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Einstein Showed That Time Is Relative. But … Why Is It?

So, you’re driving a car at half the speed of light. (Both hands on the wheel, please.) You turn on the headlights. How fast would you see this light traveling? What about a person standing by the road? Would they see the light beam moving at 1.5 times the speed of light? But that’s impossible, right? Nothing is faster than light. Yes, it seems tricky. The problem is, our ideas about the world are based on our experiences, and we don’t have much experience going that fast. I mean, the speed of

ChatGPT may soon watermark your AI-generated images, but there could be a way out (APK teardown)

Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority TL;DR OpenAI could be exploring image watermarking for ChatGPT-generated images. Previous leak suggests the watermark might primarily affect free users, with a “save without watermark” option for some. This feature is not yet official and may be subject to change before public release. OpenAI is working on a lot of new features for ChatGPT. We’ve spotted features like Study Together, Image Styles, and even a yearly plan in the works. Continuing the spree,

RisingWave: An Open‑Source Stream‑Processing and Management Platform

🌊 Ride the Wave of Streaming Data. Docs | Benchmarks | Demos RisingWave is a stream processing and management platform designed to offer the simplest and most cost-effective way to process, analyze, and manage real-time event data — with built-in support for the Apache Iceberg™ open table format. It provides both a Postgres-compatible SQL interface and a DataFrame-style Python interface. RisingWave can ingest millions of events per second, continuously join and analyze live streams with histo

Does Your Favorite Emoji Crack the List of CNET's Top Picks?

Every July 17, the internet comes together and celebrates World Emoji Day. The date was chosen because it's displayed on the 📅 calendar emoji, but it's a day to appreciate all emoji, even the more obscure ones, like the 🫙jar. In honor of the internet holiday, I asked my colleagues at CNET what their favorite and most used emoji are. The rules for voting were simple: You could only vote once for your favorite emoji and once for your most-used emoji. There was more variety in the category of favo

The Best Meal Replacement Shakes for Total Life Optimization (2025)

Flavor Texture Satiety TOTAL 8 8.5 9.2 8.6 With its founding in 2013, Soylent blazed a trail in the protein drink and meal-replacement market by eschewing the target markets of gains-obsessed bros and geriatrics without teeth to focus on busy tech bros who were fed up with the cost and inconvenience associated with food you have to cook and chew. It was a brilliant pitch back then, and founder Rob Rhinehart’s predictions of a technocratic hellscape where worker drones grind too hard to be bothe

Android Phones Can Detect Earthquakes Before the Ground Starts Shaking

Since their first implementation in Mexico and Japan, earthquake early-warning (EEW) systems have provided critical advance notice of imminent earthquakes to countless people. Many seismic countries, however, still don’t have the infrastructure necessary to sustain such crucial networks, leaving their populations vulnerable to devastating earthquakes. Researchers in the U.S. and Germany have tested a global earthquake detection and alert system that makes use of a device many people already own

Get a Free Storm Skin, Hawkeye Skin and More in Marvel Rivals Season 3

Marvel Rivals season 2.5 may have taken our heroes off-world as they battled across Arakko, but season 3 is throwing us into the furthest reaches of space to fight a new threat: Knull and his symbiote army. Stopping one symbiote is tough enough. Fighting off an army of them is going to require a whole new wardrobe's worth of battle gear. Luckily for you, there are many ways to unlock some free skins in the hit hero shooter right now -- including the Milano Repair Logs event that evens the odds

Assemble for the Classic Age of ‘Avengers’ Comics in This Retro-Tinged Marvel Preview

After bringing Alex Ross back to the realm of the Fantastic Four with the release of his graphic novel Full Circle a few years ago, Abrams is returning to the world of original Marvel Comics with a new tale, with a new creative team, and some very classic Avengers. io9 can give you a sneaky look inside Chip Kidd and Michael Cho teaming up for The Avengers in The Veracity Trap, the second entry in Abrams’ line of MarvelArts releases. Built around the classic early era of the Avengers—with a team

Elgato brightens up its Stream Deck and mics with four new colors

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Elgato has released four new color options for its Stream Deck and other streaming accessories as part of a new Dreamscape collection designed to better match the aesthetic of a studio or gaming room. The devices and accessories have previously typically only been available in white or black, but are now available in forest green, pink petal, wil

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How I started my own LinkedIn newsletter for free - in 5 easy steps

