We’re nearly five months into this new generation of consoles, and things are largely going as expected. It’s still frustratingly difficult to purchase either versions of the PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X | S. A wealth of high-profile games are being delayed into 2022 and beyond, largely due to the massive impact the pandemic had on all facets of development. But all things aside, the new boxes are solid pieces of hardware and show a bright future for both Microsoft and Sony.

Landing on Mars should be boring by now. NASA has been doing it since the 1970s. Last week, the agency did it again, achieving its sixth consecutive soft landing on the red planet, and its eighth total out of nine attempts. As records go, NASA never managed six consecutive controlled landings on the Moon, and either way, mere months after Neil Armstrong’s one small step for a man, the public had collectively tuned out the Apollo program.

Telstra has said it is now blocking approximately 6.5 million suspected scam calls a month, at times up to 500,000 a day, thanks to automating the former manual process that sat at around 1 million monthly scam calls.

Simone Biles is the last person international gymnastics officials should be using to try and make a point. In an effort to deter other gymnasts from trying skills they are not physically capable of doing, the International Gymnastics Federation watered down the value of a new element Biles plans to do at the world championships. That’s right. Penalize the reigning world and Olympic champion, who is almost cautious when it comes to adding difficulty, for the potential recklessness of others.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation says pranksters are hijacking weakly-secured smart devices in order to live-stream swatting incidents. "Recently, offenders have been using victims' smart devices, including video and audio capable home surveillance devices, to carry out swatting attacks," the FBI said in a public service announcement published today.

The platform was a haven for communities deemed too racist or hateful for Reddit.

New research suggests mindfulness-based cognitive therapy protects remitted depressed patients from relapse by reducing tendencies toward self-blame. The findings were published in Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging.

As a documentarian, Wilson has a receptive spirit and a fascination with arcane institutions and subcultures.

Console “Developer Mode” offers a way in for RetroArch’s dozens of emulation cores.

Top national security, foreign policy officials and activists this weekend issued a call for democratic nations to revitalize international institutions and pursue new, more flexible ways for governments to band together to confront China’s economic and technological warfare and aggressive military buildup.

Plate tectonics may have begun 4 billion years ago, almost a billion years earlier than we thought, according to a new analysis of ancient rocks. The claim has earned a mixed response from geologists. Many argue that Earth was too hot at the time for plate tectonics in its modern form.

One of Britain's largest spiders, the Great Fox Spider, once thought to have gone extinct, has been spotted for the first time after 27 years at a Ministry of Defence training ground in Surrey. After being untraceable for more than a quarter of a century in the UK, finally this year the conservationists report the sighting of 22 Great Fox Spiders, including mature males and one mature female.

President Donald Trump is a fierce backer of the fossil fuels industry. And that support is paying off big time in the money race. Trump is crushing Joe Biden in campaign donations from the embattled oil-and-gas industry. The president and outside groups aligned with him have raised nearly $13 million from individuals at oil-and-gas companies, according to OpenSecrets, a research group that tracks money in politics. That easily dwarfs the $976,000 the industry has sent to Biden.

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