Beats Pill Bluetooth Speaker Review: Back from the dead and improved in a few major ways

8.5/ 10 SCORE Beats Pill (2024) Pros Very good sound quality for its size Strong battery life USB-C audio and charging function IP67 waterproof and dustproof Speaker function Integrated lanyard Cons No auxiliary entrance Heavier than Bose SoundLink Flex A few years ago, Beats was owned by Apple stopped taking his Pill Plus Bluetooth speaker, … Read more

Edward Stone, 88, physicist who oversaw Voyager missions, is dead

Edward C. Stone, the visionary physicist who sent NASA’s Voyager spacecraft to run rings around our solar system’s outer planets and, for the first time, go further to unravel interstellar mysteries, died Sunday at his home in Pasadena, California . 88. His death was confirmed by his daughter Susan C. Stone. Inspired by the launch … Read more

To kill the competition, bacteria throw bits of dead viruses at them

Enlarge / This is an intact phage. A tailocin looks like one with the head cut off. Long before people became interested in killing bacteria, viruses were already at work. Viruses that attack bacteria, called “phages” (short for bacteriophage), were first identified by their ability to create bare spots on the surface of culture plates … Read more

The world is using more oil, coal and gas than ever before and will continue to do so. Net Zero is dead

A key point of consensus regarding global oil demand is the expectation that it will remain robust, driven by a combination of factors including economic recovery, increased travel and rising industrial activity in non-OECD countries. The only major body not seeing sustained, massive growth is the International Energy Agency (IEA), which revised its figures this … Read more

In theory: what would a current-gen upgrade for Red Dead Redemption 2 look like?

It is one of the most baffling mysteries of the current generational era. So many PS4 and Xbox One titles have received remasters or 60fps upgrades and yet one game stands alone… Red Dead Redemption 2. There’s no real reason why developer Rockstar can’t release a vastly improved version of the game for PS5 and … Read more

‘Great’ dad slipped at work and was dead within weeks

A ‘loving and wonderful’ father died after a horrific workplace accident. On November 30, 2016, 37-year-old father-of-four Michael Densmore from Halewood was erecting scaffolding at a chemical factory in Northwich. During the task, he stepped over a trough containing a liquid chemical, calcium hydroxide (commonly known as ‘milk of lime’) that had been heated to … Read more

Dead hand or something else? A possible explanation for station UVB-76 with strange numbers

Imagine you are a ham radio enthusiast, alone at night, idly working your way through the radio spectrum when you come across a broadcast on a disused shortwave transmitter, where there is normally only static electricity. The broadcast is a tune, or a buzz, or sometimes cartoon character Yosemite Sam saying, “Varmint, I’m going bbb-bloooow … Read more

“Google is dead.” Google’s desperate attempt to prey on Microsoft’s search AI has reportedly led to the company recommending eating rocks

Google on a PC with a weird robot

What you need to know Google recently acquired exclusive rights to reddit content to power its AI. Google’s AI has now gone completely crazy. Users with access to Google’s AI search have reported that Google recommends eating rocks and glue and possibly even committing suicide – although not every reported answer has been reproduced. Comparative … Read more

Is the main rival theory of dark matter dead? There’s bad news from the Cassini spacecraft and other recent tests

The Jamess Webb Space Telescope

This article was originally published on The conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com Expert voices: opinion pieces and insights. Indranil Banik is a postdoctoral researcher in astrophysics at the University of St Andrews. Harry Desmond is a Senior Research Fellow in Cosmology at the University of Portsmouth. One of the greatest mysteries in… … Read more