David Gewirtz / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET It's been almost exactly two years since I launched my weekly Advanced Geekery email newsletter on Substack. Each week, I list my latest ZDNET articles, showcase any new videos I put out, sometimes spotlight projects I'm working on (and those of readers), and share a few great YouTube videos and articles worth reading. The newsletter is a great way for those who like my work to keep up with what I produce. Recently, I've started getting requests fo

I Asked CNET Staffers Their Favorite Emoji for World Emoji Day. Smileys Reign Supreme

Every July 17, the internet comes together and celebrates World Emoji Day. The date was chosen because it's displayed on the 📅calendar emoji, but it's a day to appreciate all emoji, even the more obscure ones, like the 🫙jar emoji. In honor of the internet holiday, I asked my colleagues at CNET what their favorite and most used emoji are. The rules for voting were simple: You could only vote once for your favorite emoji and once for your most-used emoji. There was more variety in the category of

ESA’s Moonlight programme: Pioneering the path for lunar exploration (2024)

Applications ESA's Moonlight programme: Pioneering the path for lunar exploration 15/10/2024 10144 views 62 likes Imagine a near future where services such as satellite navigation, video conferencing, and file sharing are as seamless on the Moon as they are on Earth. That’s the vision of ESA’s Moonlight programme, which aims to establish Europe’s first-ever dedicated satellite constellation for telecommunication and navigation services for the Moon. With over 400 planned lunar missions by spac

Hand: open-source Robot Hand

Project is licensed under Apache 2.0 Mechanical design is licensed under a : Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Amazing Hand project Robotic hands are often very expensive and not so expressive. More dexterous often needs cables and deported actuators in forearm i.e.. Aim of this project is to be able to explore humanoid hand possibilities on a real robot (and Reachy2 is the perfect candidate for that !) with moderate cost. => Wrist interface is designed for Reachy2's wr

Best T-Mobile Plans: How to Choose and Which Ones to Pick in 2025

The T-Mobile Essentials Saver plan offers unlimited data usage and includes 50GB of "Premium" data, which is the fastest-capable 5G rate available in your area. After 50GB, speeds are reduced to 3G levels for the remainder of the month. However, that Premium may not always be so premium: T-Mobile notes in the fine print that "Essentials customers may notice speeds lower than other customers and further reduction if using >50GB/month, due to data prioritization." You can use your phone as a mobi

If You Put $10,000 Into a CD Now, This Is How Much Interest You'll Earn

No matter how much you deposit, a CD can help you maximize your returns. Mensent Photography/Getty Images Certainty is a rare thing in today's economy. But one place you can find it is in a certificate of deposit. Your rate is locked in when you open a CD, so you can rest assured that your returns will never change. You know precisely how much your CD will be worth when it matures. But which account you choose plays a big role in how much interest you can earn. Top CDs offer annual percentage

ESA's Moonlight programme: Pioneering the path for lunar exploration

Applications ESA's Moonlight programme: Pioneering the path for lunar exploration 15/10/2024 10144 views 62 likes Imagine a near future where services such as satellite navigation, video conferencing, and file sharing are as seamless on the Moon as they are on Earth. That’s the vision of ESA’s Moonlight programme, which aims to establish Europe’s first-ever dedicated satellite constellation for telecommunication and navigation services for the Moon. With over 400 planned lunar missions by spac

A Recession Could Crush Your Finances. Keep Your Money Safe in These Accounts

Watch this: These Are the Safest Places to Keep Your Money Right Now 03:56 Putting your cash in the right places can help you maximize your returns and preserve your savings. zenstock/Getty Images/CNET It's been a brutal year for anyone following the economic headlines. Tariffs are on, then off, then on again. Prices are high either way. Layoffs are picking up. Oh, and a recession may still be around the corner. The macroeconomic situation is out of your control, but there are steps you can t

Weave (YC W25) is hiring an AI engineer

At Weave, we’re building the best software for the best engineering teams to move faster, and we want to hire exceptional engineers to help us do so. We are a well-funded startup, backed by top investors, growing rapidly and currently profitable. You'll be working directly with me (Andrew), the CTO. Before I was CTO of Weave I was the founding engineer at Causal, and I want to give you all the support and growth opportunities in this role that I got when I went through it. You’ll also be work

US Importers Sued for 'Greenwashing' Mexican Avocados

Expand your understanding of food systems as a Civil Eats member. Enjoy unlimited access to our groundbreaking reporting, engage with experts, and connect with a community of changemakers. But there’s a dark side to this booming market. Nearly all avocados sold in the U.S. are imported, and most of those come from just two western Mexican states—Michoacán and Jalisco—where serious concerns are being raised about their environmental and human impacts. A 2023 investigation by the NGO Climate Rig