If your heart’s beating faster, the new Apple Watch Series 4 will be able to tell. The latest Apple Watch packs several new features, with the most obvious change on its surface: a redesigned face to put much more screen on your wrist. It’s about time. The tech giant on Wednesday unveiled its new Apple Watch Series […]
Smart smartwatch deals for Mother’s Day: Discounts on Apple Watch, Fitbit and more
Tick tock, time is running out on your chance to line up a Mother’s Day gift. If you plan to skip the flowers this year and go the tech route, splurging on the latest Apple Watch for dear ol’ mom won’t set you back as much as you might think. Apple Watch Series 4 […]
NASA wants you to build your own Mars rover
It’s just not practical for a private citizen to own an actual car-sized NASA Mars rover, as cool as that would be. But with an assist from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, you can build a mini version to explore your own backyard. The JPL Open Source Rover Project tells you everything you need to know […]
The eye-tracking HTC Vive Pro Eye is a sign of VR to come
I knew the Vive headset I was wearing was too tight. This was the HTC Vive Pro Eye, a new model introduced at CES this month in Las Vegas, that adds full-on eye-tracking. It’s otherwise very similar to the existing high-end Vive Pro headset that HTC introduced in 2018. I’ve gone through enough eye-tracking setups to […]
Meteorite used as doorstop for decades worth $100,000
From doorstop to showstopper. This is the rags-to-riches story of a rock from outer space. A Grand Rapids, Michigan, man, who wishes to remain anonymous, bought a farm near Edmore, Michigan, in 1988. It came with a weird rock that was used to prop open the door of a shed. The former owner told […]
Mysterious Planet Nine hiding beyond Neptune might not be a planet at all
Out past Neptune, something weird is happening to the orbits of a bunch of space rocks circling the sun. Something, scientists believed, that could only be described by the presence of a giant planet — the so-called Planet Nine. It’s baffled astronomers for years, and now there’s yet another another candidate for the cosmic wobbliness […]
Scientists discover new fish species in ocean’s terrifying depths
If you dive 7,500 metres below the ocean’s surface, chances are you’re going to see some pretty gnarly wildlife. Especially in one of the world’s deepest ocean trenches. A team of 40 scientists from 17 countries has journeyed 7.5 kilometres (4.6 miles) below the surface of the water in the Atacama Trench in the Pacific […]
Scientists grow human eye parts to determine how we see in color
Eye can barely believe it, but it’s true. Researchers at John Hopkins University in Maryland created eyeball parts from stem cells in the hopes of better understanding the how and why we developed ‘trichromatic vision’ — the ability to see in red, blue and green. The study was published in Science on Oct. 12. Organoids are […]
Wear OS: What’s new and what’s coming soon
At this year’s Google I/O, Google’s smartwatches aren’t invisible like Daydream VR, but they’re definitely laying low. One domed demo space has a number of Wear OS watches running the latest software feature, Tiles, which I had a chance to finally use. But that’s not what things were like last year. A year ago, […]
NASA New Horizons zooms toward Ultima Thule as historic flyby nears
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is set to explore more distant worlds than ever before when it flies past 2014 MU69 in the early hours of New Year’s Day. The craft has gradually made its approach over the last two weeks as NASA scientists performed a series of checks and trajectory corrections to ensure New Horizons […]