When we finally find aliens, we might find their garbage first
Searching for extraterrestrial civilizations isn’t easy or we’d probably have already found a few. Traveling to other star systems in search of aliens would obviously …
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Amazon just gave Prime members even better deals at Whole Foods
Since buying Whole Foods last year, Amazon has been working aggressively to get as many of its million of Prime members to shop in-store as …
Apple bans crypto mining on iPhones and iPads as Bitcoin price slumps again
During its recent Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple quietly slipped some language into the App Store review guidelines that prevent anyone from using iPhones and iPads …
NASA’s Opportunity rover, caught in fierce Martian dust storm, sends message back home
With so much interest in what NASA’s Curiosity rover has been up to recently — with the whole “maybe finding evidence of life” and whatnot …
Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam is stepping down this summer
Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam will be stepping down from his role in the company on August 1st, 2018, after exactly seven years at the helm …
Next-gen Apple Watch design may feature solid state buttons and a bigger display
An upcoming version of the Apple Watch will feature solid state buttons with haptic feedback courtesy of Apple’s Taptic Engine, according to a new report …
3-D printed houses are going from hype to habitable in the Netherlands
Although we’ve seen concepts and demonstrations of 3-D printed concrete houses in the past, there’s a giant gulf between building one structure as a demonstration, …
The FCC has officially banned phone companies’ worst trick
The Federal Communications Commission has voted through new rules that ban unauthorized charges on phone bills. In case you’re thinking “wait, that was legal before?!” …
Astronomers spot a trio of Earth-sized planets orbiting a distant star
Humanity is going to have to leave Earth eventually. We’ve already messed up our planet pretty badly, and even if we don’t push the Earth …
Hailstorm sends American Airlines jet into plunge described as ‘five minutes of hell’
We’ve all seen the statistics that tell us how safe flying is. It’s safer than pretty much any kind of transportation, you’re more likely to …
Don’t live in the South if you like good internet
Checking whether your new home has coverage from a good internet provider is one of the cardinal rules of buying a house these days. But …
Researcher discovers new shrimp species with furry feet, names it after Bilbo Baggins
You really have to respect scientists when it comes to the incredible amount of effort it must take to discover, identify, and categorize and entirely …
Paleontologists uncover oldest footprints ever, but they don’t know what made them
Fossilized remains of ancient creatures are pretty hard to find, but fossilized footprints are even harder. For a footprint to survive millions and millions of …
Uber and Lyft scooters are coming soon to San Francisco streets
Earlier this week, Uber launched its electric bike-sharing program in Berlin, Germany, in a move that shows the ride-sharing company isn’t just about cars. It’s …
Google could face yet another multi-billion-dollar fine in Europe, this one for Android
About a year ago, Google received a massive antitrust fine in Europe for abusing its search dominance. The EU decided Google should pay €2.42 billion …
New lawsuit claims Apple Watch display is prone to detaching for no reason at all
As one of the most sued tech companies on the planet, Apple is certainly no stranger to class-action lawsuits. Over the past few months alone, …
Oops! Facebook changed 14 million users’ default privacy setting to public
Facebook has been having a rough time with privacy and trust recently. Between the problem of fake news during the 2016 election, revelations about data-scraping …
Scientists just discovered something very special about Jupiter’s lightning
Jupiter is a massive, swirling mass of towering storm clouds, and anyone who lives on Earth knows that storms are fantastic at producing lightning. When …
NASA reveals that it’s found organic molecules on Mars that may have come from life
Earlier this week NASA announced that it had something it wanted to tell us about Mars. Today, NASA scientists presented their findings in a pair …
A day later, some Comcast phone customers still don’t have service
Yesterday, a nationwide outage affected Comcast phone customers, impacting service for customers in Denver, Atlanta, New York, San Francisco, Chicago,, Portland, Houston, Philadelphia, and Seattle. Although …
Your dog could be a victim of the next influenza pandemic
Thanks to plenty of warnings from the medical community we’re all pretty familiar with the ability of influenza viruses to jump from other animals to …
How to stream NASA’s mysterious Mars announcement today
NASA regularly releases news, scientific papers, and new theories related to Mars, and typically it’s with very little fanfare. Scientists have lots of hardware working …
Apple is going to absolutely crush Samsung this year
Samsung’s flagship smartphone business is set to have its worst year in quite some time. Despite being two of the most impressive smartphones the world …
Uber’s masterplan for conquering Europe involves fewer cars and more electric bikes
Europe hasn’t been an easy market for Uber, which faced various issues in many cities in the region. Most recently, the company lost the license …
Facebook plans to fix fake news with cable TV and buckets of cash
A few days ago, Facebook confirmed that it’s terminating its trending news portal, which wasn’t that popular with users to begin with. But Facebook will …
Conan makes fun of Apple’s Screen Time tools with ‘iPhone Basic’ parody
One of the areas of emphasis for Apple at the Worldwide Developers Conference this year was phone addiction. We all spend far too much time …
T-Mobile’s coverage is miles better than 12 months ago – but only if you have an Android phone
A little under one year ago, T-Mobile turned on the first site in the US to use its 600MHz frequency, a low-band chunk of spectrum …
NASA’s New Horizons probe just woke back up
The last we heard of NASA’s New Horizons probe was when NASA released a set of photos taken at the farthest point any spacecraft has …
Comcast outage hits cities across the US
Comcast appears to be having intermittent problems with its service across all of the US. The company has confirmed that customers “may still be experiencing …
SpaceX forced to delay plans for first space tourism launch
Private spaceflight companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin have made some big promises when it comes to tourism in space. Eager (and very wealthy) astronaut …
