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Worldwide, lightning strikes 40–120 times per second, killing more than 4,000 people each year and incurring billions of dollars in damage. Yet the lightning rod, which was invented by American polymath Benjamin Franklin in 1749, continues to be the primary…
The competition to be the first nation to launch satellites from the European continent has intensified as Sweden inaugurated its new launch facility on Friday, just days after a botched UK satellite launch. As competition heats up to be the…
After the navy and the pipeline owner also started surveys this week, Swedish prosecutors announced Friday that they would launch a fresh, complementary crime scene examination of the Nord Stream leaks. Public prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist issued a statement saying, “I…
Even the social network admitted the roll out of the rules, which say anyone can ask Twitter to take down images of themselves posted without their consent, was marred by malicious reports and its teams’ own errors. It was just…
The social media giant took down accounts in France and Italy that were linked to a conspiracy movement called “V_V”, which inundated pro-vaccine posts with potentially tens of thousands of comments. “V-V” supporters also “mass-harassed” people on YouTube, Twitter, VKontakte…
A test run should humanity ever need to stop a giant space rock from wiping out life on Earth. It may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) is a real proof-of-concept experiment,…
which will bathe the Moon in red, will be visible Thursday and Friday for a big slice of humanity. The celestial show will see the Moon almost completely cast in shadow as it moves behind the Earth, reddening 99 percent…
Facebook is battling one of its most serious reputational crises yet after a whistleblower leaked reams of internal documents showing executives knew of their sites’ possibility for damage, prompting a renewed US push for regulation. “Facebook, now Meta, has failed…
five-year deal under which the world’s biggest internet search company will pay an undisclosed sum for content in Europe, The agreement, following 18 months of negotiations, is the first by a news agency under the 2019 European directive on so-called…
Apple wanted the change — ordered to be implemented by a December 9 deadline — put on hold as it appeals a ruling in September by judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in the antitrust suit filed by Epic. Epic filed the…