Humans and other mammals are limited to seeing a range of wavelengths of light called visible light, which includes the wavelengths of the rainbow. But infrared radiation, which has a longer wavelength, is all around us. People, animals and objects emit infrared light as they give off heat, and objects …

  The NASA Commercial Crew Program is one step closer to sending astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) today. After years of development and months of planning for this specific launch, the SpaceX crewed Dragon capsule (AKA Dragon II) successfully completed a demo flight to dock with the ISS. …

  HBO CEO Richard Plepler has announced his retirement from the company, less than a year after ATT bought it and the rest of Time Warner Inc. Plepler’s departure is thought to be the result of ongoing conflicts with the leadership ATT brought in as a result of the merger …

  As CPU performance improvements have slowed down, we’ve seen the semiconductor industry move towards accelerator cards to provide dramatically better results. Nvidia has been a major beneficiary of this shift, but it’s part of the same trend driving research into neural network accelerators, FPGAs, and products like Google’s TPU. …

  Samsung’s Galaxy S10 family of phones will launch in the coming days, and the company has spared no expense on the hardware. Just looking at the price tags will tell you as much. Naturally, these phones have the latest generation of Samsung’s OLED panel technology, which it calls Super …

Bing Ads has rolled out Maximize Clicks to all accounts globally. It first introduced the automated bidding strategy in 2017. How does it work? With the Maximize Clicks strategy, the system will automatically set and adjust bids to get the most clicks for the daily budget. Are there any controls? Yes, …

We increasingly are talking to our phones in public. That’s the top-line finding of a new study from Stone Temple Consulting (now a part of Perficient Digital). In its third year, the survey polled 1,719 U.S. adults on “how they use voice, when they use voice, and why.” In nearly every …

DuckDuckGo is the little engine that could. The platform, which touts its ability to protect users’ privacy, recently said that it experienced surging year-over-year user traffic for 2018 and that it is already on pace for even stronger search usage in 2019. Also, Apple and DuckDuckGo formed a partnership to …

  The 500 Startups Japan crew is going independent. The VC firm announced a $30 million fund in 2015, and now the follow up is a new $45 million fund called Coral Capital. Helmed by James Riney and Yohei Sawayama, just like 500 Startups Japan, Coral will essentially continue the …

Observations by ESA’s Mars Express orbiter show evidence of an ancient planet-wide groundwater system on the Red Planet. Mosaic of the Valles Marineris hemisphere of Mars projected into point perspective, a view similar to that which one would see from a spacecraft. The distance is 1,550 miles (2,500 km) from …