A team of researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California announced today that they created livermorium, or element 116, using a titanium particle beam for the first time. The achievement puts scientists close to the island of stability, a theorized point where superheavy elements can be long-lived, making them easier to study. “We needed … Read more
Magnify / With Dragon and Falcon, SpaceX has become an important contractor for NASA. SpaceX There’s an emerging truth about NASA’s push toward commercial contracts that’s increasingly hard to escape: Companies not named SpaceX are struggling with NASA’s approach to awarding fixed-price contracts for space services. This belief is underlined by the latest award of … Read more
Apple plans to release at least one iPhone 17 model next year with a mechanical aperture, according to a report published today past The information. The mechanical system would allow users to adjust the size of the iPhone 17’s aperture, which refers to the opening of the camera lens through which light enters. All existing … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO — Meta released a new artificial intelligence model it says rivals technologies from OpenAI and Google — and makes it free for anyone to use. The new model, called Llama 3.1, expands Meta’s strategy to make their models open source, meaning anyone can use and modify them without paying the company. If successful, … Read more
The secret behind life on Earth may be deeper than we thought. Scientists have discovered that metal nodules on the ocean floor produce oxygen in total darkness without the help of living organisms, which could further our understanding of the origins of life. This eye-opening revelation was revealed in a groundbreaking study in the journal … Read more
Magnify / Google, like most of us, has a hard time letting go of cookies. Most of us simply haven’t created a complex set of APIs and brokered deals across regulations and industries to stick to the essential essence of cookies. Getty Images Google has an announcement today: it’s not going to do something it’s … Read more
