Astronomers using the Hubble Telescope found that the region around a quasar’s black hole pushes out material at a few percent the speed of light. These quasar tsunamis wreak havoc on the galaxies in which the quasars live. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/quasar-tsunamis-rip-across-galaxies…
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Senate Unanimously Approves Bill To Ban Purchase of Huawei Equipment With Federal Funds
The Senate unanimously approved legislation on Thursday that would ban the use of federal funds to purchase telecommunications equipment from companies deemed a national security threat, such as Chinese group Huawei. From a report: The bipartisan Secure and Trusted Telecommunications Networks Act, which the House passed in December, bans the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from giving funds to U.S. telecom groups…
Elon Musk Releases an Electronic Dance Music Song
CNET shares “the latest, strangest news from the world of Elon Musk…electronic dance music?” It’s the second song he’s released on Emo G Records’ Soundcloud page following 2019’s RIP Harambe. On Thursday, Musk posted a series of tweets suggesting he’d written a song he was calling “Don’t doubt yer vibe” and was releasing it on Emo G Records. There was a…
Netflix Is Still Saying ‘No’ To Ads
“During its Q4 earnings call, Netflix shot down the idea of an ad-supported option for its service,” writes Slashdot reader saccade.com. TechCrunch reports: “Google and Facebook and Amazon are tremendously powerful at online advertising because they’re integrating so much data from so many sources. There’s a business cost to that, but that makes the advertising more targeted and effective. So I…
Cosmic Rays Are Starting to Tear Apart This Milky Way Satellite Galaxy
Researchers recently released simulations of the Large Magellanic Cloud — a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way — and found that cosmic rays from a starburst event are starting to rip it apart. Source: https://www.livescience.com/cosmic-rays-tear-apart-large-magellanic-cloud.html
Stars that eat planets can start spinning so fast they rip apart
When a star engulfs a planet it can end up spinning so fast that it rips apart. The resulting debris could help us learn about exoplanets that were consumed Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2217229-stars-that-eat-planets-can-start-spinning-so-fast-they-rip-apart/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Mystery green blob appears and disappears in distant galaxy
What is ULX-4 – a mystery green blob of X-ray light that appeared in the Fireworks Galaxy – and then soon disappeared again? A black hole or neutron star are 2 possibilities. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/mystery-green-blob-ulx-4-fireworks-galaxy…
Welcome to the 5th dimension: Our universe’s radical new fate
Our best models of cosmology suggest the universe will either go on forever, implode or rip itself apart. A new proposal suggests an even weirder destiny Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24332391-600-welcome-to-the-5th-dimension-our-universes-radical-new-fate/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Banned Chinese Security Cameras Are Almost Impossible To Remove
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: U.S. federal agencies have five weeks to rip out Chinese-made surveillance cameras in order to comply with a ban imposed by Congress last year in an effort to thwart the threat of spying from Beijing. But thousands of the devices are still in place and chances are most won’t be removed before the…
A Look at How Movies and Shows From Netflix and Amazon Prime Video Are Pirated
News blog TorrentFreak spoke with a member of piracy group “The Scene” to understand how they obtain — or rip — movies and shows from sources such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. The technique these people use is different from hardware capture cards or software-based ‘capping’ tools. From the report: “Content for WEB releases are obtained by downloading the source…