Hundreds of thousands of asteroids in our Solar System were born from a few now-dead planets
It’s tempting to imagine that the asteroids that litter our Solar System have been there from the start, circling the Sun for ages while the …
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A massive object devastated Uranus a long time ago and it never fully recovered
Our Solar System is a pretty calm place these days, all things considered, but that wasn’t always the case. In the period when the planets …
Amazon Prime Day 2018 starts July 16th – here’s everything you need to know
A few days ago, Amazon UK mistakenly leaked a marketing image that revealed Prime Day 2018 would start on July 16th, a day after this …
Top government lawyer blames judge, CNN, and AT&T’s army of lawyers for court loss
The Department of Justice was handed a rare defeat in court when it tried to contest the AT&T Time Warner merger. The judge approved the …
Class-action lawsuit accuses Comcast of failing to prevent fraud
Comcast has grown its wireless reseller Xfinity Mobile at speed by leveraging its existing cable and internet customer base, but a class-action lawsuit spotted by DSL …
NASA’s Opportunity rover has been sitting silently in the dark Martian dust storm for three weeks
When you get caught in a storm here on Earth you just find shelter for a little while and let it pass, but things are …
PlayStation Vue increasing price of all plans by $5 at the end of July
Just days after AT&T announced that all of its DirecTV Now streaming packages would see their price bumped up by $5, Sony has shared eerily …
Forget Prime Day, Dell is kicking off its own ‘Black Friday in July’ sale
Amazon’s Prime Day 2018 event is en route, according to a recent leak, although Amazon is yet actually to announce it. But forget about all …
DirecTV Now gets a price hike so AT&T can stop losing so much money
DirecTV Now, AT&T’s cable-replacement streaming service, has been adding users like no tomorrow. Since launching in November 2016, it’s added over 1.5 million subscribers, making …
Watch live as NASA scientists hunt for meteorites in the Pacific Ocean
NASA loves looking for cool stuff in space, but every once in a while something from space ends up here on Earth. That was the …
Hawaii’s proposed sunscreen ban is expected to become law this week
Hawaii is known for its seemingly endless expanse of sunny beaches, so it’s obviously not the kind of place you’d want to find yourself without …
Feast your eyes on the very first image ever captured of a planet being born
Planet formation isn’t exactly the kind of thing that happens in the blink of an eye. New worlds form over extremely long stretches of time, …
Robots are coming for the stuntmen’s jobs next
It’s already a lame joke/terrifyingly possible dystopia that robots will have taken all our jobs by 2040, but we often assume that a handful of …
Watch this crazy shape-shifting drone transform in mid-air
When you think of a drone, you probably imagine a small machine with four propellers and a camera strapped to the bottom. That’s what most …
Comcast internet, cable, and phone services are down nationwide
Comcast residential and business customers from coast to coast are experiencing a loss of service on Friday afternoon. The outage affects internet, cable, and voice …
Analyst says Google can dominate Amazon if it offers Home Mini smart speakers for free
Morgan Stanley analyst Brian Nowak is responsible for a stream of news headlines this morning thanks to a call he’s issued to Google in light …
If anybody ‘kills’ the iPhone, it’s going to be Apple
Ever since Apple introduced the iPhone more than 10 years ago, everyone else in the business has copied the newcomer. We’ve been waiting for more …
New study says outer space is full of gross, toxic goop barfed out of stars
When you peer through a telescope into the night sky you’ll see plenty of neat things, including lots and lots of very distant stars, but …
Sling TV is raising the price of cheapest package, Sling Orange
While YouTube, AT&T, and Hulu have all since entered the streaming TV market, Sling TV was among the first to offer consumers a new way …
Tech companies lay the groundwork for staggeringly huge 128TB SD cards
The base amount of flash storage in most decent laptops these days is 128GB. Smartphones normally start at 16GB and go all the way up …
Watch former Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure trash his own company for 5 sad minutes
Yesterday, T-Mobile CEO John Legere and now-former Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure went before the Senate subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights to make a …
ESA’s slightly creepy AI assistant is headed to the International Space Station and definitely won’t kill everyone
Science fiction movies have taught us that mixing AI with space travel rarely works out well. From HAL 9000 to Mother, something always seems to …
Scientists just changed their mind about that ‘Alien Probe’ asteroid again
The bizarre interstellar visitor that whizzed through our Solar System late last year stunned scientists the world over. The object, named Oumuamua snuck up out …
The possibility of alien life on Saturn’s moon Enceladus just got much more realistic
Scientists continue to peer deeper into the galaxy in the search for exoplanets that may host alien life, but our best chance of finding extraterrestrial …
Pentagon furor may have distracted Google in bid to buy GitHub
Google’s Cloud CEO conceded at a Fortune Magazine event in San Francisco Wednesday something many people suspected — that the Mountain View-based computing giant got …
North America is going to totally miss out on the longest lunar eclipse of the century
North America, and more specifically the United States, got treated to a spectacular total solar eclipse in 2017, but the entire northern half of the …
Report: Increased hidden fees are making AT&T $800 million in new profit
The gratuitous imposition of “administration fees” that have no resemblance to reality is one of the many things that make Americans hate their internet companies, …
Now you can block TV spoilers and annoying political rants on Facebook
There are plenty of reasons members of the general public have begun to sour on Facebook. It’s not cool. Instagram is simpler. Privacy issues. That …
Apple and Samsung settle their patent dispute after 7 years of legal battles
Marking an end to one of the more high-profile tech disputes of our time, Apple and Samsung earlier today settled their ongoing patent dispute that …
Japan’s asteroid probe just arrived at a massive space rock, and now it gets to blow stuff up
Back in 2014, Japan’s space program JAXA launched an asteroid probe that had a long journey ahead of it. The spacecraft, called Hayabusa 2, spent …
