The shell of a water/glycerol gas marble (bubble) remains liquid and spherical even after 101 days, and it reacts as a liquid film when punctured. These human-made bubbles could be used to create stable foams. A. Roux et al., 2022 Blowing soap bubbles never fails to delight one’s inner child, perhaps because they are intrinsically […]
Enlarge / The Fraggles are back, clap, clap. And they’re a blast to watch again, clap, clap. Jim Henson Company / Apple TV+ The video-streaming world has long suffered from content fragmentation, and modern-day Muppet access is no exception. If you want to revel in all things Jim Henson, you’ll need subscriptions to no less […]
Enlarge / Product photography of the Google Glass wearable. Project Iris won’t look like this; it is said to more closely resemble ski goggles than casual glasses. Google engineers are developing a new augmented reality (AR) headset, according to a report by The Verge citing two people familiar with the project. Google hopes to ship […]
Enlarge / The dome of the United States Capitol Building in Washington, DC. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 16-6 today to advance an antitrust bill that would prevent Big Tech firms from giving their own services preferential treatment. The bill attempts to limit the ability of dominant firms to “unfairly preference” their own products or […]
Enlarge / Cloned piglets that are engineered to be useful for organ transplants to humans. Last week, when we reported on the first pig-to-human heart transplant, we complained that the commercial company behind the operation wasn’t more forthcoming about the genetic engineering that converted the pig into a viable donor. We now know much more […]
Enlarge / Google Pay continues to circle the drain. Google is bringing on a new executive who it hopes will turn the beleaguered Google Pay division around. Bloomberg reports that Arnold Goldberg, PayPal’s chief product architect, will now run Google Pay after the former payments chief, Caesar Sengupta, left in April. Of the Google services that […]
Enlarge / GM’s Super Cruise system is tightly geofenced to divided-lane highways and only operates if the system can determine that the human in the driver’s seat is paying attention to the road ahead, ready to respond if there’s a problem. General Motors On Thursday, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety announced that it is […]
JUST HAPPENED! SpaceX To Launch Super Heavy Rocket To Orbit! 🔔 Subscribe – https://bit.ly/3myAZOn. Space travel is not an easy feat; it takes years of planning and a great deal of time to develop and fine-tune all the equipment needed for these explorations. SpaceX is relatively new to space exploration, but it moves and develops […]
Enlarge / President Joe Biden talks to reporters during a news conference in the East Room of the White House on January 19, 2022, in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President Joe Biden yesterday expressed support for breaking up the Build Back Better Act, saying that the parts intended to combat climate change appear to […]
Enlarge / A person takes a rapid COVID-19 test. Covid-19 Coverage View more stories Federal and state investigations into a large national chain of COVID-19 testing sites have turned up tests that were never labeled with patients’ names, tests piled into trash bags stored for long periods at room temperature, tests that were never processed, […]
