Let the moon show you Antares, a red supergiant star and the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius the Scorpion on the morning of March 5. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/moon-antares-morning-of-mar-5-2021…
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How Worried Should You Be About Those Tom Cruise Deepfakes?
Are the TikTok deepfake videos of Tom Cruise doing magic and playing golf a threat to global democracy? Not exactly. “[T]he reality is that they took a lot of time, technical expertise, and the skilled performance of a real actor,” reports VICE News. “Rather than predicting a dark future of disinformation for the masses, they’re simply another example of what can…
LG Says It Will License webOS To Other TV Makers
LG will make its webOS software available to other companies. From a report: The proprietary software on LG’s own sets will be able to be licensed by outside TV brands, the company announced Wednesday. Notably, TV brands that choose to bring LG’s software to their televisions will also get its Magic Motion remote, LG’s very good cursor-like wand. It would also…
Galaxies have magnetic fields, too! Images here
Until recently, magnetic fields in the outskirts of galaxies were too faint to be detected. Although it’s still not clear what causes them or how they’re maintained, astronomers have started to create images of their observations of galaxies’ magnetic fields producing beautiful aurora-like effects. See them here. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/images-of-magnetic-fields-in-galaxies…
Moon and Antares before dawn February 6
Let the moon show you Antares, the red supergiant star, on the morning of February 6, 2021 Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/moon-antares-scorpius-feb-before-dawn…
Watch ISS spacewalk January 27
On Wednesday, January 27, 2021, 2 NASA astronauts will perform the first in a pair of International Space Station spacewalks, to finish installing a European science platform and complete long-term battery upgrade work. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/watch-iss-spacewalk-jan2021…
Sri Lankan minister drinks ‘magic potion’
A politician who consumed a potion said to ward off coronavirus has since tested positive for the disease. In a striking example of how blind belief c… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/343293/sri-lankan-minister-drinks-magic-potion…
‘Magic mushrooms’ grow in man’s blood after injection with shroom tea
The man spent 22 days in the hospital with a severe infection. Source: https://www.livescience.com/magic-mushroom-injection-case-report.html
Forgotten PS1 Game ‘Magic Castle’ Finally Emerges Two Decades Later
It might have taken more than 20 years, but a game intended for the original PlayStation has at last made its way into the world. Engadget reports: A group of Japanese developers worked on Magic Castle for eight months in the late ’90s. They used Sony’s Net Yaroze, a system with which hobbyists could make games for the console. The team…
Basecamp Releases Hotwire for Building Web Applications Using ‘HTML Over the Wire’
Basecamp’s David Heinemeier Hansson (the creator of Ruby on Rails) announced on Twitter this week that “all the tricks and tooling we used to build the front-end for Hey.com” have now been released as Hotwire (also known as New Magic), “an alternative approach to building modern web applications without using much JavaScript by sending HTML instead of JSON over the wire.”…