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An artist’s rendition of the binary stay system, called CPD-29 2176.Illustration: Noir Lab The universe has no shortage of oddities, and researchers at the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab have observed another one in the form of a particular binary star system. The system, called CPD-29 2176, will eventually trigger a kilonova, a celestial event in […]

The tech startup Enigma Labs wants to turn UFO sightings into data science.  Previously, people who had seen strange lights darting around the sky could do no more than tell their friends—or call intelligence agencies. Soon, anyone with a smartphone will be able to use an app to report an unexplainable event as it happens. […]

Everyone who’s seen Season 1 of The White Lotus will know that Murray Bartlett’s character, hotel manager Armond, is probably going to have a tough time popping back up again in a future series. But according to Bartlett, that possibility might not be so far flung after all. “When we were shooting White Lotus, the […]

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is expected to appear before Congress in March to face questions from lawmakers over US user safety and security on the popular video app, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal.  The Energy and Commerce Committee confirmed the hearing in a press release Monday announcing that the TikTok chief […]

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Rumor has it that Apple is going to debut its own search engine “sooner rather than later.” This is good news for consumers as competition between Apple and Google means more resources would be spent to do search even better, but oddly enough it’s also good news for Google on one front — the battle […]

⚡ Welcome to The Weekly Authority, the  Android Authority newsletter that breaks down the top Android and tech news from the week. The 229th edition is here with Pixel Tablet Pro leaks, Samsung’s big news ahead of Galaxy Unpacked, a OnePlus tablet, Dead Space reviews, and real-life tractor beams. 🤮 This week, I attempted to […]

An anonymous reader shares a report: When Safari users in Hong Kong recently tried to load the popular code-sharing website GitLab, they received a strange warning instead: Apple’s browser was blocking the site for their own safety. The access was temporarily cut off thanks to Apple’s use of a Chinese corporate website blacklist, which resulted […]

Although I don’t subscribe to the idea that history or technology moves in jerky one-year increments, it’s still valuable to take stock at the start of a new year, look at what happened last year, and decide what was important and what wasn’t. We started the year with many people talking about an “AI winter.” […]

Three weeks ago, panic swept across some corners of the security world after researchers discovered a breakthrough that, at long last, put the cracking of the widely used RSA encryption scheme within reach by using quantum computing. Scientists and cryptographers have known for two decades that a factorization method known as Shor’s algorithm makes it […]