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Nordamerika Vil Ikke Være i Stand til at Se den Længste Lunar Eclipse of the Century, Sorry
En 2015 lunar eclipsePhoto: Frank Schulenburg (Flickr) Månen er utroligt, og du bør se på det. Vores opfattelse af det er, altid i bevægelse, men nogle gange, Månens ansigt ændringer i en særlig dramatisk måde—ligesom når det sniger sig ind bag Jordens skygge og bliver rød. En specielt lang lunar eclipse vil forekomme i slutningen…
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Apple iOS 12 (Næsten) Løser det Værste ved iPhone X
Billede: Andrew Couts (Gizmodo) Den offentlige beta-version af Apple ‘ s nyeste mobile styresystem, iOS 12, er nu ude i naturen, og jeg kunne ikke vente med at få mine hænder på det for at finde ud af, om Apple havde virkelig fast de mest irriterende ting ved at bruge iPhone, X—screenshots—som vi forventede det…
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“Har jeg Været Pwned’ Integreres Med Firefox og 1adgangskode til at Fortælle Dig, Når Du har Været Pwned
Grafik: Gizmodo Med friske brud på datasikkerheden belægning næsten hver dag, er det umuligt for en person til at holde styr på det hele. Heldigvis er der en app til det, og snart begynder, vil det være endnu mere tilgængelige for millioner af brugere. Sikkerhedsekspert Troy Jagten på tirsdag meddelte, at hans data, brud service,…
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Microsoft ‘Forbedrer’ Racistiske Software Til Ansigtsgenkendelse
Foto: Drew Angerer (Getty) I en selvstændig lykønskninger flytte, har Microsoft annonceret, at nogle store forbedringer i dag, at dens grundlæggende forudindtaget software til ansigtsgenkendelse. Azure-baseret Ansigtet API blev kritiseret i et forsknings-papir, der tidligere i år for sin fejlprocent—så højt som en 20,8 procent—når de forsøger at identificere køn af farvede mennesker, især kvinder…
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The Rosetta Image Archive Is Now Complete and Freely Available, so You Can See a Comet Like Never Before
Comet 67P/Churyumov-GerasimenkoImage: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission to the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was one for the ages, providing an unprecedented look at this oddly shaped celestial object. The Rosetta probe captured nearly 100,000 images over the course of its mission, all of which are now freely available to the public…
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Microsoft Surface Laptop, One Year Later
Photo: Patrick Lucas Austin (Gizmodo) But lo, the Surface Laptop at a glance seemed downright practical. It’s an attractive laptop in a lightweight package with solid guts and a reasonable price tag. It’s got some of that Surface design flourish without any frills that make the device impractical. After spending a year with the model…
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It’s So Great That Apple Cares About macOS Again
Apple made it very clear there would be no iOS and macOS merge.Screenshot: Andrew Liszewski (WWDC 2018) But at WWDC earlier this June Craig Federighi’s stood on stage and emphatically assured the audience of developers and press that iOS and macOS are never going to be merged. “I was glad to hear that as an…
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That Trump Hotel Parody Site Was Made by a Conservative Angered by Trump’s ‘Border Fiasco’
Parody website TrumpHotels.org, which highlights the atrocities currently being committed against children held in detention by the U.S. governmentScreenshot: TrumpHotels.org So what gave him the idea to buy the TrumpHotels.org domain name and set up a satiricial website? He saw a friend use the #TrumpHotels hashtag to describe the immigrant detention centers, and thought it…
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North America Will Not Be Able to See the Longest Lunar Eclipse of the Century, Sorry
A 2015 lunar eclipsePhoto: Frank Schulenburg (Flickr) The Moon is incredible, and you should look at it. Our view of it is always in flux, but sometimes, the Moon’s visage changes in a particularly dramatic way—like when it sneaks behind the Earth’s shadow and turns red. An especially long lunar eclipse will occur at the…
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Apple iOS 12 (Almost) Fixes the Worst Thing About the iPhone X
Image: Andrew Couts (Gizmodo) The public beta version of Apple’s newest mobile operating system, iOS 12, is now out in the wild, and I couldn’t wait to get my hands on it to find out whether Apple had really fixed the most annoying thing about using the iPhone X—screenshots—as we expected it would when the…