In by far the funniest signing of the offseason so far, Lance Stephenson will join Le Bron James with the Los Angeles Lakers, as first reported by Yahoo Sports Shams Charania. Stephenson and James have plenty of history, dating back to Stephenson taunting James from the bench in the 2012 …
Read More »Osaka Is Ready To Take on Wimbledon
Having claimed her first WTA title at the hardcourt Indian Wells in March, Osaka said she also felt confident of her grass-court skill this season, having made it to the Nottingham Open semifinals before losing to No. “I think the goal is always to win,” Osaka said at a press …
Read More »What Are The Orange Ribbons For?
Mahans sister-in-law, Katie Enloe, has been battling leukemia since January, but was sent home from the hospital to spend her final days with family. Katie is married to SMU golf coach Jason Enloe, who is also a former Web.com Tour player. Enloe is suffering from the same leukemia that professional …
Read More »Japan Tests Silicon for Exascale Computing in 2021
Fujitsu doesn’t have a reputation as a major microprocessor developer the way AMD, Intel, or ARM do, but the company’s supercomputer and HPC work has resulted in multiple generations of high-performance systems, historically built on the SPARC architecture. Now the company is working on the successor to the K supercomputer …
Read More »Facebook Files Patent For Exactly the Kind of Spying It Claims It Doesn’t Do
For years, Facebook users and journalists have noticed that the service has an unsettling habit of serving up advertisements related to topics they’d often been discussing in their personal lives or had no previous habit of Googling. The question of whether Facebook listens to conversations going on around us has …
Read More »Floating IBM Robot Ships Out to International Space Station
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched to the International Space Station (ISS) in the wee hours Friday morning. The unmanned mission will bring new supplied and instruments to the station, along with something a bit… different. A floating robotic head called CIMON (Crew Interactive Mobile Companion) will soon be buzzing …
Read More »Canada Day Activities Across The Country
Photo: happysoultoronto on Instagram As Canada Day fast approaches, Canadians everywhere are searching for the perfect way to pay homage to our home country. Besides blessing us with the wonders of maple syrup, hockey and Drake, the True North is also a beautiful, free land where many cultures live together in …
Read More »It’s National Camera Day: Here Are Our Staff’s Personal Favorites
While none of us had National Camera Day circled on our calendar as a big thing, it’s a good opportunity to take stock of what cameras we use and why. So we polled the ExtremeTech staff to offer you this roundup of how each of us currently approaches our photography …
Read More »Paleontologists Discover Two New Hoofed Mammals from Miocene Epoch
An international team of paleontologists has identified two new species of ancient mammals that lived about 13 million years ago (middle Miocene epoch) in what is now Bolivia. Theosodon arozquetai (left) and Llullataruca shockeyi. Image credit: Velizar Simeonovski. The two newly-discovered Miocene species, named Theosodon arozquetai and Llullataruca shockeyi, belong …
Read More »Experiment Provides Further Insights into Higgs Boson Physics
A new experiment by physicists at the University of Bonn, Germany, has achieved a Higgs-like state in a system composed of ultracold atoms. Excitation spectra of the Higgs-like state: (a) excitation spectra of the Higgs-like state for different interaction strengths, 1/(kFa); the different levels of background condensate fraction are due …
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