Fornay Tech Blog

Google is turning to nuclear energy to help power its AI drive. On Monday, the company said it will partner with the startup Kairos Power to build seven small nuclear reactors in the US. The deal targets adding 500 megawatts of nuclear power from the small modular reactors (SMRs) by the decade’s end. The first … Read more

If you want to keep your Android device running smoothly, you need to make sure you’re taking care of it. It needs routine maintenance, checkups, and more to stay in good running condition.  To start, you should give the exterior of your phone a good clean, since you’re likely putting it close to your face every day. Dust, … Read more

Satanic Panic is having a resurgence in pop culture (see: Eddie Munson in Stranger Things), but did it ever really leave? You can certainly feel its lingering effects whenever social media is weaponized to spread misinformation. Hysteria! creator Matthew Scott Kane aimed to infuse that spirit into his new Peacock series; it’s set in a small … Read more

David Stuckenberg, cofounder and chief operations officer at Genesis Systems, explains that the WaterCube uses proprietary liquid and solid sorbents—materials that absorb water—that essentially “form a handshake with the water in the air.” The machine then heats these materials to extract the water. Atmospheric water generators typically require a substantial amount of energy to run, … Read more

Samsung is always updating the art available on The Frame TV — its television that, when off, displays a piece of artwork and blends seamlessly into your decor. But the images available to display is primarily art that belongs in the public domain, which is art that is free to use because the creator has … Read more

The rumors are true, the Destiny franchise is heading to mobile devices soon. Destiny: Rising is a new free-to-play mobile sci-fi RPG shooter that includes a number of playable hero characters, a shared world, and PvE and PvP modes all set in Bungie’s Destiny universe. China-based NetEase Games has developed Destiny: Rising, after announcing a … Read more

We’re almost at the end of 2024, a year that will go down as having seen some of the biggest, most damaging data breaches in recent history. And just when you think that some of these hacks can’t get any worse, they do. From huge stores of customers’ personal information getting scraped, stolen and posted … Read more

The Meta Quest 3S has been a wonderful escape from the clunkiness of life brought about by the aftermath of Hurricane Helene for me. Being able to literally jump into another world by popping a headset on during the day has been more than just mood-changing for me, it’s been an important part of recovery … Read more

Update, October 14, 2024 (01:47 PM ET): No, it’s not just you. Facebook appears to currently be experiencing a widespread outage. You can try your luck at some of the troubleshooting tips below, but given the scale it looks like we’re dealing with here, you may just need to wait for Facebook engineers to sort … Read more

schwit1 writes: Chinese scientists have mounted what they say is the world’s first effective attack on a widely used encryption method using a quantum computer. The breakthrough poses a “real and substantial threat” to the long-standing password-protection mechanism employed across critical sectors, including banking and the military, according to the researchers. Despite the slow progress … Read more