An artist’s illustration shows what asteroid 16 Psyche might look like. Maxar/ASU/P.Rubin/NASA/JPL-Caltech You may have heard of asteroid 16 Psyche thanks to an eye-popping monetary figure that’s been attached to it: $10,000 quadrillion. It’s a fantastical number based on the assumption that it’s made primarily of metal, a substance... Read more

June is Adopt-a-Cat Month, which coincides with “kitten season” and the unfortunate onslaught of kittens brought to shelters. Whether you’re planning on adding to your family or just want to spoil the felines already in your house, some of our favorite cat products are discounted. My two cats are... Read more

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Electronic Arts and its DICE studio revealed details of Battlefield 2042, a modern online multiplayer shooter game coming October 22 for the PC, PlayStation, and Xbox (both the newer and older consoles). The game will feature as many as... Read more

The Biden administration just did something many of its supporters would’ve thought unthinkable: It backed the Trump administration in a court case involving a rape allegation against Donald Trump. Even the four Justice Department lawyers who filed a brief defending Trump Monday night appear painfully aware they are doing... Read more

When you visit an HTTPS-protected website, your browser doesn’t exchange data with the webserver until it has ensured that the site’s digital certificate is valid. That prevents hackers with the ability to monitor or modify data passing between you and the site from obtaining authentication cookies or executing malicious... Read more

The sport utility vehicle is, basically, the standard of modern transportation. Ousting the sedan from so many families’ lives, the SUV used to lean a little more unto “utility,” but today, it does it all. These vehicles quickly worked their way into the fabric of daily life. That means... Read more

Thanks to NFTs, half of my friends now hate the other half. I know because they send me messages about each other. “Ugh, more crypto garbage,” reads one DM. “I guess we need to destroy the planet for some stupid GIF.” And then, from someone else: “I do feel,... Read more

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Postgres Professional, provider of a database based on a fork of the open source Postgres relational database, today updated its offering to add support for storage-level compression and 64-bit transaction identifiers, along with all the other capabilities made available... Read more

Hardcore History Hardcore History doesn’t operate like your usual podcast. Instead of regularly scheduled, 30-60 minute shows, host Dan Carlin drops a couple of 3-6 hour shows a year, doing so with almost no notice. That makes Tuesday a special day, as Carlin has released a new episode of... Read more

Today Amazon is turning on Sidewalk, a way to extend internet service between Amazon devices like Echo smart speakers and Ring cameras. Unless you opt out, your Amazon devices will automatically start participating in this connectivity bacchanal. Amazon has talked about Sidewalk for a while, so it’s no surprise... Read more