through space on a hydrogen-powered fireball at a speed of about 28,000 kilometers per hour (17,000 miles per …

Vaughn Langless revealed to investigators for Air Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration News in 2003 that “in 1987, I was involved with the refurbishment of an office facility in Rochester, New York, to make facilities for about 200 telemarketers’ cubicles.” New rooftop heaters and air-handling systems were installed as part of …