The wrestler-turned-actor talks on CNET’s I’m So Obsessed podcast about why being a dramatic actor is so important to him. And why no one can touch his lunchbox collection. …read more Source:: CNet

Passive homes are a fairly recent trend in home building, but promise a future with minimal energy inputs in our day-to-day. One of the challenges in this year’s Hackaday Prize is to envision ways to add utility to earthen homes often used in refugee camps where there is a housing crisis. Adding passive utilities to…

The ongoing persecution by the Chinese government of Uyghur Muslims is far from a distant problem. Recent reporting has identified Uyghur forced labor in the supply chain of major global brands, including BMW, Ralph Lauren, Samsung, and Sony. From a report: Now, as school districts scramble to obtain electronic devices for a school year that…

The leak poses no immediate threat to the ISS crew, but NASA want to investigate anyway. …read more Source:: CNet

Want a movie where a protagonist your age, race, sexuality, gender, and religion becomes an Olympic swimmer? You got it. Want a movie where someone demographically identical to your boss gets squeezed to death and devoured by a Burmese python? Your wish is its command. From a report: Want to leave out the specifics and…

Hackers are calling employees working from home and tricking them into accessing phishing pages for corporate domains. …read more Source:: ZDNet

The OpenStreetMap project is an excellent example of how powerful crowdsourced data can be, but that’s not to say the system is perfect. Invalid data, added intentionally or otherwise, can sometimes slip through the cracks and lead to some interesting problems. A fact that developers Asobo Studio are becoming keenly aware of as players explore…

When the power goes out, these trusty generators will kick into gear to save the day. …read more Source:: CNet

Voyager 2 has been traveling through space for 43 years, and is now more than 11 billion miles from Earth. But every so often, something goes wrong. From a report: At the end of January, for instance, the robotic probe executed a routine somersault to beam scientific data back to Earth when an error triggered…

Apparently, part of the 3.0-liter EcoDiesel’s crank position sensor can delaminate. …read more Source:: CNet