Boom Year for Desert Blooms
Carpets of wildflowers burst from arid, ochre-colored land in Western Australia following winter rains.
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Terraform provider for Google Cloud 8.0 now generally available
The Terraform provider for Google Cloud 8.0 builds on expanded infrastructure discovery workflows, modernizes provider defaults, removes support for retired Google Cloud services, and improves consistency...
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Where can Australians buy R18+ PC games without a credit card? Pretty much everywhere but Steam
Valve has dropped the ball on implementing reasonable age verification measures, so it's time to look further afield.
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First Diagnostic X-Rays in Space Mark New Era for Astronaut Health
A team of researchers acquired the first diagnostic X-ray images during a commercial spaceflight, demonstrating that X-ray medicine can be performed in space.
Read moreAdvertising Is Content: An Absurd Ikea Mod For Skyrim
A theme going on many years here at Techdirt has been the idea that separating content and advertising, as was the traditional model, makes far less...
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Ship 41 rolls to Pad 2 carrying two flown tiles from Ship 40
SpaceX rolled Ship 41 to the launch site for stacking with Booster 21, and the… The post Ship 41 rolls to Pad 2 carrying two flown...
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Why Raindrops Make for Pretty Good Antennae
A good rule of thumb is that everything that can interact with electromagnetic (EM) radiation is an antenna, which includes our mostly-salty-water-containing bodies and also raindrops...
Read moreOpen-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Driver Sees Patches For HDMI Deep Color Support
The Nouveau Linux kernel graphics driver for open-source NVIDIA driver support has new patches posted for enabling HDMI Deep Color support...
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Curiosity Blog, Sols 5010-5015: Checking out the Bands
Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, APXS Strategic Planner and Payload Uplink/Downlink Lead, University New Brunswick, NB, Canada Earth planning date: Friday, Sept. 11, 2026 This week we had two...
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OpenAI wants to consult elite mathematicians about how to not fumble again
After turning a string of spectacular mathematical results into a reputational crisis, OpenAI is consulting human mathematicians to help it figure out a less disastrous path...
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Soulart Station – A markerless full-body motion tracker for VR and VTubers (Crowdfunding)
South Korean startup Soulart has launched the Soulart Station, a markerless full-body motion tracker for VR, VTubing, and motion capture. The device uses a Time-of-Flight (ToF)...
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