OnePlus continues its twice-yearly smartphone cycle with today’s arrival of the 8T. The latest device isn’t a huge upgrade over April’s OnePlus 8, but continues the company’s longstanding tradition of offering some of the most solid Android handsets at a reasonable price point. The cost has edged up a bit in recent years, but $ […]
“All that is left now is to offer a profound apology for disappointing you and, ultimately, for letting you down,” Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman wrote, closing out an open letter posted to Medium. “We cannot thank you enough for being there with us, and for us, every step of the way.” With that, the […]
Image: Maria Teneva Malware authors have managed to pass malicious apps through the Apple app notarization process for the second time this year and the second time in the past six weeks. App notarization is a recent security protection formally introduced by Apple earlier this year. It is a process that requires Mac app developers to […]
Courtesy of Xerox Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a contract to PARC, a unit of Xerox, to further develop the Ocean of Things project. Ocean of Things was outlined by DARPA in 2017 and the rough idea revolved around deploying small drifters in the Southern California Bight and Gulf of Mexico to […]
By Michael Le Page , Clare Wilson , Jessica Hamzelou , Adam Vaughan , Conrad Quilty-Harper and Layal Liverpool A member of the NHS Liverpool Blood and Transplant staff inside a pop up plasma donor centre in Liverpool, UKPeter Byrne/PA Wire/PA Images Latest coronavirus news as of 5 pm on 23 October Study finds convalescent […]
In September, a team of scientists reported finding phosphine in the upper atmosphere of Venus. Phosphine can be a biomarker and is here on Earth. But it’s also present on Jupiter, where it’s produced abiotically. The discovery led to conjecture about what kind of life might survive in Venus’ atmosphere, continually producing the easily-degraded phosphine. […]
We are sad to report that Emeritus Professor John Field FRS, OBE passed away on 21st October 2020. This was following a short, non-Covid related illness. John will be sadly missed by his family and numerous former students and group members, technical and administration staff as well as numerous members of the industrial and wider […]
Daylight saving time was first implemented during the first world war to take advantage of longer daylight hours and save energy. While this made a difference when we heavily relied on coal power, today the benefits are disputed. In fact, emerging research suggests that moving the clocks twice a year has negative impacts, particularly on […]
By Donna Lu Cats pass on parasites and bacteria that can cost bigAlamy Stock Photo Diseases transmitted by cats cost the Australian economy more than A$ 6 billion (£3.3 billion) annually through their impact on human health and livestock production. Sarah Legge at Australian National University in Canberra and her colleagues have analysed the economic […]
After a fairly relaxed summer, more and more places are bringing back tighter restrictions in response to rising COVID-19 cases, with some even returning to full or near-full lockdowns. We all know that social distancing makes sense: the fewer people we meet (and the further away from them we stay), the less likely we are […]