Tim Sweezy
Tech Editor
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While October may have ended in a spectacular fashion with a headless comet meeting its demise, November promises to be just as exciting for skywatchers. Be sure to be on the lookout for three different meteor showers that promise to provide plenty of shooting stars.
The first of three upcoming meteor showers to...
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The holiday shopping season is nearly upon us, and there is no better time to get started than now with some great deals currently running on a number of Apple products. Whether someone is buying for a student who needs a new laptop, or someone who has an audiophile on their list, there are a bunch of deals in the...
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After being on the Dow Jones Industrial Average for 25 years, Intel is being replaced by tech rival NVIDIA. The news of Intel being removed from the Dow comes in the same week the tech bellwether reported a $16.6 billion dollar loss in the third quarter of 2024.
In a press release, the S&P Dow Jones Indices...
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Microsoft is once again delaying the release of Recall, its controversial AI feature. After an previous delay, Recall was supposed to be made available for testing with Windows Insiders last month, however the tech giant says it still needs more time to refine it.
As Microsoft kicked off the Copilot+ PC era earlier...
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As scientists and others look at how to make Mars habitable for life in the future, NASA’s Perseverance rover remains busy exploring the Martian surface. The rover recently spotted a striped rock unlike any other on the Red Planet before, which the space agency stated possessed qualities that may be indicators of...
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Apple gave a behind-the-scenes look into how the company went about adding a hearing aid feature to its AirPods Pro 2 earbuds recently. The science behind the feature was fine-tuned at Apple’s state-of-the-art Audio Lab in Cupertino, California, where acoustic engineers conducted user studies in various listening...
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Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, which was viewed up close by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1986, has been the focus of more than a few studies over the last few decades. One of the more recent studies included planetary scientists clearing up a perplexing problem surrounding the planet’s weaker-than-anticipated...
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Apple just wraped up its week full of announcements with its refreshed MacBook Pro lineup, featuring the new family of M4 chips. The new laptops from the Cupertino-based company will offer an advanced 12MP Center Stage camera, Thunderbolt 5 on M4 Pro and M4 Max models, an option of an all-new nano-texture display, and...
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Boeing may be looking to call it quits in terms of its space program after its Starliner debacle caused the company and its employees months of humiliation. Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg reportedly wants to offload Starliner, the projects that support the International Space Station, and the majority of the company’s space...
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NASA reconnected with its Voyager 1 spacecraft more than 15 billion miles from Earth by flipping the switch on a backup radio not used on the spacecraft since 1981. The space agency reported Voyager 1 recently turned off one of its two radio transmitters, and the team is currently working to figure out what caused...
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NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft captured the moment when a headless Halloween comet flew too close to the Sun and vaporized. Comet 2024 S1 ATLAS reached its perihelion, or closest approach to the Sun on Sunday around 7:30am ET.
Comet 2024 S1 was first discovered on September 27, 2024, in...
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At long last, Apple has finally unleashed its much ballyhooed Apple Intelligence onto its iPhone, iPad, and Mac devices, including its brand new M4 iMac lineup. People who own a supported device can now "tap into Apple Intelligence" to experience a new Siri, refine their writing, and more.
The Cupertino-based tech...
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Apple just announced its new iMac lineup powered by its M4 chip and Apple Intelligence. The new iMac will sport a 4.5K Retina display, while also offering a new nano-texture glass option, similar to the latest iPad Pro.
Apple made the announcement about its new M4 iMacs while the Cupertino-based company is also...
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Fan favorite Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete gets an official release date for iOS and Android. The current free-to-play version, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, will shut down after a seven year run on November 29, 2024.
Animal Crossing: New Horizon players were saddened when Nintendo announced the 2.0 update...
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Researchers from Japan’s National Astronomical Observatory (NAOJ) are throwing shade at the now iconic image of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). The image in question, constructed by another group of researchers from data collected by the EHT...
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NASA says a bus-sized asteroid is about to make a close approach, coming within 148,000 miles of Earth. According to the space agency, the asteroid, named 2024 UQ1, measures approximately 32-feet across.
Astronomers and scientists are constantly on the lookout for large space rocks that could pose a threat to...
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Leading analysts say Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 on Game Pass will hurt overall sales, but will be a big boon for Xbox Game Pass. The analysts suggest offering Call of Duty on Game Pass could cause up to six million lost sales of the game, but with three to four million new sign-ups up for Game Pass.
Earlier this...
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A terminally ill and enthusiastic Borderlands fan has gotten a quick response from Gearbox co-founder Randy Pitchford to his plea to get a glimpse of Borderlands 4 early. Caleb McAlpine was recently diagnosed with terminal stage 4 cancer, with doctors estimating he has 12 months to live.
While the Borderlands...
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A supernova event recorded by Chinese and Japanese astronomers in 1181 is at the heart of a first-of-its-kind 3D animated map, unveiling new secrets of a flowering “zombie star.” Supernova Sn 1181 is one of the few to be documented before the invention of telescopes.
The zombie star in question was first discovered...
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Google DeepMind announced it has developed a tool for identifying AI-generated text, and is making it available via open source. SynthID is a technology from Google DeepMind that watermarks and identifies AI-generated content by embedding digital watermarks directly into AI-generated images, audio, text, or...
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A headless Halloween comet looks to round out an October that's chock-full of celestial delights. Comet 2024 S1 (Atlas) is on track to make its close approach to the Sun on October 28, and is currently visible in the Southern Hemisphere.
October has been a great month for stargazers, with the ability to see an...
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Proposals to combat climate change have ranged from placing data centers in space, to a lunar missions designed to dim the Sun with Moon dust. Now, a new study suggests using $200 trillion worth of diamond dust to create an umbrella over Earth to fight climate change. The group of scientists using 3D models to compare...
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