Russia will be ready to resume Soyuz flights soon, NASA says
It’s only been a couple of weeks since Russia’s Soyuz rocket launch towards the International Space Station ended abruptly due to an unspecified failure, sending …
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The lawyer who helped Hulk Hogan bankrupt Gawker is coming for Yelp now
A high-profile lawyer whose clients have included wrestler Hulk Hogan as well as President Trump wants the U.S. Supreme Court to agree to hear a …
Tall people are more likely to get cancer because there’s just more stuff in them
There are a lot of things we all know we can do to curb our risk of getting cancer. Avoiding tobacco products is high on …
McDonald’s will reboot its breakfast menu with all-new ‘Triple Stacks’ sandwiches
McDonald’s has long been the king of fast food breakfast, but there’s no denying that its menu has grown a wee bit stale over the …
NASA just released new images of that big square iceberg, and it’s just as strange as before
When NASA released a picture of an incredibly strange-looking iceberg that it had photographed during a survey flight over Antarctica I’m not sure they expected …
Google is making it easier to control your private data and search history
Google has been harshly scrutinized over the way that it handles user data for years. Not only does Google collect an unfathomable amount of data …
Target’s best Black Friday deal might be free 2-day shipping with no strings attached
Shopping at Target might be more comfortable than ever this holiday season, as the retailer announced a bunch of new delivery and order pick up …
Behold, the Misfit Vapor 2 – a $249 touchscreen watch with NFC and built-in GPS
The Misfit wearables brand is hoping the second time is the charm. Last year, the first Misfit Vapor touchscreen smartwatch was plagued with a host …
Shipwreck dating back 2,400 years found at the bottom of the Black Sea
Searching for relics from thousands of years ago is usually done by poking around archeological dig sites, with researchers hoping against hope that manmade trinkets …
Uber CEO says he wants ‘flying burgers’ to be a thing
Here’s how ambitious Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has gotten, ahead of the possibility that his ride-hailing company could IPO next year at a valuation of as …
NASA spies big space bubbles forming around newborn stars
NASA’s Hubble telescope might still be snapping out of a gyroscope-induced funk, but the space agency’s other powerful space-gazing lenses are still working just fine. …
Going organic might actually help curb cancer risk, study finds
We all know by now that fruits and vegetables treated with chemicals probably aren’t the best for us, but can going on a “clean” organic …
Charter’s latest price hikes could end up costing you an extra $90 a year
All cable companies have a way of getting under our skin, but Charter might be the best in the business. On Monday, the Asheville Citizen …
Top Apple insider hints at first refresh of the iPad mini in years, along with new AirPods and AirPower
Ahead of Apple’s next media event in New York set for Tuesday, we were already anticipating big announcements to include two brand new iPad Pro …
There might maybe possibly be life left on Mars after all, maybe
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Scientists studying Mars think there might be life lurking on the Red Planet but can’t prove it …
NASA thinks it fixed the Hubble’s gyroscope issue, but still isn’t sure what went wrong
NASA’s Hubble has been experiencing a bit of unexpected downtime lately. The aging space telescope was forced to enter a default “safe mode” state when …
A big chunk of the Moon which became a lunar meteorite just sold for over $600,000
Getting your hands on a piece of the Moon is pretty darn difficult for most of us. Some lunar missions have brought samples back from …
Another Facebook exec heads for the door – this time it’s Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe
Another Facebook executive is moving on. This year has seen the departure from Facebook of several key leaders like the founders of Instagram and the …
This giant rectangular iceberg looks totally out of place in Antarctica
Humans tend to love right angles, but nature doesn’t produce them on its own all that often. Some minerals and rock formations go square all …
With content costs soaring, Netflix plans to raise $2 billion in debt
With each passing month, Netflix continues to pump out new content at breakneck speed. At this pace, it’s literally impossible to keep abreast of and …
Amazon and Google make nine of the ten most popular smart speaker models in the US
If you ranked the most popular smart speaker models in the US based on the tech companies that make them, you get a list dominated …
NASA’s incredible water system dumps 450,000 gallons in about a minute
Once a rocket leaves the launch pad, all eyes turn skyward, but the technology that keeps launch sites working at their peak efficiency is pretty …
A 72-year-old man was stoned to death by a group of insane monkeys and police don’t know what to do
The monkeys at your local zoo might look like a playful bunch, but a village in northern India is being harassed by primates that are …
Scientists spot bizarre ‘headless chicken monster’ lurking near the ocean floor
If you have even a casual interest in science or nature you probably already know that the animals lurking deep within Earth’s oceans tend to …
Google apologizes for YouTube TV outage with a week of free service
Last Tuesday, YouTube and all of its related services (YouTube Music, YouTube TV) went offline for over an hour. For many of us, it was …
Astronomers spot the youngest known pulsar ever, and boy is it pretty
Many of the objects NASA and other scientific bodies choose to study in space are incredibly old, but that’s not the case with Kes 75. …
If ads are so important to Facebook, why does it suck this bad at them?
Facebook is the social media mega-titan that it is partly because it has such a strong money-making operation underneath the whole thing that has powered …
NASA wants you to make stuff it can send to the Moon
As we’ve known for several months now, NASA is headed back to the Moon. The administration will be sending all manner of instruments to the …
Newfound species of ancient piranha-like fish would have made a meal of you, very slowly
It goes without saying that you could find some pretty dangerous animals if you were to travel back in time tens of millions of years …
New study says not exercising is pretty much the worst thing you can possibly do
It’s no secret that there are a lot of things that can potentially impact your overall health. What food you eat, what habits you adopt …
