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 …
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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 …
How to enable Alexa’s whisper mode, rolling out now for Echo devices
Amazon announced over a dozen brand new products last month at its hardware event in Seattle, such as the Echo Sub, Echo Link, Echo Auto, …
A big chunk of space junk came crashing down in California, and it’s just been identified
When a farmer in Hanford, California took a casual stroll out to his walnut orchard recently, the last thing he expected to find was a …
Virtual reality experience forces people to lose their jobs and homes, boosts empathy
Reading a news story about an increase in the homeless population might make you feel sad for a moment but if we’re all being honest …
Last winter’s flu season was even more deadly than you can imagine
For many people, flu season is little more than annoyance, but every single year thousands of people die from whatever strain of the disease is …
The T Rex’s tiny baby arms might have been way more useful than they seem
Running into a Tyrannosaurus rex in the wild would have been a truly frightening thing for just about any animal that roamed the earth between …
As if things weren’t bad enough, MoviePass’ parent company is now under investigation for fraud
The headlines coming out of the struggling movie subscription service MoviePass in recent months have been a confusing assortment of tweaks to its plan terms, …
China wants to put a big fake moon in orbit to reflect sunlight back down at night
The Moon is great, but apparently it’s just not enough for the city of Chengdu in China. Not satisfied with the meager light the Moon …
Apple sends out invites for iPad Pro event on October 30th
Even though we’re just a few weeks removed from Apple unveiling its 2018 iPhone lineup and the jaw-dropping Apple Watch Series 4, the company still …
YouTube now lets you browse on desktop while you watch videos in the Miniplayer
At long last, one of the YouTube mobile app’s best features is coming to desktop. This week, YouTube informed users that a new feature has …
Humans have found a way to kill the world’s largest living organism
Humans are already thought to be largely responsible for the almost complete extinction of massive mammals, simply because we can’t stop killing the big ones. …
Oops: Researchers say 3.7 billion-year-old ‘fossils’ are probably just rocks
Hunting for fossils is a difficult business in the first place, but the challenge is multiplied the farther back in time you’re searching. Finding bones …
Samsung acquires analytics startup Zhilabs to prepare for the coming 5G era
Samsung has made clear that it’s got a cash horde of more than $20 billion it wants to spend investing in businesses that will in …
Apple’s new privacy management tools throw epic shade at Facebook and Google
Tim Cook is a pretty straightforward guy. Dresses like your uncle. Avoids the flash of his predecessor. And he has a few key things he …
NASA is playing a ‘claw game’ on Mars, and it’s even more complex than your local arcade
Scoring a stuffed animal or small trinket from a classic claw game at your local arcade can leave you feeling frustrated and full of rage, …
Man’s death linked to consumption of squirrel brains
Hunting for your own food can be a rewarding and liberating thing, but knowing where to stop when preparing wild game for consumption is obviously …
