A few years ago, Google announced it was . Instead, Google said it was going all-in on “Chat,” which is the branding it chose for Rich Communication Services (RCS) messaging. That decision is finally starting to pay off with news that AT&T has agreed to . It joins T-Mobile in the Google partnership, leaving Verizon as the lone holdout. RCS is a more advanced replacement for standard SMS text messages. The features are more akin to Apple’s iMessage, but it works on Android phones. If there were any other viable smartphone platforms, they could also implement RCS, which is an open standard.
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The universe is about 13.8 billion years, give or take. For most of that time, the whole of existence has looked similar to the way it looks now, just not quite as big. However, there was a time when there was no starlight to illuminate the infinite darkness of space. Now, scientists believe they’ve pinpointed when that changed. According to a team from University College London and the University of Cambridge, “cosmic dawn” . Based on current theories, the universe after the Big Bang was uniform and so dense that it wasn’t even transparent to radiation — this is sometimes called the “dark ages.
Microsoft’s Windows 11 unveil has quickly devolved into a confused mess regarding which CPUs will and won’t be supported under the new operating system. While I on this Friday, new information from both Microsoft and end-users has shed a bit of light on a confusing topic. Here’s what we know so far: TPM 2.0 Support Is Not the Only Variable in Play Simply having TPM 2.0 support in your system does not appear to be sufficient to install Windows 11. Microsoft has to PCWorld that machines like the Surface Studio 2 ($3,499 and up) — which isn’t quite three years old and supports TPM 2.0 according to Microsoft’s own spec sheets — will not support Windows 11.
Scientists have announced that a fossil discovered and hidden away 85 years ago may represent humanity’s closest known relative on our ancestral family tree. The skull, dubbed “Dragon Man” for the Dragon River near where it was discovered, is thought to be more closely related to humans than Neanderthals, who are typically considered our closest known relative. According to scientists, this skull (shown above) displays a mixture of features common to Neanderthal and Homo sapiens. If I’m being honest, it just looks like a Neanderthal skull to me. The prominent brow ridge is an easy distinction between Neanderthals and ourselves, but I’m not much good at subtle differences in bone morphology.
The aging Hubble Space Telescope is still in safe mode after an apparent hardware failure on June 13th. NASA it would be a quick changeover to backup hardware, but the swapping in replacement hardware has not solved the problem. The team is still , but it’s going to take a lot more troubleshooting to track down the glitch. Hubble was designed with redundancy in mind, but many of its parts are getting on in years. While service missions following the original launch have upgraded its hardware, many of the core components are still based on decades-old technology. For example, the payload computer that appeared to be the original culprit is a Standard Spacecraft Computer-1 (NSSC-1) from the 1980s.
As part of its overall Windows 11 push, Microsoft is partnering with Amazon to make its app store available for Windows devices. It’s a smart move for Microsoft. Windows x86 users will be able to buy Amazon mobile apps and run them via Intel Bridge technology. ARM and AMD-based systems will still be able to take advantage of the feature, and we assume (though this has not been confirmed) that Windows on ARM users who download apps from Amazon through the Microsoft Store will receive native binaries. This is an interesting move for Microsoft with some clear analogs in mobile.
Microsoft unveiled Windows 11 on Thursday, but it didn’t answer a lot of low-level questions about the operating system or why it changed the minimum system requirements. Said requirements are trivial except for one thing: Windows 11 requires TPM 2.0 support — unless it requires TPM 1.2 instead. The company has officially disclosed two different statements on that subject. According to the Windows 11 minimum specifications, PCs running Windows 11 must have a TPM 2.0 module installed. Click to enlarge. There’s not a lot of ambiguity in that statement. to CRN, however, Microsoft has said that TPM 1.2 is a “hard floor” for installing Windows 11, while TPM 2.0 is a “soft floor.
