Category: Shorts

Will SpaceX’s Starship Finally Take Flight This Week? #shorts #launch #SpaceX #second test flight #CEO Elon Musk Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX is hoping to finally launch its Starship rocket this week. The world’s tallest and most powerful rocket, it could be a big step towards NASA’s goal of sending humans back to the moon.…

AI experts are raving about Nvidia’s H200 GPU. Here’s why. #shorts #Nvidia #new chips #1.4x more memory #H100 Introducing the HGX H200, the newest top-of-the-line chip from Nvidia! This bad boy has 1.4x more memory bandwidth and 1.8x more memory capacity than the wildly in demand H100, making it perfect for handling intensive generative AI…

The REAL Reason We Wear Clothes (You Won’t Believe #4!) #shorts #archaeological evidence #clothing #answer lice #nonbiodegradable synthetic fibers Scientists are still trying to figure out when humans started wearing clothes. The oldest piece of clothing we have is a linen v-neck shirt from Egypt that’s about 5,000 years old. But there’s evidence that humans…

Google warns of new malware that uses AI hype to trick users. #shorts #Google #malware #lawsuit #scammers Google is suing some scammers who are trying to use the hype around generative AI to trick people into downloading malware. The download actually delivers malware to the victims, which steals social media credentials for the scammers to…

Big Tech Destroyed Trust. Now Startups Are Fixing It. #shorts #other platforms #trust and safety teams #cuts #people Tech companies have been laying off trust and safety teams left and right. It’s a real shame, because these are the people who keep our online communities safe. But don’t worry, there’s a new service that’s going…

Want a Facebook Ad-Free Zone? Here’s How to Get One #shorts #Meta #first ad-free option #free option #Instagram Introducing Meta’s new ad-free option for Facebook and Instagram!** Now you can pay €10 a month to avoid seeing all those annoying ads. But wait, there’s more! If you sign up through the app, you’ll get to…

ISS Astronauts Drop Toolbag in Space: See It With Your Binoculars! #shorts #ISS #binoculars #darkish skies #6th magnitude Last week astronauts dropped a toolbag while working on the ISS. Don’t worry, you don’t need a telescope to see it, just some binoculars and darkish skies. The toolbag is tiny, but it’s reflective enough to be…

Mysterious Green Slime Bubbling Up From NYC Sewers: What Is It? #shorts #water system #tracing dye #bright liquid #New Yorkers New Yorkers were baffled last week when they saw fluorescent green goo oozing out of the sewers and onto the streets. The strange liquid was actually tracer dye, used by scientists and engineers to track…

“”Man’s Breasts Save His Life After Car Accident”” #shorts #temporary artificial lungs #emergency breast implants #Davey’s lungs #one A Wisconsin man’s life was saved by emergency breast implants after a drug-resistant lung infection left him in need of a double lung transplant. Doctors at the Northwestern Medicine Canning Thoracic Institute removed the infected lungs and…

Old Man Neanderthal’s Face Revealed After 50,000 Years! #shorts #mature Neanderthal gentleman #researchers #University #Neanderthals Researchers reconstructed the face of a 60-year-old Neanderthal who lived 50,000 years ago. The Old Man of La Chapelle, as he’s been dubbed, had a big nose, a prominent brow, and no chin, but he wasn’t as brutish-looking as you…