Airlines fear new 5G service will cause flight chaos

U.S. airline officials fear “catastrophic disruption” if AT&T and Verizon go ahead and switch on their new C-Band 5G networks this week. The airlines are concerned that interference from 5G cell towers could affect sensitive airplane safety instruments such as the altimeter, which is vital for low-visibility landings. In a letter obtained by Reuters sent…

NASA raises issue of dwindling astronaut numbers

As NASA looks toward expanding its crewed missions with launches to the moon in the next few years and ongoing trips to the International Space Station (ISS), the agency has voiced concerns over a possible lack of astronauts to help fulfill the missions. In a recently published report by NASA’s Office of Inspector General titled…

How Wordle and Wordle! teamed up for charity

Digital Trends may earn a commission when you buy through links on our site. Following the sudden explosion of love for Wordle in recent weeks, the browser-only availability of Josh Wardle’s free word game led to get-rich-quick developers coding similar efforts and sticking them in app stores. Apple recently removed from its own app store…

See the dramatic and beautiful flame nebula in Orion

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a spectacular pair of images showing the dramatic Flame Nebula as seen by a radio telescope. This nebula is located in the constellation of Orion, and it has a beautiful flame-like structure when seen in the radio wavelength. The image was taken with ESO’s Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX)…

Roborock S7 Max vs. Ecovac Deebot X1

CES 2022, an annual exposition of all things cutting-edge, brought big breakthroughs in many sectors of residential living — from developments in pet-monitoring devices to monolithic, multipoint routers. Don’t forget robot vacuums. Those much-loved sentient dust-busters that keep our domiciles near-spotless. Two robot vacuum companies that flexed hard at CES 2022 were Roborock and Ecovacs,…