Category Archives: Technology

Meet Larry Connor, the Ohio billionaire who took a submarine to the Titanic despite the OceanGate explosion last summer

Billionaire Larry Connor will go to the sunken site of the Titanic in a two-man submarine. Connor’s journey took place after OceanGate’s submarine exploded in June 2023. Connor is a thrill seeker who broke a world record by jumping from a hot air balloon. The billionaire from Ohio, who flew into space and discovered the… Read More »

What you need to know about the giant ‘flying’ spiders spreading across the eastern US

Be prepared for palm-sized flying spiders. They may be coming to your neighborhood soon. Joro spiders have been rapidly spreading throughout the southeastern United States and are now moving north. Although poisonous, Joro spiders do not harm humans and prefer to stay outdoors. It sounds like a nightmare: poisonous, monster-sized spiders are slithering through the… Read More »

William Anders, astronaut on the first mission to orbit the Moon and photographed ‘Earthrise’ – obituary

William Anders, who has died aged 90, was an American astronaut who flew on what was considered NASA’s most daring space mission; As a member of the Apollo 8 crew, he became one of the first three men to travel to the Moon; Here they lingered in orbit for a day, capturing mankind’s first close-up… Read More »

Boeing Starliner and SpaceX Starship missions both reached spaceflight milestones this week

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, Sign up for free here. Events in space often do not develop like in the movies. But a spacecraft’s journey can offer awe-inspiring views and surprising moments that are more spectacular than fiction. SpaceX placed… Read More »

‘Let’s not give up now; ‘We are on the verge of success’

Susan Solomon was born and raised in Chicago and received her PhD in atmospheric chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. He is known for his work in the 1980s that revealed how the Earth’s protective ozone layer was being depleted by man-made chemicals. Their work formed the basis of the 1989 Montreal protocol, an… Read More »

Rural French site teaches England how to dispose of nuclear waste

An underground maze of tunnels built in the picturesque Champagne countryside of France is helping to teach British scientists how to dispose of nuclear waste. Many countries around the world are building geological disposal facilities (GDFs) deep underground to permanently house radioactive nuclear waste from power plants, nuclear weapons production, submarines, medical equipment, and more.… Read More »

Microsoft details how Automatic Super Resolution upscaler will benefit gamers with Copilot+ AI PCs

News that Microsoft develops its own AI-powered image amplifier So-called Automatic Super Resolution for games first appeared in February, later this system was only available on Copilot+ AI computers. Currently the only systems in this ecosystem are Snapdragon X laptops from Dell, Asus, MSI and other companies. However Microsoft explains in a blog Looking at… Read More »