Scientists shot rocks out of a cannon to prove asteroids might have brought water to the early Earth
The Earth is a very, very wet place. The surface is largely covered with liquid water, but scientists have long debated exactly how so much …
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Fossilized footprints tell a story of how our ancestors hunted giant sloths
There’s plenty that archaeologists and paleontologists can learn from the bones and other artifacts left behind by ancient creatures and mankind’s own ancestors. Researchers can …
Apple might finally fix iPhone names this year
This fall, Apple will launch three iPhone models, which we’ve been referring to as iPhone X successors when discussing rumors, as it’s not clear what …
This bad lip-reading of Mark Zuckerberg’s Senate testimony is so much better than the real thing
Earlier this month, Mark Zuckerberg completed Step 7 of the Tech Company Scandal Apology Tour by trekking to Capitol Hill to be interrogated by lawmakers. …
Report claims Amazon and Tesla are some of the more dangerous places to work
Amazon and Tesla don’t really have much in common, save for the fact that if you work in one of their factories you’d be well …
Apple partner TSMC has started production of next-gen chips that will power Apple’s new iPhone
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, a company that has fabricated the A-series chips in Apple’s iPhones and iPads for years, has officially started volume production of …
The European Space Agency just released the most detailed map of the Milky Way ever constructed
You might think of our Solar System as a pretty special place — and considering it’s produced the only known example of life, that’s probably …
YouTube Remix could replace Google Play Music when it arrives later this year
Rather than introducing another redundant service that overlaps with an existing service, Google might finally sunset a service that doesn’t need to exist as it …
No, Apple didn’t deliver a ‘KO punch’ to Android with the iPhone X
Whether the iPhone X is a major win for Apple or a tremendous flop is one of the most hotly-debated questions in the technology industry …
Human bones were some of the best weapons in ancient New Guinea
Mankind has a habit of getting into conflicts. Even our earliest human ancestors found ways to make weapons out of whatever was lying around, and …
World’s unluckiest man was bitten by a rattlesnake, bear, and shark, all within three years
Even if you’re a truly dedicated outdoors adventurer, your odds of being bitten by a wild animal are pretty darn slim. Getting into a physical …
Amazon just quietly confirmed the Fire TV Cube, a next-gen streaming device
Last September, AFTVnews showed off two unreleased Fire TV streaming devices that Amazon had yet to announce. One appeared to dangle from the television by a …
Report: Huawei is now under criminal investigation in the US
So far, 2018 has been a bad year for Chinese technology companies in the US. January started with the news that the US government had …
Museum realizes fake ‘elephant bird’ egg is actually real
The elephant bird of Madagascar have been extinct for hundreds of years and as such it’s pretty difficult (read: impossible) to find an elephant bird …
$88 gets you a smartwatch that lasts 45 days per charge and works with iOS or Android
The Apple Watch is the most popular smartwatch on the planet. In fact, the Apple Watch is the most popular watch on the planet, period. …
Deutsche Bank says Apple made a big mistake by pricing the HomePod at $349
While it may be too soon to emphatically categorize Apple’s HomePod as a flop — especially with a more affordable version reportedly in the works …
Apple shares plummet on reports of weaker-than-expected iPhone X demand
With Apple deriving the vast majority of its revenue from the iPhone, it’s no surprise that the company’s share price tends to dramatically rise or …
Any sale that gets you a 2018 MacBook Pro for less than $1,000 is a good deal
The MacBook Pro, despite all my jesting, is a very good laptop. If someone gave me one (and a small mountain of dongles) I would …
The most complex penis transplant ever performed is declared a success for war veteran
A large team of surgeons and specialists at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore gave a veteran a chance to live a relatively normal life by …
MIT researchers invented a way to use water droplets as a computer interface
Water and computing don’t normally mix — unless you’ve got a water cooling system in your wicked sweet gaming PC, but I digress — but …
How to use Google’s refreshed Chrome UI right now, before anyone else
Google is a dominant force in nearly every area of its business. It all started with Google Search, of course, and the company’s search engine …
New study suggests kids are basically superhuman
Nobody really looks back on themselves as an eight-year-old and thinks that they were at their peak in terms of physical performance, but a new …
Scientists just figured out what Uranus smells like, and the jokes write themselves
Uranus isn’t the most popular place in the Solar System. It’s a cold, harsh world, and it hasn’t been studied nearly as much as some …
This is what Facebook won’t let you post
Despite the fact that Facebook is the largest social network in the world, it often operates as a nearly opaque box. There’s no oversight of …
You can now have your Amazon Prime deliveries left inside your car
You don’t get to 100 million Amazon Prime members without providing your customers plenty of reasons to keep paying that yearly subscription fee, and that’s …
OnePlus forgot to mention the notch in its ‘honest design’ story
The OnePlus 6 is a few weeks away, which means we’ve reached peak OnePlus 6 teaser. But rather than having to wait, we already have …
The DoJ’s corruption investigation of Verizon and AT&T could save us from a Sprint-T-Mobile merger
Late last week, news broke that the Department of Justice is investigating possible collusion between Verizon, AT&T, and industry body the GSMA to keep eSIMs …
Asteroid mining will produce the world’s first trillionaire, according to Goldman Sachs
There’s lots of ways to make money here on planet Earth, but the world’s first trillionaire is going to make their fortune in space. That’s …
Netflix, Amazon and Hollywood studios are suing a popular IPTV service
Consumers have never had a greater variety of choice when it comes to choosing a cable package or a streaming service, but that hasn’t stopped …
The iPhone X is being outsold by a 4-year-old iPhone design
In the leadup to the iPhone X reveal last year, analysts were visibly salivating at the prospect of an iPhone upgrade “supercycle,” a tidal wave …
