Microsoft has announced that it will publish the technical implementation details of the exFAT standard and allow support to be integrated into the Linux kernel at a future date. This is a major change for Microsoft, which once weaponized its FAT patents. While Samsung has published a GPL driver …

  Apple likes to talk up its focus on security and privacy, but iPhone owners have unknowingly been targets of an indiscriminate and severe hacking campaign for at least two years. Google’s Project Zero team uncovered the scheme, which used websites loaded with unpatched exploits to install malware on iPhones …

  Microsoft’s touch-friendly tile UI arrived in Windows 8 where it was forced upon everyone all the time. Microsoft learned its lesson from that, and Windows 10 only uses the full-screen tiles in tablet mode. In the latest Insider build, Microsoft is testing a new approach to tablet functionality. There’s …

For the first time in a long time, the Golden State Warriors have more question marks than answers heading into the 2019-20 NBA season. As were just under two months away from the start of a brand new age in Warriors basketball, lets break down five bold, strongly optimistic predictions …

One of the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics is quantum superposition, in which a particle exists in two or more states simultaneously. In a paper published in the journal Nature Communications, University of Queensland physicist Magdalena Zych and colleagues show that particles are not the only objects that can exist …

Yelp is betting big on personalization. Soon, new screens will allow users to select preferences and favorites that will be used by the company to offer better recommendations and personalized search results. Pet owners, vegans and parents. In the latest version of the Yelp app users will be prompted to …

  NASA has to rethink some tried-and-true approaches to spacecraft navigation as it eyes more distant targets. Spacecraft need extremely accurate location measurements to plan maneuvers, but the way we’ve been doing that can be painfully slow. That’s why NASA launched a new prototype atomic clock into orbit recently. This …

Time for a fight Let’s set the scene. It’s an English pub on the outskirts of London. It’s raining, obviously. There are four of us crowded around a small table. Once upon a time, we worked together. We were teachers back then, and now we’re marketers. Every so often, when …

Carrion crows (Corvus corone), a species of songbird in the family of Corvidae, can voluntarily control the release and onset of their calls, suggesting that songbird calls are under cognitive control, according to new research from the University of Tübingen, Germany. The carrion crow (Corvus corone). Image credit: Ian Kirk …

  SpaceX has big plans for the Starship that include launching deep space missions and colonizing Mars. Before it can do any of that, it has to finish designing the vehicle. The final Starship will be a sci-fi masterpiece of stainless steel, but the Starhopper is its stubby precursor. This …