Frank Landymore

Last month, astronauts aboard China's Tiangong space station conducted a lengthy spacewalk to repair a solar array damaged by debris. Now, state media outlet Xinhua reports that those repairs were successful, as China undertakes crucial steps to protect its astronauts against an increasingly cluttered orbit. According to China Manned Space Agency (CMSA), the debris had […]

X, formerly Twitter, is launching a separate TV app to watch videos uploaded by users, in what is another step towards Elon Musk's vision of expanding the platform past its original text-based roots. An official release date hasn't been shared. But in an announcement made on Tuesday, CEO Linda Yaccarino — who, in a similar […]

Pyromaniacs rejoice! If you live in the US, you can now buy a stout little robodog mounted with a full-blown flamethrower — because what else are you going to do with those terrifyingly capable quadrupeds? The "Thermonator," as it's known, was first teased by its manufacturer Throwflame last summer. A new video shared by the […]

Cloudy Future Solar energy supplies over a quarter of California electricity, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association. That bright spot, though, comes with a strange but significant problem. On sunny days, there's so much solar energy being supplied that electricity prices can dip into the negative, The Washington Post reports — a preview of […]

When it came to finding shelter, our early ancestors simply had to make do. And in the deserts of Saudi Arabia, some of them apparently sought refuge from the oppressive heat by living in the underground remnants of volcanic activity. As detailed in a new study published in the journal PLOS One, archaeologists have discovered […]

As many CEOs gloat over the idea of replacing their human workers with AI, some of them are now starting to fear that they, too, may be on the chopping block. Per a new report from the IT consulting firm AND Digital which surveyed hundreds of business leaders in the US, the UK, and the […]

Ad to the Tally As any Windows 10 holdout can tell you, Microsoft really wants you to upgrade to Windows 11. Not only is it prematurely killing support for the older operating system by next year, it's been forcing all kinds of obnoxious prompts onto users to make the switch. But here's a good reason […]

Shut Up and Pay In an effort to ostensibly combat bot spam on X, formerly Twitter, Elon Musk has shared his next genius scheme to revitalize the platform: charging new users a fee to post on the website — or really, to do anything at all. The impending change, which has no official date of […]

Climate change is a disaster for the environment, but we shouldn't overlook how it could directly affect the human body, too. New research has shown that the number of deaths and disabilities caused by strokes linked with extreme temperatures has been growing since 1990. Last year, the researchers found, more than 500,000 stroke deaths were […]

Bright Future In a bid to quickly halt the foreboding march of global warming, scientists are exploring the use of aerosols, or tiny particles, in the atmosphere to dim the sunlight that's making our planet pretty toasty. It's an approach filled with uncertainty, but there may be a silver lining in using nature's greatest source […]