No Going Back Is Modern Noir Fiction At Its Finest Award-winning novelist Sheena Kamal’s latest continues the story of her protagonist Nora Watts, and like her previous work it’s hard-hitting, action-packed and a genuine entry into the world of noir fiction. No Going Back once again follows the story of …

Report: The 10th Gen Intel Core Family Draws as Much Power as an RTX 2080 The launch date of Intel’s 10th Generation Core family is drawing nearer. As it does, reports are surfacing confirming that at least the upper-tier CPUs in this family will have a power consumption best described …

As baseball keeps talking about ways to stage a season of some kind, the latest possibility involves splitting the season between Arizona and Florida and realigning the 30 teams into new leagues and divisions. According to a report from USA Today’s Bob Nightengale, the American League and National League would …

Google Might Use Custom 5nm Samsung Chip in Pixel 5 Instead of Snapdragon 865 Most high-end smartphones launching in 2020 will have the Snapdragon 865 inside, but that might not include Google’s upcoming Pixel 5. A new report claims Google and Samsung are working on a new custom system-on-a-chip (SoC) …

Apple and Google Team Up to Fight Coronavirus With Bluetooth Most of the world is on lockdown right now as the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread, but that won’t be the case forever. After we’re all allowed to go outside again, it will be up to public health experts to …

Microsoft Said to Be Pivoting Windows 10X to Single-Screen Devices When Microsoft demoed Windows 10X (pronounced like the letter X, not the Roman numeral 10) last year, the company declared that this version of Windows was specifically intended for dual-screen devices like the upcoming Surface Pro Neo (now delayed until …

After We Bend the Curve: What We Need to Unwind the Great Lockdown As optimism grows that many areas around the world, including much of the US, are successfully “bending the curve” of the spread of COVID-19, there’s reason to hope the worst of the current wave of infections is …

Mercury-Bound Satellite Slingshots Around Earth Today (VIDEO) It’s been a few years since we’ve talked about BepiColombo, the joint ESA / JAXA spacecraft headed for Mercury. When last we checked in with the probe, scientists were testing its ion drive. BepiColombo features the most powerful ion engine ever built. On …

Neanderthals Were Capable of Making Cords Archaeologists working at the Neanderthal site of Abri du Maras in France have discovered a 46,000-year-old cord fragment — the oldest known direct evidence of fiber technology. A cord fragment from the site of Abri du Maras, France. Image credit: C2RMF. Neanderthals are often …

Scientists Use X-rays to Peer inside Fossilized Dinosaur Eggs Powerful X-ray beams at the European Synchrotron in France allowed an international team of researchers to study some of the world’s oldest and well-preserved dinosaur embryos and reconstruct them in 3D. The clutch of Massospondylus carinatus eggs. Image credit: Brett Eloff. …