NASA is about to test ‘quiet’ sonic booms over Texas
Humans have already mastered the art of going really really fast in the sky, and modern technology has made topping the speed of sound a …
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T-Mobile Sprint merger could be a threat to national security, lawmakers say
There’s plenty of reasons why you wouldn’t want T-Mobile’s merger with Sprint to go through with zero restrictions, but if concerns about reduced competition, higher …
Why did cord-cutting just get more expensive?
People are ditching cable and signing up for live-streaming services at an unprecedented rate right now. It’s a mixed bag for the industry: Although the …
Outer space has way better fireworks than we ever will
Well, it’s the Fourth of July, which means sunburns, cookouts, and lots of questionable fuses being lit from coast to coast. But whether you’ll be …
How to watch the 2018 Hot Dog Eating Contest live
The July 4th holiday is upon us and people around the country are gearing up to watch one of America’s most storied traditions. No, we’re …
Happy Fourth of July from the International Space Station!
The International Space Station is, as its name implies, a common ground for astronauts from many different countries, but that doesn’t stop them from having …
Amazon could start selling cheap drugs ‘right away,’ experts think
Hot on the heels of #disrupting the grocery world by purchasing Whole Foods, Amazon is dipping its toes into the US healthcare market with a …
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft just got closer to dwarf planet Ceres than ever before, and here’s what it looks like
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is one that we don’t hear from very often these days, mainly because it spent seven years on its way to dwarf …
The US ban on ZTE has been temporarily lifted
It’s been a rollercoaster few weeks for ZTE, one of China’s biggest telecommunications firms. First, the company was slapped with a seven-year ban for its …
NASA’s latest photo of Jupiter is pretty enough to be your desktop wallpaper
Jupiter is the largest planet in our Solar System by a pretty wide margin, and while it’s not exactly the most welcoming to human visitors, …
Amazon Music Unlimited and Kindle Unlimited Prime Day promos are already live, and they’re awesome
Ladies and gentlemen, Prime Day 2018 is official… and it’s more than a day. Amazon announced on Tuesday morning that Prime Day 2018 will begin …
If this rumor is right, Apple’s 2019 iPhones will get 5G before almost anyone else
After years of hype, we’re approaching the final stretch before 5G networks are going to stop being a bluster and start being a deliciously gigabit-speed …
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 …
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 …
