The world around us was built to cater to gas-powered cars. Tank trucks carrying thousands of gallons of fuel are a near-ubiquitous presence on the highway. Auto repair shops are stocked with drain pans and wrenches for oil changes. Gas prices are a central focus in politics. Even pedestrians... Read more

In 2009, the computer worm Stuxnet crippled hundreds of centrifuges inside Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment plant by targeting the software running on the facility’s industrial computers, known as programmable logic controllers. The exploited PLCs were made by the automation giant Siemens and were all models from the company’s ubiquitous,... Read more

What if night and day were places to visit rather than times to pass? Imagine a world with locales that are always dark and others where the sun is always in the sky. Now go a step further and imagine there are places where it is the dead of... Read more

Gameplay improvements are key to driving blockchain game adoption in 2023, according to a report by the Blockchain Game Alliance. And a separate report from DappRadar found that companies in the sector raised $7.6 billion in 2022. The Blockchain Game Alliance (BGA) 2022 Member Survey and Report has found... Read more

Enlarge / Stewart Coonrod holds up an official 2023 Chuck E. Cheese floppy disk in a TikTok video. It contains dance moves for in-store animatronics. On Sunday, a Chuck E. Cheese employee named Stewart Coonrod posted a TikTok video that documents the process of installing a new song-and-dance show... Read more

Netflix’s The Pale Blue Eye is a rollercoaster of a murder mystery, not least because it involves American poet Edgar Allan Poe. Christian Bale stars as ex-detective Augustus Landor, who’s enlisted by West Point Military Academy in 1830 to investigate a gruesome murder. Who does he meet there but... Read more

The United States Federal Aviation Administration today halted flights taking off across the country beginning early this morning and continuing until 9 am ET. The pause—the first of its kind in the US since the September 11, 2001 attacks—delayed thousands of flights and created a cascade of further delays... Read more

Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. After years of frenzy and soaring valuations, U.S. venture capital investment levels and returns came crashing down in 2022 as the world economy faltered. The official year-end report by Pitchbook and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) showed... Read more

Microsoft Microsoft is adding a new low-end subscription tier to its Microsoft 365 service designed to cater to existing OneDrive subscribers and people who want more features for their Outlook inboxes but don’t need the full desktop versions of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint. The Verge reports that Microsoft 365... Read more

Finished with 1899? Bamboozled by Netflix’s decision to cancel the show? Now is as good a time as any to try Dark. for my money, it’s the best show on Netflix. From the creators of 1899, Dark is a mind-bending show that deftly combines internal family drama with time travel,... Read more