The seventh generation of consoles headlined by Microsofts Xbox 360 may not be so dead after all. All you need is a little know-how, a USB drive, and a fair amount of patience. Youll need to format the USB drive to FAT32 format, but after that the instructions are relatively simple. © Kyle Barr / Gizmodo So you could use it to run theXbox 360 Homebrew Storestraight from the console....
And its unclear whether anything will stop Trump now that the country has reached such a lawless stage. The problem, of course, is that the U.S. isnt at war. Trump alleges most of the people deported this weekend were members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. A photo released by El Salvador’s president purporting to show people deported from the U.S. to El Salvador to the country’s prison for people accused of “terrorism....
The Dark Universe Shes beauty, shes spooky grace. How to Train Your Dragon: Isle of Berk This one is low-key my favorite. Universal also posted a preview of how the amazingly awesome dragon meet-and-greets will work. © Epic Universe Heres Astrid and Stormfly, and dont worry youll also be able to meet Toothless and Hiccup. Epic Universe opens May 22. Want more io9 news? © Epic Universe News from the future, delivered to your present....
NASAs SpaceX Crew-9 mission will depart from the ISS on Tuesday around 1:05 a.m. Live coverage of the Dragon hatch closing will begin on Monday at 10:45 p.m. ET on NASAswebsiteandNASA+.A live stream of Dragons undocking procedure will begin on Tuesday at 12:45 a.m. ET, and splashdown of the crew vehicle is expected around 5:57 p.m. NASA will resume live coverage of Dragons return at 4:45 p.m. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Nick Hague, and Suni Williams, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov inside the vestibule between the International Space Station and the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft....
The images feature HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years from Earth. The teams analysis of the Webb imagery waspublishedtoday in The Astrophysical Journal. Given what we know about the star they orbit, that likely indicates they formed via core accretion. An infrared image of the HR 8799 system.Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, W. Balmer (JHU), L. Pueyo (STScI), M. Perrin (STScI) (Our own solar system is about 4.6 billion years old)....
Musk has regularly used X to lambast the program, of course, while pushing his own Starlink service. BEAD was meant to address this with subsidies and incentives. Starlink is generally more expensive than broadband fiber. Head of rural broadband program calls SpaceX Starlink “inferior” to other internet options.Justin Sullivan Starlink is good if it is the only option. Musk has claimed that he has not used his newfound influence in Washington for financial gain or self-dealing....
New research, however, reveals that it often fails at a very basic task: telling time. Overall, the AI systems did not perform well. They read the time on analog clocks correctly less than 25% of the time. Researchers revealed that AI still struggles with simple tasks, such as reading the time on an analog clock.© wirestock via Freepik Most people can tell the time and use calendars from an early age....
While VPNs are often used for privacy protection, theyre actually far more than that. Why is this important? Well, there are plenty of reasons. © Gizmodo.com Malware infection could also infringe on your privacy or even make your gadget a milking machine for crypto miners. Additionally, if youre in a surveillance-ridden country,a VPN will encrypt your traffic and make it unreadable. Luckily, you’ve got the option to protect both sides of your privacy with NordVPN....
Key players of this sweeping cosmic epic include Black Panther, several Hulks (including Skaar! Imperialsfour-part saga begins on June 4. Want more io9 news? © Marco Checchetto/Marvel Comics News from the future, delivered to your present. © Iban Coello/Marvel Comics © Federico Vizentini/Marvel Comics © Marco Checchetto/Marvel Comics
Wegovy, eat your heart out. A team of researchers at Stanford Medicine conducted the study,publishedlast week in the journal Nature. The emergence of semaglutide and similar drugs in recent years has beentruly revolutionaryfor the field of obesity medicine. The GLP-1 medications Wegovy, Victoza, and Ozempic.© Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Does Ozempic Really Cause Thyroid Cancer? In that vein, the Stanford Medicine researchers devised a novel strategy to find their drug candidate....
Earths hadal zone includes marine regions 19,700 to 36,000 feet (6,000 to 11,000 meters) below sea level. New research sheds light on this dramatic environment and the creatures that call it home despite the extreme conditions. Of the more than 7,000 microbial species researchers documented in the samples, over 89% were previously unknown. The Mariana Trench.© NOAA The hadal zone features extreme pressure, near-freezing temperatures, low nutrient levels, and almost complete darkness....
Imagine hopping onto a large floatie in a lake or pool, and then trying to move. Weve all been therewithout paddling limbs, wind-catching sails, or a propelling engine, youre stuck. But what if we could make the water itself move you? Researchers developed a wave manipulation technique to precisely move floating objects.© NTUsg The water manipulation technique is driven by waves. They even noted that small external waves did not greatly disturb the pattern and object movement....
This natural disaster, called the Great Dying, killed most animals on the planet. New research shows that it also dramatically changed Earths ecosystems. Unsurprisingly, the researchers found that the biomes changed significantly during this transition. 252 million years ago, volcanic eruptions launched 100 trillion metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and triggered the Great Dying.© Boaworm, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Tropical everwet and summerwet biomes emerged in the tropics, replacing predominantly desertic landscapes, Brunetti continued....
