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Mark Zuckerberg made his first post in the “fediverse” on Thursday. If you have no idea what the hell that means, join the club. The fediverse is a relatively new concept for social networking, and Threads became the largest member of it this week. Millions of Threads users will soon be able to opt in and “federate” their posts. I know that was a lot of gibberish, but here’s what that means.The Fujifilm X100VI is the Most Fun I’ve Had With a Camera in Years“First post in the fediverse,” said the Meta CEO in a Thursday…

Last Thursday, the Biden administration announced it would investigate the security risks posed by Chinese-made smart cars, which could “collect sensitive data about our citizens and our infrastructure and send this data back to the People’s Republic of China,” the statement from White House claims. While many other technologies from China have been scrutinized because of security concerns, EVs have largely avoided that sort of attention until now. After all, they represent a technology that will greatly help the world…

Researchers on the hunt to settle a long-standing debate ended up rewriting the timeline of ancient human history in the process.For years, archaeologists have argued over an ancient culture with the unwieldy title: the Lincombian-Ranisian-Jerzmanowician technocomplex. Even scientists know that's a mouthful, so they call it the LRJ for short.The LRJ is characterized by the creation of specific blades and leaf points, which share aspects of both Neanderthal and Homo sapien craftsmanship.LRJ stone tools newly excavated…

In a review, Rolling Stone warned moviegoers that the 2021 Marvel movie Eternals “will bore you to death.” Moviegoers were somewhat kinder, giving the picture a solid C+, or 77 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, and they spent close to $165 million domestically to see it, according to The Numbers. But the stigma of being associated with one of the meh-est Marvel movies weighed heavily on one of its stars, Kumail Nanjiani, who entered therapy when critics turned on it. “The reviews were bad, and I was too aware of it,”…

T HE MAN STOOD in the shadow of the trees facing the small tan house. He was tall and had the close-cropped military haircut of the Marine he’d been until deserting his post a few weeks earlier. A black mask covered his face, he wore a one-piece camouflage suit, and carried a .300-caliber blackout rifle and a .22-caliber handgun. The surrounding Blue Ridge Mountains of Hardy, Virginia, flower with dogwoods in the spring; in the summer, the hills bloom so lushly they look covered in neon velvet. It was Nov.…

Apple is currently busy preparing for the Vision Pro to go on sale on February 2. The company isn't going to rest much after that, it appears. We have already had rumors about a new M3 MacBook Air and a new iPad Pro, and it looks like we may get to see these two devices launch at the end of March. In his latest Power On newsletter, Mark Gurman revealed that we may be headed for another March Apple Event. Apple has apparently already started producing the M3 MacBook Air and the new redesigned iPad Pro, with OLED screens…

An autonomous spacecraft has just arrived at NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio, where it will begin its final testing phase. The spacecraft is a reusable space plane designed by Sierra Space, and it is currently known as the Dream Chaser.Dream Chaser is just one of several commercial cargo resupply spacecrafts that NASA will work with to keep the International Space Station stocked. The spacecraft is designed to launch off of a rocket, but will land on aircraft runways, and it looks very…

As the year winds down and Hollywood’s focus shifts to the triumphs and defeats of the awards circuit, the most surprising upset of the season has instead taken place at the box office.This past weekend, Hayao Miyazaki’s probably-final-but-we-never-really-know-do-we film The Boy and the Heron flew away with the No 1 spot, besting the IP vehicles Trolls Band Together and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes as both slowed in their fourth week of release. However the latest marvel from Studio Ghibli may have…

At Apple’s WWDC23, I think I saw the future. Yeah, I’m pretty sure I saw the future – or at least Apple’s vision of the future of computing. On Tuesday morning, I got to try the Apple Vision Pro, the new $3,499 mixed-reality headset that was announced this week and ships next year.  I’m here to tell you the details of my experience, but the overall impression I have is that the Vision Pro is the most impressive first-gen product I’ve seen from Apple–more impressive than the 1998 iMac, or the 2007 iPhone. And I’m…

When Oumuamua travelled through our Solar System back in 2017, people around the world paid attention. It was the first Interstellar Object (ISO) astronomers had ever identified.Then in August 2019, Comet 2I Borisov travelled through our Solar System, becoming the second ISO to cruise through for a visit. Together, the visiting ISOs generated a wave of inquiry and speculation.There's bound to be more ISOs than just those two, and a new study says our Solar System has probably captured some of these interstellar visitors,…