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After Months of Gibberish, Voyager 1 Is Communicating Well Again

After Months of Gibberish, Voyager 1 Is Communicating Well Again NASA scientists spent months coaxing the 46-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft back into healthy communication By Meghan Bartels NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is depicted in this artist’s concept traveling through interstellar…

Amazon ends California drone deliveries

Amazon confirmed it is ending Prime Air drone delivery operations in Lockeford, California. The Central California town of 3,500 was the company’s second U.S. drone delivery site, after College Station, Texas. Operations were announced in June 2022. The retail giant…

Substack rival Ghost confirms it will join the fediverse in 2024

Ghost, an open-source rival to Substack’s newsletter platform, has confirmed it will this year officially join the fediverse — or the open social network of interconnected servers that includes apps like Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Flipboard and, more recently, Instagram Threads, among others. Last…

Drug residue can be detected in fingerprints left at crime scenes

A researcher uses a chemical to extract drug residue from fingerprints Loughborough University Forensic scientists have developed a new technique that can detect drug and explosive residue on fingerprint samples from crime scenes. “That information, the presence of drug particles,…