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CNETThere is still a "huge gap" for advertising to fill as consumer continue to move to connected TV, according to Steve Louden, chief financial officer of streaming TV maker Roku, during a press conference Thursday."In Q2, there was a significant slowdown in TV advertising spend due to the macro-economic environment," Roku announced in prepared remarks in its quarterly shareholder letter. Louden was speaking following a disappointing Q2 earnings report by the company, in which Roku missed revenue estimates for the…

CNETThere is still a "huge gap" for advertising to fill as consumer continue to move to connected TV, according to Steve Louden, chief financial officer of streaming TV maker Roku, during a press conference Thursday."In Q2, there was a significant slowdown in TV advertising spend due to the macro-economic environment," Roku announced in prepared remarks in its quarterly shareholder letter. Louden was speaking following a disappointing Q2 earnings report by the company, in which Roku missed revenue estimates for the…

Schoolbooks typically present explorers as intrepid individuals who, at the behest of colonizing leaders, sail wooden ships to new lands, ride on horseback across uncharted mountains or slash their way through the jungle. But today most explorers who are making fundamental discoveries are scientists. And whether the frontiers are minuscule, like the human genome, or massive, like our deepest oceans, we still have much left to learn about planet Earth. The quests that modern scientists pursue rival anything in a history…

A team of physicists has used a pair of vibrating rods to measure the gravitational constant to incredibly fine precision.While the new technique has relatively high uncertainty, they hope that future improvements will provide a new pathway to nailing down this elusive constant.  The gravitational constant, denoted as G, is the fundamental building block of our understanding of gravity. Isaac Newton first introduced the constant into his equations when he developed his universal theory of gravitation over 300 years…

Concerned that efforts to staunch the flow of excess greenhouse gases bleeding into our atmosphere won't be enough to save us from a worsening crisis, MIT engineers have returned to a decades old vision to help ease the effects of climate change.  To buy time for weaning ourselves off our fossil fuel addiction, we could simply raise a parasol made of high-tech bubbles over the planet to create a bit of shade.First proposed in the late 1980s, the suggestion of using a vast space-umbrella to block a tiny proportion of…

Ten years after it discovered the Higgs boson, the Large Hadron Collider is about to start smashing protons together at unprecedented energy levels in its quest to reveal more secrets about how the universe works.  The world's largest and most powerful particle collider started back up in April after a three-year break for upgrades in preparation for its third run. From Tuesday it will run around the clock for nearly four years at a record energy of 13.6 trillion electronvolts, the European Organisation for Nuclear…

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured these clouds just after sunset on March 19, 2021, the 3,063rd Martian day, or sol, of the rover’s mission. The image is made up of 21 individual images stitched together and color-corrected so that the scene appears as it would to the human eye. The clouds are drifting over “Mont Mercou,” a cliff face that Curiosity studied. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSSFind Clouds on Mars to Help NASA ScientistsBy spotting clouds in data collected by <span class="glossaryLink"…

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers detail fundamental cryptography flaws in MEGA's end-to-end encryption scheme that could let the cloud storage service decipher stored files — Fundamental flaws uncovered in Mega's encryption scheme show service can read your data. — In the decade since larger … Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers detail fundamental cryptography flaws in MEGA's end-to-end encryption scheme that could let the cloud storage service decipher stored…

New results from the Baksan Experiment on Sterile Transitions (BEST) experiment confirm anomaly suggesting new physics possibility.Sterile neutrino, physics fundamentals among interpretations of anomalous results.New scientific results confirm an anomaly seen in previous experiments, which may point to an as-yet-unconfirmed new elementary particle, the sterile neutrino, or indicate the need for a new interpretation of an aspect of standard model physics, such as the neutrino cross section, first measured 60 years ago. Los…

Incarcerated workers in the U.S. generate billions of dollars worth of goods and services while toiling under unjust conditions, according to a new report from the University of Chicago Law School’s Global Human Rights Clinic and the American Civil Liberties Union. Credit: Shutterstock.com Incarcerated workers generate billions of dollars worth of goods and services annually but are paid pennies per hour without proper…