Water Resistance Tester, available on the Google Play store and spotted by Android Police, falls firmly into the category of “neat stuff we didn’t know you could do with an app.” It tests the integrity of your Android phone’s IP67/IP68 rating by accessing the device’s barometer. Just download the free app, follow the prompts to press down firmly on the …
Roblox, explained, Jay Peters
Roblox is one of the biggest apps in the world, and you’ve probably been hearing its name: the company recently went public, and its stock price climbed so high it was temporarily worth more than gaming giants EA and Take-Two combined. Roblox has come up as a contentious topic in the Epic Games v. Apple trial as well. But it’s …
Melinda French Gates will leave foundation if she and Bill Gates can’t ‘work constructively’, Ian Carlos Campbell
Melinda French Gates and Bill Gates recently announced their divorce plans but largely left the question of how the co-chairs would continue to work together at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation unanswered. Now, a new statement from the foundation has offered some clarity: they might not (via The New York Times). The foundation says Melinda French Gates will resign …
Melinda French Gates will leave foundation if she and Bill Gates can’t ‘work constructively’, Ian Carlos Campbell
Melinda French Gates and Bill Gates recently announced their divorce plans but largely left the question of how the co-chairs would continue to work together at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation unanswered. Now, a new statement from the foundation has offered some clarity: they might not (via The New York Times). The foundation says Melinda French Gates will resign …
Virgin Orbit gearing up for autumn launch and a busy 2022, ,
Virgin Orbit is gearing up for a third launch this year — and an even busier 2022. The company aced its second spaceflight in less than six months last Wednesday (June 30), lofting seven small satellites to orbit on a mission named “Tubular Bells: Part 1,” after the first track on the first album ever released by Virgin Group founder …
Verizon has its own version of spatial audio and it’s already pushing it on phones, Chris Welch
You know spatial audio is having quite a moment when wireless carriers decide to create their own implementations of it. Verizon has announced a new sound feature it’s calling “Verizon Adaptive Sound,” and the company claims it “produces a brilliant spatial surround experience regardless of what headphone, soundbar, or earbud brand you use or what application you’re watching or listening …
China picks up the launch pace with three space missions in four days, ,
China appears to be returning to its pre-pandemic pace of launching back-to-back space missions. Various Chinese sources indicate the country finished three successful orbital launches in four days, with the latest of the group launching from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China on Tuesday (July 6). China generally keeps a tight rein on space launch publicity, releasing news …
Methane in plume of Saturn’s moon Enceladus could be sign of alien life, study suggests, ,
The methane wafting from Enceladus may be a sign that life teems in the Saturn moon’s subsurface sea, a new study reports. In 2005, NASA’s Cassini Saturn orbiter discovered geysers blasting particles of water ice into space from “tiger stripe” fractures near Enceladus’ south pole. That material, which forms a plume that feeds Saturn’s E ring (the planet’s second-outermost ring), …
Donald Trump files sweeping, nonsensical lawsuits against Facebook, Twitter, and Google, Adi Robertson
Former President Donald Trump has filed proposed class action lawsuits against Facebook, Twitter, and Google subsidiary YouTube as well as CEOs Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and Sundar Pichai. The lawsuits come six months after Trump was permanently or temporarily suspended from all three platforms. Trump announced the lawsuits at a press conference today, following an early report by Axios. He …
Marvin the Martian attacks a Mars rover in HBO Max’s ‘Looney Tunes Cartoons’ Season 2: Exclusive clip, ,
NASA’s intrepid Perseverance rover on Mars has been capturing the imaginations of space lovers around the globe with its striking panoramic images recorded from the Red Planet’s surface since it first touched down this past February. With its captivating mission still unfolding, Warner Bros. Animation and HBO Max are tapping into the interplanetary adventure for its new season of “Looney …