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May 13, 2021

How Roblox Became a $45 Billion Public Videogame Company | WSJ

Posted by in category: futurism

Rather than relying on Hollywood-like budgets to produce games, videogame company Roblox outsources the development to its mostly young players. WSJ meets a gamer making money from his creations and helping the publicly traded company attract new players. Photo: Roblox.

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May 13, 2021

China’s Yutu 2 rover about to ‘wake up’ on the far side of the moon

Posted by in category: space

China’s plucky Yutu 2 rover is about to wake up and continue to explore the far side of the moon as the nation works to land a rover on Mars this May.

The rover, which launched with the Chang’e 4 mission, landed on the far side of the moon in January 2019 and recently completed its 29th lunar day of activities, the China Lunar Exploration Project (CLEP) said on April 23.

May 13, 2021

Japanese billionaire, Russian actress to fly to ISS

Posted by in category: space travel

WASHINGTON — A Japanese billionaire best known for buying a SpaceX Starship flight around the moon will go to space first on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station, two months after a Russian actress and director visit the station.

Space tourism company Space Adventures and the Russian space agency Roscosmos announced May 13 that Yusaku Maezawa will fly to the ISS on the Soyuz MS-20 mission launching Dec. 8 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. He will be accompanied by a production assistant, Yozo Hirano, on the 12-day flight, commanded by Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin.

“We are excited for Maezawa-san, and we are honored to have enabled this opportunity for him to fly to space,” Eric Anderson, chairman and chief executive of Space Adventures, said in the statement.

May 13, 2021

Man Who Is Paralyzed Communicates By Imagining Handwriting

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, neuroscience

By decoding the brain signals involved in handwriting, researchers have allowed a man who is paralyzed to transform his thoughts into words on a computer screen.

May 13, 2021

A security researcher found Wi-Fi vulnerabilities that have existed since the beginning

Posted by in categories: internet, security

They’ve been dubbed “FragAttacks”.


The researcher, Mathy Vanhoef, calls the collection of vulnerabilities “FragAttacks,” with the name being a mashup of “fragmentation” and “aggregation.” He also says the vulnerabilities could be exploited by hackers, allowing them to intercept sensitive data, or show users fake websites, even if they’re using Wi-Fi networks secured with WPA2 or even WPA3. They could also theoretically exploit other devices on your home network.

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May 13, 2021

Something’s Up In Switzerland: Explaining The B Meson News From The Large Hadron Collider

Posted by in categories: particle physics, quantum physics

Particle physics is a field of extremes. Scales always have 10really big number associated. Some results from the Large Hadron Collider Beauty (LHCb) experiment have recently been reported that are statistically significant, and they may have profound implications for the Standard Model, but it might also just be a numbers anomaly, and we won’t get to find out for a while. Let’s dive into the basics of quantum particles, in case your elementary school education is a little rusty.

May 13, 2021

Hear the Eerie Sounds of Interstellar Space Captured by NASA’s Voyager

Posted by in categories: particle physics, space

In the sparse collection of atoms that fills interstellar space, Voyager 1 has measured a long-lasting series of waves where it previously only detected sporadic bursts.

Until recently, every spacecraft in history had made all of its measurements inside our heliosphere, the magnetic bubble inflated by our Sun. But on August 25, 2012, NASA ’s Voyager 1 changed that. As it crossed the heliosphere’s boundary, it became the first human-made object to enter – and measure – interstellar space. Now eight years into its interstellar journey, a close listen of Voyager 1’s data is yielding new insights into what that frontier is like.

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May 13, 2021

Blood Moon Eclipse 2021: Exactly When, Where And How You Can See Next Week’s ‘Super Flower Blood Moon’ Total Lunar Eclipse

Posted by in category: space

Your complete guide to seeing the ‘supermoon’ turn red during North America’s total lunar eclipse on May 26, 2021.

May 13, 2021

Super blood moon: How to watch the total lunar eclipse this month

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Super flower blood moon. Blood flower supermoon. Call it what whatever you like. It’s going to be beautiful.

May 13, 2021

Israel’s military says air and ground forces are attacking Gaza – updates

Posted by in category: military

We are pausing this live coverage for a while, but will bring you any key developments and breaking news when it happens.