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Centuries-Old Artifacts Discovered Beneath Malcolm X’s Childhood Home
"I wish it hadn't happened, but we're recovering a lot of materials that were in the house that the family hadn't seen since the looting in the '70s," Bagley told Live Science, adding that Rodnell Collins has been able to identify toys that he played with and pieces of his mother's mixing bowl. "What I think we're really going to find is, Ella's story more than Malcolm's story here. She was the one who bought most of the materials in the house." … [Read more...] about Centuries-Old Artifacts Discovered Beneath Malcolm X’s Childhood Home
Now-dead radio telescope finds bizarre venomous-spider star
The seeming crossbreed star is difficult to categorize. For now, researchers have labeled it a redback because its companion sometimes eclipses its ticking light. And that companion has a mass at least 0.055 times the mass of the sun (possibly larger), which would be quite heavy for a black widow, though quite light for a redback. For now, the exact mechanisms of that system are still a mystery. … [Read more...] about Now-dead radio telescope finds bizarre venomous-spider star
Controlling VR with my mind: NextMind’s dev kit shows me a strange new world
This story is part of CES, where our editors will bring you the latest news and the hottest gadgets of the entirely virtual CES 2021. In my Oculus Quest VR headset, I was in a room surrounded by large-brained aliens. Their heads flashed, white and black. I turned to one, staring at it. Soon enough, its head exploded. I looked at the others, making their heads explode. Then I looked at a flashing portal marker across the room and was gone. I did this without eye tracking. A band on the back of my head was sensing my visual cortex with electrodes. … [Read more...] about Controlling VR with my mind: NextMind’s dev kit shows me a strange new world
Facebook’s VR-AR visionary on what comes after the Oculus Quest 2
You could build glasses that were audio based. I think, though, that everyone has in their head this picture of what glasses are going to do for you. The question is, when do we get that true AR imagery imagery? Sure, there could always be intermediate things that pop up. Did you ever hear of smart typewriters? In the '70s, as microprocessors were developed, they started to make typewriters where you could have a little LCD window that would let you edit the last few lines. When you made a mistake, you could actually go back and fix it. And that was a big business. The reason I bring it up is that smart typewriters were successful, they were a big business category, and no one has ever even heard of them these days. Those intermediate things, people will do them. Focals by North was a good example of someone doing what I would call an intermediate product of limited capability. But I want to get to that thing where you see it, and you go off and you write the articles that say I've … [Read more...] about Facebook’s VR-AR visionary on what comes after the Oculus Quest 2