WTF?! YouTuber Daniel de Bruin has crafted a rather captivating creation – a machine that visualizes the number googol, or 1 with a hundred zeros behind it. That number, he said, is greater than the sum of all the atoms in the known universe.

To do so, he built a machine with 100 connected gears. When you turn the gear at one end, it slowly turns the gear behind it at a rate of 1 to 10. So, for example, completing 10 full

In context: It's never a fun time when a corporation ends support for its older products, but it's often considered a necessary evil -- after all, it can become quite expensive and impractical to keep particularly old software or hardware alive. Nonetheless, Sonos generated quite a bit of controversy earlier this year when it suddenly cut off support for many of its legacy products.

The company's Sonos Bridge, its first-gen Play: 5, the CR200, the Zone Players,

A hot potato: Intel's largely undocumented master controller for its CPUs has a vulnerability that cannot be fixed, and is so severe that it can allow malicious actors to bypass storage encryption, copyrighted content protections, and take control of hardware sensors in IoT devices.

Security researchers have discovered that a new vulnerability present in Intel chips that have been released over the last five years is unfixable outside of replacing the hardware that's currently being used in millions of commercial and enterprise systems.

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In a nutshell: Developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Perseverance tips the scales at near 2,300 pounds. It is undergoing final assembly and inspection at Kennedy Space Center with a planned launch date of July 17, 2020. Should everything go according to plan, the rover will touch down on the Red Planet’s Jezero Crater just after 3:40 p.m. Eastern on February 18, 2021.

NASA on Thursday announced that the successor to its

In brief: With film studios churning out video game adaptations left and right, it's probably no surprise to find out a TV show based on The Last of Us has been green lighted. Games usually have trouble translating to film. Often the writing is horrible, but in this case the writing will be coming directly from Naughty Dog and the creator of the HBO Chernobyl limited series.

On Thursday, HBO announced that it is partnering with Naughty Dog and PlayStation Productions to adapt The Last of Us into a television show

While opinions on Live Tiles in Windows are mixed at best, it seems they're here to stay. However, that doesn't mean Microsoft isn't working on cleaning up the Start Menu. Live Tiles have been a part of the Windows desktop experience since Windows 8, albeit the feature was de-emphasized within Windows 10. The polarity surrounding Live Tiles persists, and reports going as far back as last year have proclaimed the death of Live Tiles in favor of static icons.

In recent weeks the

The big picture: A unique mining operation in New York State consumes around 15 megawatts of the 106 megawatts the power plant produces. Even once the bitcoin halving takes place in May, cutting the block mining reward down to just 6.25 BTC, the undertaking should still be a success.

A surefire way to ratchet up profit in the business world is to cut out the middleman, the intermediary between two parties that inevitably ends up with a slice of the pie for their contribution. In cryptocurrency mining

In context: Prosthetic limbs have made enormous advancements in the last several years. The field of Neuroprosthetics aims to give amputees limbs that provide the natural function and movement of arms and legs, but current methods are invasive and require patients to relearn impulses to manipulate the prosthetic.

Neuroprosthetic arms are a particular challenge because of the complex ways the hand and fingers can move. Since the artificial limbs are controlled by muscle movement, nerve impulses, or a combination of both, most systems require quite a bit of practice to learn how

In brief: By 2023, the GSMA expects to see 5G overtake 2G with more than a billion connections. Come 2025, that number is forecasted to hit 1.8 billion, accounting for 20 percent of global connections and eclipsing the total number of live 3G connections.

The fourth generation of broadband cellular network technology, affectionately known as 4G, was the globe’s leading mobile technology in 2019 with over four billion connections. Collectively, it accounted