These Nerf Darts Can Fire Themselves
Even when you’re going into battle with garishly colored plastic blasters loaded with painless foam darts, the element of surprise…
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Dark Money Wins: Gigi Sohn Withdraws FCC Nomination
Gigi Sohn, Joe Biden’s pick to end a nearly two-year deadlock in the Federal Communications Commission, withdrew her nomination Tuesday.…
Star Wars’ Movie Future Keeps Taika Waititi, Drops Kevin Feige and Patty Jenkins
Things are quickly shifting over at Lucasfilm with the Star Wars feature slate. Variety reports that Patty Jenkins and Kevin…
15-Year-Old NASA Probe Back in Action After Systems Reset
Most computer glitches can be resolved with a simple question, “Have you tried turning it off and on again?” It…
Hiatus Campaign Infects DrayTek Gear for Cyber Espionage, Proxy Control
Two novel malware binaries, including “HiatusRAT,” offer unique capabilities that point to the need for better security for companies’ router…
Chuck E. Cheese Still Uses Floppy Disks to Control Its Nightmare Machines
Two of the greatest memories of our childhoods—an adolescent casino and an antiquated data storage format—are still colliding to this…
Acer Confirms Data Offered Up for Sale Was Stolen
An Acer statement confirms that a document server for repair techs was compromised, but says customer data doesn’t appear to…
New Dark Matter Theory Says a ‘Dark Big Bang’ Created the Hidden Universe
When we think of the Big Bang, we think loud, hot, and bright. But was it followed by a colder,…
Fly Into Some Desperate Glory, Fantasy Author Emily Tesh’s Sci-Fi Debut
Emily Tesh’s Some Desperate Glory takes the time-honored tradition of space rebels and turns teenage horribleness on its head. In…
7 Space Concepts That Were Too Wild for NASA
It boggles the mind to think of all the wondrous things that NASA has achieved since its inception in 1958,…