Up top, there are mirrored ceilings—while gleaming black tile floors reflect the bookcases for a serious M.C. Escher effect

Upgrading to an iPhone 12? Apple Inc. is happy to take your old phone off your hands. For years, Apple has used such rhetoric to convince consumers that it’s a greener and more sustainable company than its competitors. Increasingly, it’s fair to ask how sincere it is.

Microsoft Corp is partnering with billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk-led SpaceX and others as it expands its cloud-computing platform into space, the software giant said on Tuesday.

Donald Trump maintains a bank account in China where he pursued licensing deals for years, according to a report that could undermine the president’s election campaign claim that he is tough on Beijing.

Burger King is planning to test reusable containers starting next year as part of its efforts to reduce waste.

Entrepreneurs are building tools that create emails or marketing copy using GPT-3, text-generation technology released earlier this year.

After the first reviews for the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro emerged yesterday, a new report by Tom's Guide reveals the extent of battery life reductions when using 5G. The report outlines a test wherein the iPhone surfs the web continuously at 150 nits of screen brightness, launching a new site every 30 seconds until the battery drains. Interestingly, the test was run on an iPhone 12 and 12 Pro both over 4G and 5G.

This magnificent 360-degree panoramic image, covering the entire southern and northern celestial sphere, reveals the cosmic landscape that surrounds our tiny blue planet. This gorgeous starscape serves as the first of three extremely high-resolution images featured in the GigaGalaxy Zoom project, launched by ESO within the framework of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009).

Encoding memories in engram cells is controlled by large-scale remodeling of the proteins and DNA that make up cells’ chromatin, according to an MIT study. This chromatin remodeling, which allows specific genes involved in storing memories to become more active, takes place in multiple stages spread out over several days.

The backlighting system of MacBook Pro keyboards could be upgraded to include TrueTone capabilities, with Apple examining the use of multiple LEDs per key to make the light seem even despite changes in the local environment.

On the morning of 11th October, 2020, as the sun touched the horizon from below, I heard my voice for the first time in 11 days. I chanted ‘OM’ in a deep tone, vibrating the air in all the hollow spaces of my body, and the air around me. This followed by an ancient Pali phrase ‘Bhavatu Sabba Mangalam’ (may all blessings come true for all beings).

"I want crystal clean water and air." That's what Donald Trump said in the first chaotic presidential debate with Joe Biden. But there is scant evidence of that desire in the actions of his administration, which has spent nearly four years systematically dismantling core environmental protections, some of which stretch back decades.

A new molten salt reactor design can scale from just 50 Megawatts electric (MWe) to 1,200 MWe, its creators say, while burning up nuclear waste in the process. You like nuclear. So do we. Let's nerd out over nuclear together. Energy Daily founder Llewellyn King suggests the large reactor represents a move of public sentiment after public obstacles have continued to push the timeline on popular tiny reactor startup NuScale.

Life is here. Can they see it?

America has long carried on a great love affair with technological progress. But the truth is that really big inventions—the printing press, the internal-combustion engine, the internet—have both upsides and downsides. They make new things possible, but they also tend to undo settled expectations and create chaos. The real question is not whether there will be major technological changes, but whether societies can learn to better handle the disruptions that follow.

Six Russian military officers have been charged in what the Justice Department says was a hacking scheme to attack several major foreign powers, former Soviet republics and subvert investigations into nefarious activities by the Kremlin.

The Oscar-winning actor revealed his lymphoma diagnosis on Twitter Monday evening.

Bitcoin and cryptocurrency traders are searching for direction, with the market more-or-less treading water since the summer. The bitcoin price, hovering around $11,400 per bitcoin, has been trading broadly in line with equity markets in recent months—with groundbreaking announcements, including payments company Square SQ +0.7% buying bitcoin, failing to much move the market.

Piling on big tech companies is the fashion of the day, but don't expect the US government to break up Google.

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