Well, it seems Russian military officials don’t want to just stop with that fearsome new hypersonic intercontinental ballistic missile that was tested last month, which we told you about and which Russia claims …
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There’s no room for a T-Mobile streaming service in an already saturated market
Earlier yesterday, a rumor surfaced claiming that T-Mobile would be rolling out a brand new ad-supported TV streaming service over the next few weeks. The rumor didn’t seem all that outrageous given previous reports …
No one knows why non-existent bands have started showing up on Spotify playlists
Spotify has officially acknowledged a curious phenomenon that’s manifested itself recently across the streaming music service’s platform. Fake artists and bands with strange names — and practically no Internet presence at all — …
This scary report says the government shutdown is crippling US cybersecurity
At this point, you’re probably sick of reading stories about the ongoing partial government shutdown which, at the time of this writing, still has no end in sight. It’s important to note, however …
Microsoft CEO: Face recognition technology is basically the Wild West right now
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been beating the privacy drum hard this week during an appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos, telling attendees that the US needs its own version of …
Future poisonous gas sensor in iPhone and Apple Watch could protect you from biohazards
Beyond things like monitoring your heart health and spurring you to exercise more, future iPhone and Apple Watch models might literally save your life one day in an even more dramatic and urgent …
Thanks to 3 million patrons, Patreon will pay out $500M to artists and creators this year
The online membership platform Patreon has been growing like gangbusters since it was launched in 2013 — and especially lately, at the expense of sites like YouTube that have changed up their algorithms …
To make ends meet during the shutdown, federal employees are driving for Uber
One of the results of the partial federal government shutdown now persisting for over a month is that some 800,000 workers on Uncle Sam’s payroll are having to scramble to make ends meet …
Elon Musk was approached about building tunnels for CERN’s massive new atom smasher
Italian particle physicist Fabiola Gianotti cornered Tesla chief executive Elon Musk last July in London at a gathering of the Royal Society scientific academy. Gianotti, who’s also the director of the CERN organization …
These before-and-after photos of the volcano that caused Indonesia’s tsunami are insane
A big chunk of the Anak Krakatau volcano collapsed last month off the coast of a couple of Indonesian islands, with the collapse of that 158-acre section into the water transforming the volcano …
