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Mysterious Inca city on Mars attacked by 'black spiders' - what did satellite images really show?

Arachnophobes can rest easy - new ESA satellite images showing clusters of black spiders on Mars actually reveal a seasonal phenomenon familiar to the planet. Dark funnel-shaped formations were spotted in the city of Inca (southern polar region of Ma...

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Herculaneum scrolls revealed where Plato was buried - they were read by a "bionic eye"

Three years ago, a research group from the University of Pisa decided to decode the Herculaneum scrolls using a new technology known as the "bionic eye." The scrolls were discovered in the 18th century, and many scholars tried to reconstruct them. Ho...

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Expirenza's app for café and restaurant lovers has gotten Eateries, Treats and information on over 1,700 establishments

Co-founder of monobank Oleg Gorokhovsky shared the start of testing the updated Expirenza 2.0 reviews application. This is a mobile solution for those who love to visit cafes, bars, and restaurants. It is noted that the application currently features...

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Isabela Merced played both parts of The Last of Us all weekend to check in on casting for the HBO series

Mercedes plays Dina in the second season of "The Last of Us" - a new love interest for Ellie. In an interview with Flaunt (via Games Radar), the actress said that she was a "big fan" of the first season of the post-apocalyptic series and really wante...

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Apple has released OpenELM, a family of open source artificial intelligence models designed to run on devices

Apple is set to join the company of developers of artificial intelligence models with its own OpenELM family. This is a lineup of Large Language Models (LLM) with open source code that can run entirely on a single device rather than connecting to clo...

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Taiwanese at TSMC and Slovenians at EKWB bullying workers in the US: racism, overtime and underpayment

It appears that Asian and Eastern European companies opening plants in the US bring their own "manufacturing culture" with them. According to reports, American workers at TSMC and the PC manufacturer EKWB from Slovenia face racism, rudeness, overtime...

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Not a competitor to Apple and Intel: Qualcomm cheats on Snapdragon X chip tests - insiders say manufacturers didn't achieve claimed results

Qualcomm is accused of presenting misleading test results for new processors for Windows laptops Snapdragon X Elite and Plus. These chips are positioned as the first potentially competitive Windows on Arm processors compared to Apple, Intel, and AMD ...

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Apple's chief marketing officer who promoted the Vision Pro headset is resigning

Frank Casanova worked in various positions at Apple for 36 years - most recently as the director of marketing, responsible, among other things, for the launch of the Vision Pro headset. As reported by Bloomberg, Dan Riccio, who led the development of...

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Qulcomm unveiled the Snapdragon X Plus, a processor supposedly more powerful than the Apple M3

Qulcomm has presented the Snapdragon X Plus processor for Windows laptops, based on the same Oryon architecture as the Snapdragon X Elite. The company claims that it is capable of outperforming Apple's M3 chip and consumes less energy. Later, the Sna...

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Google has changed its mind - cookies in Chrome browser won't be disabled until at least 2025

Google has postponed its plan to gradually phase out third-party cookies for all Chrome users. A few months ago, the search giant planned to stop using third-party cookies by mid-2024. But now Google has postponed this step until at least 2025. Alpha...

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Tesla profits fall 55% in first months of 2024 - Musk says 'hybrids are to blame'

Reduced pricing strategy and several "unpredictable issues" have decreased Tesla's profit - in the first quarter, the company earned $1.13 billion (55% less than last year). The company's total revenue also showed a decrease of 9% - to $21.3 billion....

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Apple has halved its Vision Pro shipment plan (to 400-450 units in 2024) - Ming-Chi Kuo

Apple has reduced its expectations for the supply of the Vision Pro mixed reality headset. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says that now Apple plans to ship between 400,000 and 450,000 units of Vision Pro this year, which is less than the initial market plan of...

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Unreal Engine 5.4 is out - ray tracing on Linux, better TSR scaling and better performance

The game engine Unreal Engine 5.4, announced a month ago, is now available to all game developers. One of the most important updates in the list is the improvement of TSR (Temporal Super Resolution) - an alternative to NVIDIA DLSS, AMD FSR, and Intel...

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Japan has launched a vending machine with Intel processors instead of toys - a working Core i7-8700 will cost $3.25 (but there's a nuance)

Similar vending machines usually sell small toys, but this one is loaded with Intel processors from previous generations. Japanese YouTuber Savara-San acquired an Intel Core i7-8700 processor after giving the vending machine 500 yen (about $3.25) and...

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Production has started on the €1200 RCYL eco-friendly bike made... out of plastic

The prototype of the igus:bike appeared in 2022. Now the bike with a new name RCYL is being launched into production. The bike is made of recycled plastic, however, it is obvious that it is subject to similar recycling after the end of its service li...

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