Google has started working to harden the security of Android at the firmware level, a component of the software stack that interacts directly with the various processors of a system on a chip (SoC). The plan is to expand the security in Android devices beyond the operating system, which runs on a multi-core CPU, to the other processors on the SoC for dedicated tasks like cellular communication, media processing, or security modules.

As well as getting a theatrical release, there are new reports indicating that Avatar 3 may be turned into a limited series for Disney+, with this version of the project clocking in at nine hours worth of content. James Cameron’s Avatar films are some of the most successful movies ever made, with both projects currently sitting in the top 5 for highest-grossing films of all time.

"Stop everything you are doing now and give an order to withdraw all your money from SVB. Don't ask me questions, just do it. Then we will think about what to do next and ask the questions," wrote Avi Eyal, managing partner of venture capital fund Entrée Capital, in a dramatic WhatsApp message to his portfolio companies on Thursday evening, noon New York time.

Plate umpire Reggie Drummer, who made an egregious third strike call to end Friday's game between New Orleans and Mississippi Valley State, has been suspended indefinitely.

Comet C/2023 A3 last visited Earth about 80,000 years ago. When it visits us in 2024, it could be about 100 times brighter than the green comet.

Even though the John Wick series features gratuitous violence and guns on guns on guns, the process of making the movie is probably (hopefully) a little bit nicer than it seems. We know that Keanu gives his input to make Wick look cool, and Chapter 4 brings in a new dangerous assassin from the High Table who considers John an ally.

For radioastronomers, the far side of the Moon could be the last unspoilt refuge in the Solar System. Planet Earth — and all the human-made electromagnetic noise it spews out into space — stays permanently below the horizon, so that any radio observatories positioned there would be free to observe the cosmos without interference.

According to a presentation to customers, ex-FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried allegedly let Alameda borrow $9.3 billion from customer accounts.

Every few months in recent years, Western news readers have been treated to a macabre tale: companies in China building massive multistory pig factory farms to feed the country’s appetite for pork. The agro-industrial phantasmagoria grows in scale with every iteration.

Digital retail banks in Singapore are pulling out all stops to win new customers, but industry observers question if it's sustainable in the long term.

Time and time again, the Apple Watch has been credited with saving lives with its heart monitoring, Emergency SOS, and fall detection features. Now, an Apple Watch user has taken to Reddit to share how their Series 7 saved their life, saying, “I’d have just passed out and died without ever knowing if not for my Apple Watch.”

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) lurk in the center of large galaxies like ours. From their commanding position in the galaxy's heart, they feed on gas, dust, stars, and anything else that strays too close, growing more massive as time passes. But in rare circumstances, an SMBH can be forced out of its position and hurtle through space as a rogue SMBH.

In 1977, Stephen King’s career flourished. His first three books, Carrie, Salem’s Lot and The Shining, had become worldwide bestsellers, and the author was already creating another blockbuster – over a thousand pages of The Stand. In addition, he had a drawer full of previously unpublished novels. With a frantic pace of creation (the author supported himself with stimulants), the writer had more material than he could publish. In those days, most publishers were limited to one book a year ...

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Learn about Bard, Google's new AI chatbot that will compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT for dominance in the buzzy new field that could change everything.

A newly released image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope shows a crowded field of galaxies and stars, with a distant spiral galaxy standing out in stunning detail. The large galaxy that sits at the bottom of the image, LEDA 2046648, is so clear in the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb) image that its individual spiral arms are visible.