The agency in charge of Los Angeles’ subways announced at a press conference today that it is working with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to install body scanners in the city’s metro system. The plan to scan the bodies of passengers for “concealed threats” is said to be the first of its kind in the…
Following a rumor last month that Verizon could partner with Apple or Google for TV tie-ins on its rollout of 5G wireless internet, the company announced it has deals with both. The 5G Residential Broadband service it will offer in Houston, Los Angel…
Intel’s new processor generation can’t come soon enough. Just when you thought the computing world was more or less over the Meltdown and Spectre scare, a new relative pops up. The name this time is less frightening but more ominous: Foreshadow. It’s related to Meltdown in that it exploits speculative execution to illegally read data stored in memory. The difference, … Continue reading
Huckabee Sanders said she “can’t guarantee” that Trump had never used a racist epithet.
Imagine a future where the United States is experiencing multiple Katrina or Sandy-like storms at the same time—all while wildfires rage in the West. Right now, the Department of Defense is in no way ready to handle that, said Francesco Femia, the co-founder of the Center for Climate and Security, a nonpartisan think…
Despite the fanciness and versatility of smartwatches, fitness trackers still outnumber and outsell them for various reasons. Those include price, function, and battery life. The two different but related worlds, however, are close to colliding, especially with the likes of Fitbit having a foot down in both worlds. While the Ionic and the Versa try to bridge the gap from … Continue reading
If she wins in November as expected, she’ll become one of America’s first Muslim congresswomen.
The sun is a crazy hot place. Just step outside in any of the summer months in Texas and you know this is true. The other day we talked a bit about the NASA Parker Solar Probe and how it would eventually become the fastest man-made object ever. At the time, I wondered how the probe could fly so close to the surface of the sun and not melt. It turns out NASA has an explanation for that.
The probe will travel through the corona of the sun where temperatures are greater than a million degrees Fahrenheit. The first reason it won’t simply melt is the probe’s fancy custom heat shield. In addition, the probe is designed to automatically face its heat shield in the proper direction, and it also packs a radiator-based cooling system. In addition, the low density of the plasma in the solar corona means a relatively small amount of heat will transfer to the probe.
The heat shield’s material is a carbon composite foam sandwiched between carbon plates. It is covered with white ceramic paint and can withstand temperatures up to 3,000º F. The video below shows just a tiny bit of how heat resistant the carbon composite material is, as its heated with a blowtorch to around 200º F. It would be interesting to see how well it works at full temperature.
Amazon is finally ready to show more of The Romanoffs than its all-star cast. The internet behemoth has posted a full-fledged teaser trailer for the Prime Video anthology series, and it’s evident that the show is equal parts serious and irreverent….
Budweiser has a new promotional smart beer cooler that feels an awful lot like rubbing salt in a wound: it only unlocks when the Cleveland Browns win a game. The company is providing these coolers — each a large fridge with a glass front showcasing shelves full of Bud Light — to the FirstEnergy stadium where the Browns play, as … Continue reading
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