Back in the 20th century, Lego Technic was a popular toy designed to teach kids about mechanical technology, and be a lot of fun to boot. Motors and pneumatics were available, but by and large you had to move your creations and make the noises yourself. That’s not the case these days, as the [Brick…

The US Postal Service is also releasing colorful NASA stamps this year that highlight stunning images of the sun. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: For more than five years, macOS users have been the targets of a sneaky malware operation that used a clever trick to avoid detection and hijacked the hardware resources of infected users to mine cryptocurrency behind their backs. Named OSAMiner, the malware has been distributed in the…

That Stark Industries toaster and Hydra-labeled watch suggest a dark side beneath the suburban sunshine for Marvel’s Wanda and Vision. …read more Source:: CNet

If there’s anything about amateur radio that has more witchcraft in it than the design and implementation of antennas, we don’t know what it would be. On the face of it, hanging out a chunk of wire doesn’t seem like it should be complicated, but when you dive into the details, building effective antennas and…

BugTraq launched in November 1993 and it was one of the first mailing lists dedicated to disclosing vulnerabilities. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Ethan Hawke may play Moon Knight’s archnemesis on the Disney Plus show. He joins Oscar Isaac and May Calamawy. …read more Source:: CNet

Facebook is harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to help doctors predict whether they will need more resources, such as extra oxygen to care for COVID-19 patients in hospitals. CNET reports: The social network said Friday it developed two AI models, one based on a single chest X-ray, and another from a series X-rays, that…

Amazon.com and the “Big Five” publishers — Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster — have been accused of colluding to fix ebook prices, in a class action filed by the law firm that successfully sued Apple and the Big Five on the same charge 10 years ago. The Guardian reports: The…

The court ruling states that Toyota neglected to report emissions violations for its vehicles from 2005-2015. …read more Source:: CNet