Technology News for Saturday 10th May 2025

1. The Hell's Kitchen room that monitors every subway train in New York

Two weeks earlier, he'd sent a threatening letter to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the subway — the sort of dubious correspondence that has become a hallmark of the second Trump administration. The letter ...

2. Quicker and more social: indoor golf simulators offer way into game for women and young players

Visit one of the near-200 golf simulator venues around Australia and the differences between this new kind of sporting venue and a traditional club are numerous. There's the technology, tracking swing biomechanics and ball rotation hundreds of times a ...

3. Is alchemy real? Physicists turn lead into gold using the Large Hadron Collider

CERN physicists created gold atoms by smashing lead ions together at near-light speed inside the Large Hadron Collider. · The transmutation occurs when lead nuclei lose three protons, transforming into gold, but the resulting atoms last only about a ...

4. Failed Soviet Venus lander Kosmos 482 crashes to Earth after 53 years in orbit

A failed Soviet Venus lander's long space odyssey has come to an end. The Kosmos 482 probe crashed to Earth today (May 10) after circling our planet for more than five decades. Reentry occurred at 2:24 a.m. ET (0624 GMT or 9:24 a.m. Moscow time) over ...