Henrietta Lacks Family Reaches Settlement With Biotech Company Over Her ‘Immortal’ Cells
The family of Henrietta Lacks—whose cancer cells have played a vital role in modern medicine for decades—has reached a legal…
August 2023
Lenovo Is Working on Its Own Steam Deck Competitor
The high-powered handheld gaming market keeps on growing, and now Lenovo is reportedly getting in on the mix. The company…
Arrow’s Stephen Amell Speaks Out Against Actors’ Strike, But Later Clarifies
We’re sorry to say it but the Green Arrow might be a bit of an A-Hole. Speaking at GalaxyCon in…
The Euclid Telescope’s First Images Have Arrived and They’re Stunning
The European Space Agency’s Euclid mission took over 11 years to get off the ground (and Earth), but now the…
So, What’s Going On With Leprosy in Florida?
Doctors in Florida are sounding caution about one of the world’s oldest known ailments, leprosy. In a recent report, they…
Add These New Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books to Your August Reading List
For whatever quirky reason, August 2023 is particularly robust on two fronts: short-story collections, and retellings that shed new light…
NASA Detects ‘Heartbeat’ Message From Voyager 2 After Inadvertently Losing Contact
NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft, currently 12.4 billion miles (19.9 billion kilometers) from Earth, has phoned home, essentially telling mission controllers…
Firefox fixes a flurry of flaws in the first of two releases this month
No zero-days, but some interesting patches with their very own "teachable moments".
Apple Users Open to Remote Control via Tricky macOS Malware
The Hidden Virtual Network Computing (hVNC) malware infests Macs and silently executes complete takeovers, with no user permission needed. It…
Threat Actors Exploiting Ivanti EPMM Vulnerabilities
SUMMARY The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Norwegian National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-NO) are releasing this joint…