Wired writes: Giants are difficult to make. Remember all those classic b-movies featuring giant insects, like THEM!, The Deadly Mantis, and Earth vs. the Spider? Mercifully for us, arthropods of city-destroying size could never exist. They would not be able to obtain enough oxygen to survive, and, without major modifications to their bodies, would collapse under their own weight. (There were giant arthropods over 300 million years ago, but even they were not of horror-movie size. Unless you’re deathly afraid of huge millipedes, anyway.) The same goes for vertebrates. The elephant-sized, bloodthirsty bunnies from Night of the Lepus would require changes in proportion to cope with the different stresses and strains that come with increased body size. There are constraints that limit how big organisms can get and what shape they can take as they get bigger.
The supermassive black hole is 40 million times as massive as the sun and powers a quasar that existed 700 million years after the Big Bang.
Vision Pro is here and it’s a surprisingly capable device. Apple has also loaded the headset with a ton of options and features that aren’t obvious at first glance.
Apple announced that its Major League Soccer Season Pass (through Apple TV) will include new immersive video content covering the 2023 playoffs. Apple TV is the exclusive provider of online Major League Soccer broadcasts via the MLS Season Pass subscription.
