Technology

Observation of a large solar flare on September 10, 2017 in extreme ultraviolet (grayscale background, by the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory) and microwaves (red to blue indicate increasing frequencies, observed by the Owens Valley solar matrix expanded). The light orange curves are selected magnetic field lines from the corresponding theoretical …

Late last year, retro gaming company Analogue unveiled its latest passionate project: a tribute to Game Boy with modern technology. Called Pocket, the handheld device will open for pre-order in early August of next month, with a delivery date scheduled for May 2021. For those unfamiliar, the Pocket is the …

Facial masks are one of the best defenses against the spread of COVID-19, but their increasing adoption is having a second unwanted effect: breaking facial recognition algorithms. Wearing facial masks that adequately cover the mouth and nose causes the error rate of some of the most widely used facial recognition …

Pfizer and BioNTech are beginning a large study of a candidate vaccine for Covid-19 with the goal of obtaining approvals, but it’s not the one for which results were released earlier this month. The companies have always said they planned to choose from four different candidates, all of whom use …

“This hearing is timely and important,” said Maurice Stucke, a former prosecutor with the Justice Department’s antitrust division who now teaches law at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. “It is carried out not in isolation, but amid increased scrutiny from the world’s dominant technology platforms.” Stucke believes the audience …