Reid last week Vilen, an elite gamer using the descriptor”Chicago” in rocket league, the popular vehicular soccer game, is facing a strange and unsettling new adversary. At first, the player appeared to be a rookie, hesitantly and clumsily moving the rocket vehicle. They then caught and perfectly balanced the ball on the hood of their...

“It’s pretty ingenious, because the minute the ad disappears, your attack stops, which means you won’t be easy to find,” Habibie explains. The scale of this was colossal: in June 2022, at the peak of the group’s activity, it was making 12 billion ad requests per day. Human Security reports that the attack primarily affected...

People are complex machines with moving parts that flex, squish, stretch, flow, shake, and thrash. Scientists are now tapping into these energy sources to solve the common problem of sensors, wearables, and implanted medical devices—the dreaded dead battery. Self-powered devices, by design, could be the solution, and researchers have found that the human body itself...

In past I took the phone from my fiancée about four times a week. The first few were when we visited The Met Cloisters in New York. I love taking pictures, so I borrowed her Pixel phone to capture some beautiful scenes. Next time we decided to order delicious chicken wings in the middle of...