BARCELONA — Mobile World Congress made a big comeback this year — but the term on everyone’s lips wasn’t “smartphones” or “5G.”
Instead, it was the “metaverse,” a vague concept used to describe vast digital worlds in which users can work, play games or even party.
The term has been the...
WASHINGTON — Northrop Grumman and Voyager Space executives said their decision to work together on a commercial space station project, rather than pursue competing efforts, is a natural progression for an emerging industry.
The two companies announced...
Has someone on the internet asked you to recommend a good bop? Get your playlists ready! Here’s what this fun, music-related slang term means and how to use it online.
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An element commonly classified as rare earth is being used to advance energy storage systems.
In detail, researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology discovered that lanthanum trihydride, a compound of lanthanum and hydrogen, when lightly doped with oxygen shows potential as an efficient hydrogen carrier.
In a paper published in...
For some, mobile phone addiction might be a bad thing. The city of Xi'an, meanwhile, has embraced it.
Over the weekend, pedestrians in the northern Chinese city could walk, phone in hand and head down, along a new footpath dedicated to just that, reports Inquirer.net.
The Yanta Road footpath, opened by...
Microsoft is continuing to transition users away from the Control Panel on Windows 11 by moving various options to the Settings app.
Windows 11’s latest preview build, version 22523, introduces key changes as part of the company’s “ongoing effort...
The way that electrons paired as composite particles or arranged in lines interact with each other within a semiconductor provides new design opportunities for electronics, according to recent findings in Nature Communications.
What this means for semiconductor components, such as those that send information throughout electronic devices, is not yet...
The long-term transformation towards renewable energies is inconceivable without modern energy storage technologies. These include batteries, in which electricity is temporarily stored in the form of chemical energy.
Essential for their efficiency is the availability of suitable...
Twitch, the popular online service used to stream games and digital video broadcasts, announced last week that some user data had been exposed on the internet. The cause was contributed to a configuration error in a Twitch server which led to the...
For years, Google was determined to spread its users across as many communication platforms as possible. Hangouts, Allo, Duo, Google Plus – the company couldn’t settle on a single app, service, or website. But in recent months, Google has finally learned that...
