Yes, there’s a full moon tonight, but it won’t be pink
If you’re an aspiring skywatcher looking for a good reason to stay up past your bedtime and gaze into the cosmos, I have good news: …
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Amazon Music’s free ad-supported tier is now available for all Alexa users
Amazon on Thursday announced that everyone with an Alexa-enabled device can now listen to music for free. The free tier is ad-supported, as Billboard’s report …
Watch a brave orangutan attempt to fight off the humans destroying his home
For a species that fancies itself superior to anything else on the planet, we humans sure have done a lot of messed up stuff to …
This is the last photo Israel’s Beresheet lunar lander captured before it was smashed into oblivion
Last week’s attempted lunar lander by SpaceIL’s Beresheet spacecraft didn’t quite go as planned. Actually, that’s putting it mildly; it totally crashed. Nevertheless, the privately …
The Mueller report is the source of a hilarious meme now that it’s available to the public
Some of you have been waiting a long time for this one to come out, but it’s finally out there, The Mueller Report is available …
We finally know what sharks are afraid of
If you were given a few seconds to name a sea creature you wouldn’t want to run into during a swim on the beach there’s …
A backpack with a flexible screen? Sure, Sony, why not
The race among consumer electronics giants to develop all manner of screens that flex and fold — and to attach them to phones, tablets and …
New study shows California has an earthquake every three minutes
What did you do in the last three minutes? Maybe you took a sip from a water bottle or gave your dog a rub on …
See every company that Disney owns collected in a single, enormous map
Have you ever taken a step back and really thought about just how staggeringly large Disney has become? When I was young, all that “Disney” …
Someone hacked The Weather Channel
We live in an age where companies suffer data breaches and hacks of various types on a disturbingly regular basis. Credit card companies, social networks, …
Facebook now says ‘millions’ of Instagram passwords were exposed, not ‘tens of thousands’
Well, that’s a heck of a revision. Back in March, as part of a disclosure about Facebook having learned that some user passwords were being …
A robot that kind of looks like Wall-E’s big brother helped save Notre Dame
Notre Dame was reportedly only about 15 to 30 minutes away from a fire completely destroying the historic cathedral earlier this week when Paris firefighters …
Student used a ‘USB Killer’ to destroy $58,000 worth of computers at his old college
In a rather bizarre tale, a former MBA student who attended the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York recently destroyed nearly 70 college-owned …
NASA just sent robotic ‘bees’ to the International Space Station
Do robots have a place in the future of crewed space missions? NASA thinks so, and it’s not the only one. Late last year the …
New ISS astronaut assignments mean Christina Koch will break a huge NASA record
A few weeks back, NASA had anticipated conducting the first all-female spacewalk with astronauts Christina Koch and Anne McClaine on the International Space Station. Unfortunately, …
Apple’s got a credit card, and now T-Mobile is launching a checking account
Tech companies and telcos, all of a sudden it seems, have decided to start making money by getting into, well, money. The same way Apple …
The 12 Marvel movies you need to see to make the most of ‘Avengers: Endgame’ next week
We only have about a week to go until Avengers: Endgame hits theaters — April 26th is the official launch date for the film, but …
Watch a massive fireball light up the sky over the East Coast
Not all meteor sightings are create equal. Seeing any space rock streaking across the night sky is pretty darn cool, but some of them put …
A fossil hunter is selling a baby T-rex on eBay, and scientists are livid
One of the great things about the world of science is that researchers in most fields tend to be incredibly open with their work. Many …
T-Mobile and Comcast are now working together to fight robocalls
The fight against the barrage of spam calls and robocalls continues to pick up steam, as a pair of rival carriers announced today that they’re …
NASA plans to send astronauts to the Moon’s South Pole in five years
NASA is moving forward with plans to send a crewed mission to the lunar surface by 2024, a goal that will be impossible to achieve …
China is sending teens to the desert to simulate life on Mars
Mars is a mostly dry, dusty, barren place. Earth, our big blue-green marble of a planet, has a few places like that too, which makes …
Facebook is developing its own Alexa-like voice assistant that nobody asked for
Facebook is continuing to build out new technology that promises to extend its reach and capabilities well beyond the main blue app with its simple, …
Verizon just made it more expensive to activate or upgrade a phone in-store
Verizon appears to be incentivizing consumers to make purchases online rather than at one of its brick-and-mortar retail stores, as CNET reports that the mobile …
All the new spoilers from Marvel’s brand new ‘Avengers: Endgame’ commercials that you might have missed
Tuesday was a huge day for Avengers fans, and not just because a certain clip featuring never before seen Avengers: Endgame footage leaked on social …
Earth may have been struck by an interstellar meteor way back in 2014
It was late 2017 when the astronomy world was buzzing over what appeared to be the first-ever interstellar visitor observed by mankind. It was a …
NASA’s TESS exoplanet hunter found its first Earth-size planet, but you wouldn’t want to visit
NASA’s TESS exoplanet hunting telescope has been on the job for less than a year, but it’s already racking up some impressive discoveries. Following the …
Hackers unleashed 40 million cyberattacks on Ecuador after Julian Assange’s arrest
Julian Assange’s arrest at the end of last week by British officials who finally snatched him at the London embassy in Ecuador where he’d been …
Nearby exoplanet may have the potential to support life
Finding planets outside of our solar system is a challenge, and determining the size, composition, and surface conditions of such planets is more difficult still. …
Netflix just added another 10 million subscribers, will experiment with top 10 lists
Netflix is just out with its earnings results covering the first three months of the year, and a key highlight of the companion shareholder letter …
