From ExtremeTech: The international medical community was aghast last year when a Chinese scientists announced the first ever genetically engineered babies. He Jiankui and his team used the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing tool to make two twin girls immune to HIV infection but did so without authorization...
From Tom's Hardware: In what seems to be an unprecedented move, even for Intel, Comet Lake might end up taking residence on not one, but two new sockets: Chip detective @momomo_us recently discovered a string in the latest version of CPU-Z that references the LGA1159 socket, which may complement the...
From TechCrunch: The holidays might be a time of slowed activity for most companies in the tech sector, but for SpaceX, it was a time to ramp production efforts on the latest Starship prototype – “Starship SN1” as it’s called, according to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. This flight design prototype of...
From PC Mag: WhatsApp confirmed it'll end support for older versions of iOS and Android early next year.
In a security bulletin, the messaging platform revealed it'll no longer support iOS 8 or earlier and Android 2.3.7 or earlier. iOS 8 debuted five years ago, and Gingerbread arrived in December...
From Tom's Hardware: According to one Redditor, whose post was subsequently deleted, the specifications for a Radeon RX 5600 XT were posted for a brief moment, revealing some possible details about AMD's unreleased graphics card.
The Radeon RX 5600 XT reportedly features 2,304 Stream Processors...
From CNET: Security camera startup Wyze has confirmed it suffered a data leak this month that may have left the personal information of millions of its customers exposed on the internet. No passwords or financial information were exposed, but email addresses, Wi-Fi network IDs and body metrics were...
One of my favorite stories when I went to Hawaii in September was my hike to Ka'ena Point, the westernmost tip of the island of Oahu. I did some research the night before and I was warned the 2.5 mile hike would be quite challenging and also bring lots of water. I was not sure whether I should believe these blogs or not, given a 2.5 mile hike is really nothing considering I am from Calgary where every hike is a mountain trail and we start at 3000...
I always find it crazy to think how fast Christmas and the winter break flies by. The build up to Christmas seems like a slow rumble, but once it is over, it finishes quickly. When I was still in grade school, we had at least a week off before Christmas as well as a week off after before returning in the new year. In high school, this was extended even further as the month of January was spent studying for exams so we did not have much class time...
From PC Mag: Soon, the United States government might track drones just as it does airplanes and helicopters. CNBC reports the Federal Aviation Administration has proposed a new rule in which the federal government would be able to track almost all drones.
The draft notes a remote ID system...
From CNET: Facebook's grip on Messenger got tighter this week. The social networking giant said it's requiring new people who sign up for its Messenger communications app to tie it to their Facebook account, effectively forcing them to reveal their identities and tie their communications to their...
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