Technology

There are appropriate periods to understand the fundamentals of a potential acquisition (preferably before any money is exchanged), and then there are the three weeks following the completion of the transaction on the platform that you have just purchased. Elon Musk revealed yesterday that he is unaware of the website’s …

Players of the long-running Microsoft Flight Simulator series have discovered a secret that allows you to play the first four games inside the cockpit of one of the game’s planes. The 40th Anniversary update for the game, which went out on Friday, also included the Easter egg. You can play …

Now is the time for governments, banks, and tech firms to collaborate and discuss how payments and currencies will function in the metaverse. Many believe that the metaverse will be an immersive, virtual environment where people interact with one another via “avatars,” despite the fact that it is yet mostly …

The Big Friendly Gun, or BFG for short, is a 22-meter (72-foot) steel prototype gun that shoots a bullet at astronomical speeds into a fuel pellet to produce nuclear fusion reactions. The original word for the BFG, however, was probably not “friendly.” The gun was developed by UK startup First …

According to Bloomberg, a crypto billionaire lost a staggering 94 percent of his wealth in a single day, breaking a record for the most money ever lost. Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, had an estimated value of $17 billion earlier this week. He had …

We went to Amazon’s BOS27 robotics factory to talk about how package sorting and last-mile delivery are changing. A tranquil town of 22,000 people, Westborough, Massachusetts, is located 40 minutes by vehicle southeast of Boston. One of the town’s more recent residents is BOS27. A little more than a year …

Later this month, your iPhone 14 or 14 Pro will be able to make satellite calls to emergency services, according to a release issued by Apple on Thursday regarding its $450 million investment in the technology. When a person is beyond the cell service coverage area, Apple claims that the …

Since Elon Musk became CEO two weeks ago, Twitter has modified the blue tick verification process three times. The most recent adjustment makes people wonder what a Twitter Blue subscription is for while bringing the system a little closer to what verification meant prior to Musk taking over. Soon after …

We are getting closer to the ultimate aim of practical quantum computing with IBM’s announcement of the huge 433-qubit “Osprey” quantum processor. The company is aiming for a 4,000-Qubit processor by 2025, and it seems to be on track to scale up its quantum chips to previously unheard-of levels. This …

Shuffles, a new collage-making app from Pinterest, is now accessible to everyone after earlier this summer’s invitation-only test period. The app gained a following among Gen Z users, who made “aesthetic” collages using the creative expression tool and shared them publicly on TikTok or privately with their friends or the …