Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii have made a startling finding: a distant exoplanet with a tail hundreds of thousands of miles long. Planet WASP-69 b is located 164 light-years away, and as it orbit, it is followed by a stream of escaping gas that forms a tail — making it look a little like a comet. The planet is a type called ahot Jupiter, meaning it is a large gas giant that orbits very close to its star....

For a lot of us,password securityis the ultimate case of procrastination: We know we need to use stronger, unique passwords, yet all too often we end up booting the problem as a job for another day. Instead of trying to convince us for the 1,000th time that“123456” is not a safe password, Apple, Google and Microsoft have decided to try something different. Today, the three tech giants have announced plans to work on a common sign-in standard created by the FIDO Alliance and World Wide Web Consortium....

Black Ops 6 and Warzone Season 3 Battle Pass skins and weapons Season 3 of Black Ops 6and Warzone brings a bumper Battle Pass full of skins and weapons to unlock, many of which are inspired by Verdansk. While every Call of Duty update is packed with content,Season 3is an especially big moment for the series. Not only does it bring back the legendaryVerdanskand introduce thenew Shattered Veil Zombies map, but it also comes with a ton ofweapon buffs and nerfs....

Outside of Soundcloud rappers and professional wrestlers like the lateBam Bam Bigelow, head tattoos aren’t something most of us encounter on a regular basis. If researchers at Austria’s Graz University of Technology and a couple of other European research labs have their way, that could all be about to change. Head tattoos may become the norm — mind-reading, electrode-sporting head tattoos. And, like the old joke about the waiter and the fly in the man’s soup, we’re all going to want them....

For years, the Seattle-based homebrew startupPicoBrewhas attempted to revolutionize the experience of crafting beer from the comfort of your own home. With its countertop brew machine dubbed the Pico, anyone willing to shell out $800 for a kitchen appliance could concoct fresh beer similar to the way traditional homebrewers do. After bringing this innovative homebrew tech to the masses, PicoBrew one-upped themselves at CES 2017 by unveiling what it is calling theFreeStyle PicoPak....

The first and only expansion forCyberpunk 2077has far more than just a new area and missions to fill your time.Phantom Libertyis part of the 2.0 update that almost completely overhauls the systems introduced in the base game to be more in line with the original vision, It also adds new mechanics to flesh out the experience even further.Once you start the expansion, the first thing you will probably notice is the completely revamped skill system, which now includes a brand new tree called the Relic tree....

Dell has unveiled a whole host of discounts across its various hardware ranges in celebration of Memorial Day. While you can pick up a number of older Inspiron laptops and desktops at cut rates, some of the best deals available are for some of our favorite XPS notebooks, which not only have discounts off their standard price, but have additional coupon codes you can use to bring the cost down even further....

During an earnings report for shareholders, Disney CEO Bob Iger revealed when the company plans to release some of its most anticipated new shows, as well as when the popular seriesThe Mandalorianwill return fora second seasonon the streaming service. Marvel’s first Disney+ series,The Falcon & The Winter Soldier, will premiere in August, and will be followed by season 2 ofThe Mandalorianin October. Marvel’sWandaVisionseries will then debut in December. The exact premiere dates for each season weren’t announced, but the month of release is more information than Disney had previously revealed about the shows....

Every Galar Pokemon in Pokemon Go Trainers lamenting the lack of Galar representation inPokemon Gogot good news with the announcement of the latest season, as it will focus on creatures from Galar, Paldea, andHisui. The Delightful Days seasonwill partially focus on Pokemon and mechanics from theSword & Shieldera, such as Dynamax and Gigantamax. Starting with the Go Fest 2025 events,Niantic’s gamewill introduce Crowned Sword Zacian and Crowned Shield Zamazenta, along with many others....

Gmail users on Android are about to get a much cleaner experience. Google has begun rolling out a redesign of the Gmail app to its Android users, and it brings the app much more in line with other Google products. The update includes a range of tweaks to the Gmail for Android app. For example, there is the new Google Sans font throughout the app, as well as a new search bar at the top of the app that replaces the older red menu bar....

House of the Dragon keeps reminding us of Game of Thrones’ most unforgivable mistake House of the Dragon continues to remind fans of the most unforgivable mistake Game of Thrones committed. The plot ofHouse of the Dragon Season 2is mainly centered around the bloodyTargaryen civil war. However, a few scenes have reminded fans of worst mistakeGame of Thronesever committed. At the end ofSeason 1,Viserys Targaryenwarned his daughter,Rhaenyra, about the prophecy named A Song of Ice and Fire....

Streaming on Twitchhas been a hobby of mine for a while, and it’s probably the single most important thing convincing me to stick with my RTX 3060 Ti, thanks to two key technologies that Nvidia has made: NVENC and Nvidia Broadcast. The RTX 3060 Ti is one of thebest graphics cardson its own, but it’s these two features that have made the difference for me. These aren’t crucial to my streaming experience, but the quality of life improvements these two features provide make it difficult for me to even think about switching back to AMD graphics....

Ikea’sSymfonisk Picture Frame speakeris a cool concept, with one really obvious drawback: Despite being called a “picture frame” speaker, it doesn’t actually work as a picture frame at all — unless you consider Ikea’s limited number of pre-printed graphic speaker grilles to be pictures. There’s no way to place your own art on the front of the speaker, and even if you could, it would ruin the speaker’s acoustics unless it were printed on the same kind of acoustically-transparent fabric that Ikea uses for its own covers....