It sounds almost like science fiction: a tiny world that formed around another star, visiting our cosmic neighborhood for us to study. And yet that’s exactly what has happened, twice now as of the last few months. It will only happen more often this decade.Original story reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine, an editorially independent…

This month, Microsoft finally released its new and improved Microsoft Edge browser, which the company rebuilt from scratch. If you’re in the market for break from Chrome, Edge has a few new features that are worth checking out.Edge might look familiar if you’ve used Microsoft’s browser before, but it’s undergone major changes under the hood.…

This year’s crop of Super Bowl ads includes plenty of the usual suspects: expensive cars, cheap beers, big tech. But among the companies coughing up a reported $5.6 million for 30 seconds of Big Game glory is one name most people have never heard of, selling a product that many don’t know exists: Dashlane, an…

If you don't have cable, it can be tough figuring out how to stream the Super Bowl. Airing today, this year's game has the San Francisco 49ers facing off against the Kansas City Chiefs at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami. It's time to break out the chip dips, don your favorite jersey, and maybe win…

Rajiv Shah is president of the Rockefeller Foundation, one of the nation’s oldest philanthropies, founded by oil baron John D. Rockefeller in 1913. President of the foundation since 2017, Shah previously was administrator of the US Agency for International Development, and held several posts at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He met recently with…

ZSA Technology Labs Planck EZ GlowThe oddly labeled command keys flanking the Planck's teensy space bar are the real space savers. They provide access to up to 32 different characters or functions per letter key. Plus, the Planck is ortholinear; the keys are aligned on a grid rather than staggered. This makes it more compact…

In a colossal office scattered with drums, family mementos, and a successfully-frail whiteboard, on the 2d floor of Creatlve Artist Agency‘s Los Angeles glass, steel, and marble headquarters, Michael Yanover…

Aid in 2016, Nutanix decided to buy the big step of going public. Section of that assignment used to be increasing a pitch deck and presenting all of it the…

Welcome assist to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch sequence that recaps the most contemporary OS data, the functions they toughen and the money that flows through all of…

A new telescope in Hawaii called the Daniel K. Inouye telescope has taken the highest-resolution-ever image of the surface of the sun. The photo reveals the boiling surface, and the mesmerizing pattern looks like popcorn. Fusion reactions—individual hydrogen nuclei smashing together and creating helium—happen nearly every second in the core of the sun, and the…