Science & Enviroment

An Asteroid Bigger Than the World’s Tallest Building Will Fly by Earth Next Month
12:03 2018-01-19

A massive “potentially hazardous” asteroid spanning more than the length of the world’s tallest building will fly by our planet on Feb. 4. The roughly .7-mile long asteroid is considered longer than the Burj Khalifa, which at .5 miles high currently stands as the world’s tallest building, and will fly at a speed of 67,000 …

iPhone ‘text bomb’ can crash your phone by text
09:02 2018-01-19

The code that causes Apple devices to freeze and sometimes crash was discovered and released by a software developer. A “text bomb” has been discovered which can crash iPhones just by being sent to a victim’s device. Software developer Abraham Masri discovered the bug and said he released it to get Apple’s attention after his …

Apple update will let users stop iPhone battery slowdowns, Tim Cook says
03:15 2018-01-19

iPhone owners will be able to disable a feature that slows down their mobiles as their batteries age, Apple’s chief executive has said. Tim Cook said a forthcoming update to iOS will allow users to turn off the slowdown feature, after its emergence led to dozens of lawsuits and a probe from French authorities. Apple …

These Are the Only Two Body Parts That Don’t Stop Growing
11:40 2018-01-18

After your parents have ticked off the last mark on your childhood growth chart, after you’ve stopped outgrowing shoes, and when the horrors of puberty are a distant memory, you may think it’s safe to claim that you’ve “stopped growing.” But there are two significant parts of your body that apparently didn’t get the memo. …

Apple Seeds Sixth Beta of iOS 11.2.5 to Developers and Public Beta Testers
09:45 2018-01-18

Apple today seeded the sixth beta of an upcoming iOS 11.2.5 update to developers, one week after seeding the fifth beta and a little over a week after releasing iOS 11.2.2, an update designed to mitigate a serious hardware-based vulnerability called “Spectre.” Registered developers can download the iOS 11.2.5 beta from Apple’s Developer Center or …