Microsoft just released the first public and stable beta for Windows 11, but not everyone will be able to install it. Even though Windows 11 appears to be more of a visual…
Month: July 2021
Prep in a dozen valuable CompTIA training areas with these $45 courses
TLDR: The All-Access CompTIA A+ & Network Certification Prep Bundle offers 12 courses and more than 160 hours of training to help land almost a dozen critical CompTIA certificates. Every industry requires…
How to get the most out of Python classes
There should only be one — and preferably only one — obvious way to do it”, says the Zen of Python. Yet there are areas where even seasoned programmers debate what the…
How gravitational forces stop Earth’s asymmetrical core from tipping us over
More than 5,000 kilometers beneath us, Earth’s solid metal inner core wasn’t discovered until 1936. Almost a century later, we’re still struggling to answer basic questions about when and how it first…
Founder of EV startup Nikola charged with misleading investors
A federal grand jury charged Trevor Milton, founder and former chairman of EV startup Nikola, with three counts of criminal fraud, Bloomberg reports. He’s accused of lying about “nearly all aspects of the…
Google’s ‘time crystals’ could be the greatest scientific achievement of our lifetimes
Eureka! A research team featuring dozens of scientists working in partnership with Google‘s quantum computing labs may have created the world’s first time crystal inside a quantum computer. This is the kind…
This new open-source firefighter safety project will save lives — and you can help
AI platform Prometeo, the team that won the 2019 Call for Code challenge, launched its open-source Pyrrha solution in partnership with IBM, Samsung, and The Linux Foundation. This is going to save…
EU slaps Amazon with record $887M fine over ad targeting practices
The EU has fined Amazon a record €746 million ($887m) for GDPR violations related to ad targetting. The decision stems from a 2018 complaint by French privacy rights group La Quadrature du Net,…
The age of the metaverse is upon us
The metaverse has become the hottest buzzword in tech. Silicon Valley big brains are suddenly obsessed with building virtual spaces spanning digital and physical domains. There’s Mark Zuckerberg, who plans to turn Facebook into…
Control the laws of magnetism with the Flux Original Scientific Toy, on sale for $47 off
TLDR: A two-century old law of magnetism makes the Flux Original Scientific Toy endlessly fascinating. Any number of silly knickknacks and tchotchkes line most people’s desks. While they’re fun momentary diversions or…