Aaron Leong
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One of the "Big Five" general contracting and engineering firms in Japan has revived one of the most audacious energy ideas ever sketched: wrapping the Moon’s equator in a giant belt of solar panels and beaming the power back to Earth via...
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Samsung could be bestowing the upcoming Galaxy Z Flip 8 with a nearly crease-free inner display via a redesigned hinge, plus a slightly slimmer body. Will those be enough to sway the tide?
Samsung’s clamshell-style foldables have...
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South of Austin, a startup and a fleet of AI-powered robots are reviving one of the oldest building traditions by transforming raw earth into modern, affordable housing amidst a worsening building and labor crisis. Think terraforming and...
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New analysis has turned NASA’s TESS mission from a targeted planet spotter into a broad census machine, with AI uncovering undiscovered worlds hiding in plain sight within the mission's data. For one, fresh tools like RAVEN have validated...
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Toto, the Japanese company best known for its heated bidet toilets, is suddenly looking less like a bathroom brand and more like an unlikely beneficiary of the global RAM shortage. In a year when memory has become scarce, expensive, and generally annoying to anyone trying to buy a computer...
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Porsche just revived one of motorsport’s most recognizable paint schemes, sending its factory 963s to Laguna Seca in the rainbow Apple Computer livery that first appeared more than four decades ago.
Remember this little puppy?
The...
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A revised asteroid calculation may have opened a new expressway to Mars and back; experts believe that we could shrink a round trip to the Red Planet from 14-20 months to more than half of that. The idea comes from a paper published in...
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The Supreme Court spent Monday wrestling with a question that sits at the fault line between mod-con and constitutional privacy: when police obtain location data to hunt for suspects, can that data include every person near a crime scene?...
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Astronomers may have finally put a number on one of our galaxy’s slipperiest questions: where the Milky Way’s physical boundary really ends. New analysis suggests the active star-forming disk stops around 35,000 to 40,000 light-years from...
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Google’s next Pixel chipset appears to be a familiar Tensor story: generational improvements that could leave some fans underwhelmed. How so? The latest leaks suggest that the Pixel 11’s Tensor G6 could, on one hand, finally incorporate...
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Denuvo’s grip on PC game protection appears to have collapsed in public view, with multiple reports now saying every single-player, non-VR title it previously guarded can be cracked or bypassed. Driving this breakthrough are...
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NASA has tested a lithium-fed thruster that could become a workhorse for future Mars missions, and the key milestone is not just that it fired, but that it did so at power levels no previous electric thruster test in the United States ever...
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has released a report revealing that Americans lost more than $2.1 billion to social media scams last year, a record high not just in numbers, but in the sophistication of online criminals. In stark...
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Samsung is preparing to enter the wearable ambient AI race against the likes of Meta and Ray-Ban with its upcoming Galaxy Glasses. Leaked renders this week reveal a sleek, lightweight device that looks remarkably like Google's demo Android...
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Night skies in May are set to host a pretty rare trifecta as a blue moon sequence pairs with a peak meteor shower. Even though the "blue moon" term often refers to the second full moon in a single calendar month, this month’s event follows...
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Noctua has released to the public a growing library of 3D CAD models for many of its legendary cooling products. What this means is that case modders, engineers, and industrial designers can use the files to visually help ensure that the...
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In its home market, effective immediately, Anker has phased out its popular Soundcore sub-brand in favor of a unified moniker: Anker Audio-Visual. Even as many have become accustomed to Soundcore products, the company says that this consolidation aims to bring more clarity to a product...
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A global citizen science project is inviting you to scour through the Euclid space telescope's massive DR1 (Data Release 1) mission. The aim is to uncover possibly thousands of strong gravitational lenses that could aid in our...
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted Amazon’s eero and Leo router families "Conditional Approval," exempting them from a sweeping national ban on foreign-made networking equipment. This determination by the U.S. government allows Amazon to continue selling and importing its...
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NASA's little busy-bee, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), just delivered another treasure giving scientists an unprecedented infrared look at the interior of the Tc 1 planetary nebula, located some 10,000 light-years away where...
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DJI has lowered the barrier to entry for aerial cinematography with the launch of its new Lito lineup. Led by the flagship Lito X1 and the more accessible Lito 1, the duo focuses on extreme portability and simplified flight controls...
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The latest commission from Gunther Werks, dubbed "Project Endgame," represents the company's (and solo client's) ultimate vision of the OG air-cooled Porsche 993. Indeed, though the 993 generation is often celebrated as the pinnacle of...
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