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A few short decades ago, we could only speculate about the possibility of planets beyond our own solar system, but then we started finding them. Little by little, the universe has become a bustling place with more exoplanets being discovered every year. How many? NASA JPL says as of March …

Meta announced on Wednesday a new set of tools designed to protect young users, an overdue response to widespread criticism that the company doesn’t do enough to protect its most vulnerable users. Parents, tech watchdogs and lawmakers alike have long called for the company to do more to keep teens …

An inquisitive GPU modder who was experiencing insane memory temperatures has come up with a unique solution to the problem: tiny squares of copper. YouTuber DJ from DandyWorks recently published a video documenting his novel approach to heat dissipation. In the video he ditched the card’s thermal pads and replaced …

The James Webb Space Telescope finally headed into space late last year following years of delays, but everything since then has gone as well as possible. NASA has spent the last several months deploying and calibrating the telescope, and it just hit a major milestone with the completion of “fine …

When exoplanets come up, we’re usually adding to the total number of known worlds beyond our solar system, but not today. MIT astronomers applied the latest astronomical data to Kepler’s archive of exoplanets, finding several that no longer add up. According to the study published in the Astronomical Journal, there …

At yesterday’s Peek Performance event Apple pulled the wraps off an all-new “desktop” PC, the Mac Studio. Aesthetically, it looks like a Mac Mini that gained a few quarantine pounds. The company also unveiled a new 27″ display to go with it, with both products landing in a new “studio” …

Apple’s new M1 Ultra SoC, announced yesterday, appears to be a genuine breakthrough. The new M1 Ultra is made from two M1 Max chips and features a new GPU integration approach not seen in-market before. While the SoC contains two GPUs — one per M1 Max — games and applications …

There is currently a chasm in the Mac desktop lineup in between the entry-level Mac Mini, and the expensive Mac Pro. The Mac Mini pricing starts at $699, and the Mac Pro starts at $5,999 (and goes to the stratosphere), so that’s quite a gulf.To remedy this, Apple is reportedly …

Samsung released the Galaxy S22 family last week, and the early response has been good. The more technical among Samsung’s fans have noted something troubling, though. The phones use a “Game Optimizing Service” almost constantly to throttle apps — if you can think of an app, it’s probably throttled. The …

Geoscientists haven’t found a lot of surprise craters on Earth since satellite technology became commonplace. Still, the complex geological processes on this blue marble can occasionally conceal a secret. Several years ago, scientists discovered a crater hiding under Greenland’s ice sheet. At the time, they believed it was between three …