Vulture reports that the forthcoming, all-new Star Trek TV series on CBS is not only still a go, but that Star Trek TV alum Bryan Fuller will be a co-creator, executive producer, and showrunner for the new series. Fuller joins Alex Kurtzman, another Star Trek veteran and writer of the recent films, who has already signed on as an executive producer and co-creator. The series is expected to premiere next year on CBS....
A group of researchers from Harvard, Stanford, MIT, and LinkedIn recently published the results of a five-year-long study on social connections and job mobility in the journal Science. From 2015 to 2019, LinkedIn played with its underlying algorithm that powered its “People You May Know” feature by randomly varying the amount of weak and strong contacts suggested as new connections to 20 million of its users. LinkedIn measured mutual connections and interactions between users in order to correlate “strong ties” to close friends, and “weak ties” to more occasional acquaintances....
Mann is enrolled in Wailacki of the Round Valley Indian Tribes in northern California and is a colonel in the US Marine Corps. She served as a test pilot in the F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hornet and was deployed twice aboard aircraft carriers in support of combat operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan. In June 2013, she was selected as one of eight members of the 21st NASA astronaut class....
The Switch initially impressed players with its ability to “switch” from home console to handheld game console and back again. As it has matured, though, it has shifted its focus to offering a great games library at a much lower entry price than Sony and Microsoft’s half-a-G set-top boxes. A secondary Nintendo Switch console, the Nintendo Switch Lite, dropped the “switching” completely, opting instead for being a dedicated handheld game console at two-thirds the price of the original Switch—check out our Nintendo Switch vs....
Equally if not more important, seagrasses also are natural carbon sinks — even more effective at soaking up heat-trapping carbon pollution than forests on land. They soak up carbon in their leaves, and when they die, they decompose far more slowly than terrestrial plants, so that carbon remains buried for hundreds of years. “Seagrasses are the ultimate natural carbon sink,” said Richard K.F. Unsworth, a lecturer in marine biology at Swansea University in the UK....
The world’s oldest large organisms, Ediacara biota are a family of animals that date back 575 million years ago. They even existed before the Cambrian explosion, a major expansion of animal life that happened approximately 541 million to 530 million years ago and changed the course of evolution for all life on Earth. They are extinct, and the fossil specimens recovered have been shaped like discs or plant fronds and some rare specimens are close to eight inches in diameter....
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What they ended up with, described in Science magazine yesterday, were two-dimensional “living crystals” that form, break, explode and re-form themselves elsewhere. The researchers developed self-propelled particles that would turn on in response to blue light. When the light is on, the randomly swimming particles collide and cluster. A chemical reaction set off by the light causes the particles to crystalize. When the light turns off, the particles stop and split apart....
That’s in $187,610 Turbo S form, with the Overboost and launch control performance options set to maximum, as we’ve seen previously with Tesla’s “Ludicrous” mode. Electric vehicle batteries like to be treated more gingerly than that for maximum life, which is why EV makers have a special mode to deliver maximum performance rather than just having it on tap all the time. The Taycan has turned a 7:42 lap of the Nurburgring, which doesn’t break any records, but does put it on par with older mid-engine V12 supercars like the Lamborghini Murcielago and the Pagani Zonda....
Social media networks have revolutionized the way we share information and keep in touch with one another. But they’ve also led to a growing sense of information overload. There are only 24 hours in a day, so if you’re determined to be active on all of your accounts, giving each one the time it deserves can be daunting. One way to cut down on the time you spend inside your social apps is to post the same update across all of them at once....
When it comes to reconstructing how ancient creatures lived, palaeontologists like us are as much detectives as we are scientists. We’re used to partial evidence, dead ends, and red herrings. It’s especially hard to reconstruct ancient behaviors, something we are particularly interested in. We must rely on either skeletal remains or the physical things left behind by ancient people to deduce anything about their lives, be it what they ate, how they moved or the origins of complex behaviors like creating tools or communicating with language....
Sony HTX8500 2.1ch Dolby Atmos/DTS:X Soundbar with Built-in subwoofer, Black $238.40 (Was $399.99) The Sony HTX8500 is now $238.40, 40% off of its original $399.99 retail price. A built-in subwoofer provides bass deeper than Dracula’s laugh, and seven different sound modes let you customize the ambiance for your bash. Voice controls mean you don’t have to take your werewolf gloves off to replay “Monster Mash,” and 4K HDR passthrough-enabled tech means the Halloween score cuts like a knife through your party guest’s ears....
While the Phoenix rover is getting all of the press these days, the new study actually used records from older probes like Viking, Pathfinder and Opportunity. The study’s authors looked at data collected between 1976 and 2006 at different locations on Mars. In the various samples the researchers looked at, the soil had been depleted of elements that should have been present at the formation of the particular rock types....
Time: 10 minutes Cost: About $10 Cut off one end of an Ethernet cable, strip an inch of its outer sheath, and untwist the four pairs of colored wires inside. Rearrange the wires in this order: green-striped/green, orange-striped/blue, blue-striped/orange, brown-striped/brown. (This links one computer’s outputs to the other computer’s inputs, and vice-versa.) Evenly insert the wires into a new cable head (clip facing down) and secure them in place with an RJ45 crimp tool....
Those statistics and more are presented in a new report from the US Department of Transportation. Secretary Pete Buttigieg notes in a letter prefacing the publication that the country faces “a crisis on our roadways.” The report itself, called the National Roadway Safety Strategy, states that 2020 was a bad year for road deaths. About 38,680 lives were lost from motor vehicle accidents that year, an increase of about 7 percent over the year before....
This robot drum arm comes from Georgia Tech, and was originally designed as a way to help a drummer who had lost an arm. (No, not the one from Def Leppard.) Here, the drum arm augments an existing drummer. While the user in question is wearing a headband with sensors, that part of the project isn’t ready yet. Instead, the robot arm is drumming of its own accord, with some awareness of what the human is doing....
Shure KSE1500 Electrostatic Earphone System $2,099 (Was $2,999) The Shure KSE1500 Electrostatic Earphone System packs a 24-bit/96 kHz digital-to-analog converter, an amp, and isolating earphones into one pocketable package. This self-contained signal chain conveys every transient, every shudder and flutter in your tracks. Natural and spacious and distortion-free, the KSE1500 is insanely technically proficient. And built-in EQ/DSP allows for a bit of on-the-go tone tweaking. While the pack is a mildly hefty handful, the earphones themselves are extremely lightweight and, in total, this miniaturized desktop system is the peak of realism for those looking to scale Mt....
If you want something even simpler, Seiko’s Mechanical Automatic watch is a great, stylish option. The whole thing is stainless steel, from the case to the bracelet. It has a 39mm case, which is substantial, but not bulky. It also has both manual and automatic winding options so you can get the tactile satisfaction of turning the stainless steel crown every few days if you feel like it. It’s currently $219, down from its $550 regular price....
Study author Rod Snowdon, a professor of plant breeding at Justus Liebig University in Germany, says the work is intended to correct a common misconception: that the past half-century of intensive breeding to increase yields has made wheat crops weaker, and more susceptible to everything from disease to drought. He and his coauthors found this suspicious. “This kind of goes against breeding logic,” he says, “because the way that cultivars are bred is actually designed to make them better under difficult conditions....
