Apple has introduced its Self Service Repair program, allowing iPhone and Mac users to do common repairs at home. The company will sell genuine Apple replacement parts and tools along with instruction manuals for users to repair products at home rather than relying on third-party repair shops. The program will...
US-based film studio Miramax is suing film director Quentin Tarantino over his plans to release seven non-fungible tokens (NFTs) based on his 1994 movie Pulp Fiction. At the NFT NYC conference, Tarantino announced that he would release seven unreleased scenes from an earlier script of the cult classic, as well...
Starting Christmas Day, Los Angeles’s iconic Staples Center, home to the NBA’s Lakers and Clippers, the NHL’s Kings, and the WNBA’s Sparks, will be known as Crypto.com Arena. Singapore-based cryptocurrency platform Crypto.com is reportedly paying $700 million for the naming rights to the building...
Last week, Germany-based eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) vehicle manufacturer Volocopter completed South Korea’s first crewed air taxi flight. The two-seater eVTOL, 2X, launched from Gimpo International Airport in Seoul, traversing 1.8 miles (2.9 km) in 5 minutes at an altitude of 164 feet (50m). The...
The largest-yet clinical study into psilocybin (the hallucinogenic ingredient in magic mushrooms), found that the psychedelic drug is highly effective in reducing symptoms in people with treatment-resistant depression. In the 233-patient study conducted across North America and Europe, Compass Pathways found that patients who received the highest dose, 25mg dose...
Recent satellite photos from Colorado-based Maxar Technologies show that China has built mock-ups of U.S. Navy ships in the Taklamakan desert in Xinjiang, northwest China. The images, dated from Sunday, reveal the outline of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier and destroyer sitting on a railway track in the...
