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 …
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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 …
A huge change is coming to Instagram, for better or worse
If you’ve ever felt restricted by Instagram’s 60-second limit for videos, we’ve got some good news for you. This week, The Wall Street Journal reported …
Earth’s days used to be just 18 hours long, but the Moon changed that
If you’ve ever felt like there just aren’t enough hours in the day just be glad that you didn’t live on Earth 1.4 billion years …
Soldier steals ‘tank-like’ armored transport, leads police on surprisingly speedy chase
Running from the police is a bad idea regardless of whether you’re on foot or in a vehicle, but a member of the Virginia Army …
The Pentagon wants AI to detect nuclear threats before they happen
The Pentagon is integrating artificial intelligence (AI) in its efforts to put a stop to nuclear threats. The goal of the new program is to …
NASA found something on Mars and it’s holding a press conference on Thursday to tell everyone
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has been on the Red Planet for a long, long time. Back in March it tallied its 2,000th Martian day, which …
Report: ZTE has reached a deal to have US sanctions lifted
According to a report from Reuters, ZTE has reached a deal with US authorities that would lift a ban that prevents it from buying parts from …
Mythical ‘Planet 9’ might actually just be a bunch of very rude asteroids
Remember “Planet 9”? No I’m not talking about Pluto. That ship has sailed. I’m talking about the maybe-kinda-sorta hidden planet that might-kinda-maybe be lurking at …
Browse 20 years of Earth’s weather with NASA’s incredible Worldview tool
Whenever NASA shows off a stunning new image of Earth from space it’s fun to take a few minutes to soak in all the details. …
Gmail’s big redesign is coming to everyone beginning next month
Earlier this year, Google began showing off a new Gmail design that would change the look of the web client and add a host of …
Skeleton of unidentified dinosaur sells for $2.36 million to private buyer, and scientists are ticked off
You’d think that once you find a nearly complete dinosaur skeleton most of the hard work would be behind you, but that wasn’t the case …
Teacher who fed a live puppy to a snapping turtle gets charged with animal cruelty
Science teachers don’t have it easy. They have to explain the workings of the animal kingdom to students in a straightforward and honest way, but …
