When Brent Whitehead and Matt Lohstroh were sophomores at Texas A&M University, they decided to get into the business of mining bitcoin on the oil fields of East Texas. The year was 2019, and at the time, the idea of oil and gas companies joining forces with bitcoin miners was considered both avant-garde — and a major taboo.

Device offers insights into artificial muscular pumps, a step toward building an artificial heart

Venus’ perpetually cloud-shrouded surface remains penetrable only by radio waves. A planetary radar group now reports results of an extended series of radar measurements of the topography of Venus that for the first time provides a view of surface height variations around the entire circumference of the planet.

Blood clots form naturally as a way to stop bleeding when someone is injured. But blood clots in patients with medical issues, such as mechanical heart valves or other heart conditions, can lead to a stroke or heart attack. That’s why millions of Americans take blood-thinning medications, such as warfarin, that make it harder for their blood to clot.

Apple Mac users running the Zoom meetings app are reporting that it's keeping their computer's microphone on when they aren't using it. The issue appears to affect the native app running on the current macOS release, Monterey, in which Apple has implemented a visual cue to alert users that an application or device is accessing their microphone or camera — via an orange or green dot in the Menu Bar, respectively.

McDonald's is joining a series of companies who are looking to cash in on Web3, including the metaverse.

If a 1-Gbps connection allows you to stream content and make video calls seamlessly, imagine what a 10-Gbps internet connection would be able to do for you. According to CableLabs, an innovation lab for the cable industry, this could be a reality before we turn into the next decade.

Programme about ‘self-made crypto-millionaire’ dropped amid questions over central claims

Claire Bridges, an aspiring model from Florida, had both legs amputated after she developed a life-threatening complication as a result of COVID.

Foxconn, the biggest assembler of iPhones, today announced that the component shortages that have constrained the supply of devices over the past two years are now showing signs of easing, Bloomberg reports.

Western Digital Corp said on Wednesday certain materials at two of its manufacturing units in Japan, operated by joint-venture partner Kioxia Holdings Corp, were contaminated and will result in reduced availability of flash storage devices.

SpaceX has lost 40 out of 49 recently deployed satellites, following solar winds creating a geomagnetic storm in space.

That "rapper" accused of billions in crypto fraud was also a Forbes contributor. Is it finally time to move past the contributor network?

A revolutionary pacemaker that re-establishes the heart’s naturally irregular beat is set to be trialled in New Zealand heart patients this year.

European leaders have responded to Meta's indirect warning to shut down its Facebook and Instagram operations across Europe if the social media giant is no longer able to process Europeans' data on US servers.

Reverends, rabbis and other religious leaders urged Meta Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg to permanently stop the company's plan for an Instagram version aimed at young users on Tuesday, in a letter sent by advocacy group Fairplay and their Children's Screen Time Action Network.

Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella tries to distract investors wondering about the state of its HoloLens business by positioning the metaverse against Microsoft's proposed purchase of Activision Blizzard. It mostly works.

Bungie and Capcom might be interested, too.

Unless you plan on to hang on for years, don't count on a rebound.

Water flows more easily through narrower carbon nanotubes than larger ones and we have struggled to explain why. Now, one team has an answer: it may all be due to quantum friction.

As Hollywood studios battle pandemic fallout and feed movies to streaming services, audiences can expect far fewer theatrical releases than usual in 2022.

The new substance is the result of a feat thought to be impossible: polymerizing a material in two dimensions. Using a novel polymerization process, MIT chemical engineers have created a new material that is stronger than steel and as light as plastic, and can be easily manufactured in large quantities.

The decline of its total user base puts more pressure on its big metaverse bet.

MIT chemical engineers have created a new material that is stronger than steel, as light as plastic, and can be easily manufactured in large quantities.

“No need for keystrokes or voices. I created this tweet just by thinking it,” tweeted Philip O’Keefe, a 62-year-old Australian with ALS. In a technology first, O’Keefe used a computer chip in his brain to send the first “direct-thought tweet.”

A new machine learning system can predict the structure formed when two proteins dock, in a process that’s between 50 to 800 times faster than some software-based methods. This could help scientists better understand biological processes or speed the development of new therapies.

After a years-long process, data protection officials across the European Union have ruled that Europe’s ad tech industry has been operating unlawfully. The decision, handed down by Belgium’s APD (.PDF) and agreed by regulators across the EU, found that the system underpinning the industry violated a number of principles of the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). The Irish Council for Civil Liberties has declared victory in its protracted battle against the authority which administers much of the advertising industry on the continent: IAB Europe.

In his 1641 book Meditations on First Philosophy, the French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist Rene Descartes sought to rigorously challenge the foundations of all his beliefs. As Descartes wrote:

The race is on to cash in on the metaverse hype. Last week, Microsoft described its $68.7 billion takeover of gaming studio Activision Blizzard—a move that would have usually been interpreted as the Xbox maker simply expanding in the gaming sector—as a way to create the “building blocks for the metaverse.” Meta—which rebranded from Facebook to be named after the metaverse—is at work on the world’s most powerful supercomputer, in order to power the metaverse.

Worldwide semiconductor revenue increased 25.1 per cent in 2021 to total $583.5 billion, crossing the $500 billion threshold for the first time, a Gartner report showed on Monday. Samsung Electronics regained the top spot from Intel for the first time since 2018, with revenue increasing 31.6 per cent in 2021. Its memory revenue grew 34.2 per cent in 2021, in line with the growth rate of the overall memory market.