To casual soccer viewers, the game may look like it always has—same green field, 22 players, a referee, and the familiar rhythm of play unfolding over 90 minutes. The changes are only visible if you look beneath the familiar surface. What appears to be a traditional match is now supported by layers of tracking systems,…
A New York City housing board has approved a key pledge made by Mayor Zohran Mamdani to freeze rents for about one million regulated apartments. The result of the vote on Thursday was greeted with cheers and whistles from hundreds of people in Manhattan as the Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) approved a freeze on both…
Slow Gods by Claire North is the New Scientist Book Club’s read for July This is the story of the supernova event known as Lhonoja. By the end of it, several planets will have burned, a couple of civilisations will have fallen, and I will have spoken to an entity some consider a god, and…
A supernova threatens a civilisation in Claire North’s Slow Gods Shutterstock/Martin Capek When I decided to write a space opera, I wanted to start with a supernova. There is no force in the universe like it, either in scale or destructive power – but though it is irrefutably dramatic, it’s also something you can see…
Photograph: Ryan Waniata Photograph: Ryan Waniata Photograph: Ryan Waniata Save to wishlist Save to wishlist Samsung S90F QD-OLED TV Our TV reviewers call this Samsung QD-OLED TV the best option for gaming. If your TV spends most of its time plugged into a console, you’ll be blown away by this one. It has all the…
Every Prime Day, I find myself surprised by the random categories that seem to be prominently featured. You always expect a headphone deal or some other discounted tech. But you might not anticipate seeing heavily discounted coolers. I’m the lead tester for our guide to the Best Coolers, which means my entire apartment would be…
Quantris is a quantum spin on a classic game Quantum Native The blocks keep falling. A pale yellow square awkwardly lands on a green block shaped like the letter “z”. Next to them stands a pillar made of smaller turquoise blocks. We’ve all seen Tetris, you can probably picture it. But there is a strange…
Asian stock markets fell sharply on Friday, led by a sell-off in technology firms as investors worried that recent jumps in share prices had gone too far. Trading on South Korea’s Kospi was temporarily halted as an 8% fall in the benchmark index triggered a mechanism intended to curb panic selling. The index closed 5.8%…
A liner along the bottom of the Reflecting Pool in Washington DC was cut with a sharp knife or razor earlier this month, an official at the National Park Service has said. Frank Lands, deputy director of operations for the park service, said in a court filing on Thursday that US Park Police had responded…
After two major earthquakes hit Venezuela on Wednesday, aerial footage has revealed the destruction wrought in the coastal city of La Guaira. Multi-storey buildings have collapsed across the city, which is situated to the north of Venezuela’s capital, Caracas. More on this story