Facebook said it would assist the company behind popular videogame “Fortnite” in its high-profile legal battle with Apple, as the social-media giant ramps up its own counterattack against what it says are the iPhone maker’s self-serving measures cloaked in the interest of privacy. From a report: Facebook has been feuding with Apple for months on issues ranging from prices for paid…
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SpaceX’s Starship SN8 prototype soars on epic test launch, with explosive landing
SpaceX’s Starship spaceflight system just took a big step on its path to Mars. Source: https://www.livescience.com/spacex-starship-sn8-test-launch-landing-explosion.html
Epic time-lapse shows what the Milky Way will look like 400,000 years from now
The Gaia space observatory just released its most detailed map of the universe yet, including the trajectories of hundreds of millions of stars. Source: https://www.livescience.com/gaia-map-40000-stars.html
‘It’s Time For Movie Theaters To Die So Movies Can Live Again’
Joshua Topolsky, writing at Input Mag: Movies are, by their very nature, good. Movies are one of the best things to have happened to the human race, probably ranking right up there in the top 5 with eating, sex, indoor plumbing, and music. We’ve probably all had formative experiences in one way or another around movies, and for many of us…
Stone Age humans chose to voyage to Japanese islands over the horizon
After tracking buoys drifting in the oceans, archaeologists argue that an epic Stone Age voyage from Taiwan to Japanese islands likely occurred deliberately Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2261813-stone-age-humans-chose-to-voyage-to-japanese-islands-over-the-horizon/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Earth is fighting a laser duel with the exploding Carina Nebula
An epic photo shows the ESO’s Very large Telescope firing four orange lasers at a distant star system. Source: https://www.livescience.com/carina-nebula-laser-explosion.html
New eclipsing binary system detected by Kepler spacecraft
An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new eclipsing binary system using NASA’s Kepler spacecraft during its prolonged mission known as K2. The system, designated EPIC 216747137, appears to be a post-common-envelope binary (PCEB) of HW Virginis class. The finding is detailed in a paper published October 26 on arXiv.org. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-11-eclipsing-binary-kepler-spacecraft.html…
Hundreds of App Developers Want to Join New Apple-Defying Coalition
The Washington Post reports: App developers are defying Apple in record numbers, according to a new coalition of companies aimed at breaking the iPhone maker’s tight grip over its mobile software and the way it governs the App Store. The Coalition for App Fairness, which launched last month and counts as members video-game giant Epic Games, dating company Match Group and…
Fortnite Remains Banned From Apple’s App Store After Judge Refuses Epic’s Request
Epic Games “did not win its preliminary injunction in its antitrust action against Apple, which would have forced Apple to allow Fortnite back onto the iPhone, iPad, and Mac,” reports BGR, calling it “the decision we warned you about a few weeks ago.” Gonzalez Rogers hinted during the injunction relief hearing a few weeks ago that she wasn’t inclined to side…
Meet the Pi planet. It orbits its star every 3.14 days
In a fun cosmic coincidence, researchers used old Kepler spacecraft data to discover an Earth-sized exoplanet with an orbital period of 3.14 days, a number that matches the mathematical constant pi. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/pi-exoplanet-k2-315b-has-3-14-day-orbit…