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There are a lot of exciting things happening in space this year — here’s what to look forward to From a lunar return to Jupiter moons — everything you need to know Everyone’s going to the Moon Getting a rocket into orbit around Earth is a technical achievement, but it’s only equivalent to a half a day’s drive straight up. Fifty years after the last person stood on Earth’s closest neighbor, 2022 will see a crowded slate of lunar missions....

There’s a multibillion-dollar market for your phone’s location data A huge but little-known industry has cropped up around monetizing people’s movements How the data leaves your phone Most times, the location data pipeline starts off in your hands, when an app sends a notification asking for permission to access your location data. Apps have all kinds of reasons for using your location. Map apps need to know where you are in order to give you directions to where you’re going....

There’s a multibillion-dollar market for your phone’s location data A huge but little-known industry has cropped up around monetizing people’s movements How the data leaves your phone Most times, the location data pipeline starts off in your hands, when an app sends a notification asking for permission to access your location data. Apps have all kinds of reasons for using your location. Map apps need to know where you are in order to give you directions to where you’re going....

There’s a tiny star spraying antimatter all over the Milky Way — should we be worried? NASA thinks this pulsar might be leaking answers to the universe’s origin Annihilation Here’s where we run into problems. Matter and antimatter don’t get along. When, for example, a quark or a particle collides with their respective antiquark or antiparticle, a process calledannihilationoccurs. As Big Think’s Ethan Siegelput it: The big mystery surrounding the origin of the universe involves trying to figure out how we got from the moments after the Big Bang, where most physicists assume matter and antimatter formed in equal amounts, to nearly 14 billion years later where99....

There’s something fishy about Facebook’s pivot on facial recognition Thanks for nothing, Meta Old things first The name change, the paradigm change, the whole “Metaverse” thing… it’s all part of a shift towards something more esoteric. Facebook cut its teeth imagining the future. Where everyone else saw a way to rate college women on there appearances, Mark Zuckerberg saw a way to… rate everyone on their appearances. And, along the way, he stumbled into creating the modern social network....