I’ve been fortunate enough to catch several northern lights displays in just a few years, including from my own backyard in Nottingham, U.K. (thank you Gannon Storm 2024). As an aurora reporter, one of the most common questions I get asked is, “Where’s the best place to see them?”
Here’s what I tell everyone: For your best chance, you’ll want to head above the…
Astrophotographer spies an ancient supernova remnant shining in the wing of a cosmic swan (photo)
November 18, 2025
Dutch astrophotographer Cornelis van Zuilen combined 35 hours of telescopic data to create an incandescent view of the Eastern Veil Nebula shining 2,100 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus.
Van Zuilen’s nebula image reveals breathtaking detail in these…
How the sun threatens your nuts: Inside the $100 million solar storm peanut problem
November 18, 2025
With solar activity likely to remain elevated for the next couple of years, more powerful geomagnetic storm events are possible. The northern lights may grab the headlines, but it’s the invisible GPS turbulence that can disrupt our technological world and determine the…
Luminal raises $5.3 million to build a better GPU code framework
November 18, 2025
Three years ago, Luminal co-founder Joe Fioti was working on chip design at Intel when he came to a realization. While he was working on making the best chips he could, the more important bottleneck was in software.
“You can make the best hardware on earth, but if it’s hard for developers to use, they’re just not going to use it,” he told me.
Now, he’s started a…
MCP AI agent security startup Runlayer launches with 8 unicorns, $11M from Khosla’s Keith Rabois and Felicis
November 18, 2025
On Monday, a new Model Context Protocol security startup called Runlayer launched out of stealth with $11 million in seed funding from Khosla Ventures’ Keith Rabois and Felicis.
It was created by third-time founder Andrew Berman (previous companies: baby-monitor maker…
South Korea’s major defense giants have amassed roughly $69 billion in order backlogs as of late 2024, according to media reports. Seoul is also accelerating investment in advanced weapons systems and expanding its defense ties, particularly with Europe. With the new…
This Canon camera feature takes a photo before you've even pressed the shutter button! Now that's what I call magic
November 18, 2025
Even the best professional photographers can miss a shot sometimes. You can be in the right place, at the right time, and ready with your camera and lens to take that shot of your action subject – only to be a fraction too slow with the shutter button!
What you need is a clever camera setting that can help you get the shot quicker than your mind and shooting finger allows.
The often-overlooked…
Are you born with a photographer’s eye or is it something you develop from years of experience? Blowing my own trumpet, I personally feel like I’ve always had a half-decent eye for this stuff, whereas I’ve met many amateur photographers on workshops who feel it’s an…
Taken with a Sony A7RV and 90mm macro lens, this extraordinary photo captures a lizard’s first breath
November 18, 2025
The winners of the 2025 British Photography Awards (BPA) have been announced, and one image captures a moment so fleeting, so intimate, that it seems almost miraculous the photographer was there to witness it at all. The photograph shows a Sakishima Grass Lizard taking its…
In a bid to get it above the $1.00/share NASDAQ-required minimum, fledgling EV brand Polestar ($PSNY) is rumored to be considering a 1:30 reverse stock split that could see the per-share price rocket up to nearly $16.
Geely-owned Volvo spinoff Polestar is working as hard as Tesla to prove that stock prices have little or nothing to do with traditional business fundamentals in 2025.
That’s…
