Remembering Enterprise: The Test Shuttle That Never Flew to Space

NASA flew 135 Space Shuttle missions—none of which would've been possible without a lone prototype that piggybacked on top of jumbo jets. | Continue reading


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New Kids’ Privacy App Teaches Digital Privacy While Blocking Trackers

The Do Not Track Kids app will help you fight back against tech companies who harvest kids' data. | Continue reading


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UberEats Adds Weed Delivery to App in Toronto

Torontonian stoners age 19 years or older can begin purchasing cannabis via Uber Eats today. | Continue reading


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Unopened iPhone From 2007 Sells for $39,000 at Auction

The factory-sealed 8GB Apple smartphone originally sold for $599 in stores. | Continue reading


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Duolingo, It’s Time to Log Off

The language teaching app's newest tweet is a sign that the company is trying too hard to master social media. | Continue reading


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Amazon’s First Internet Satellites Will Launch on an Unproven Rocket

The company will no longer be using ABL Space Systems to launch its Kuiper-1 and Kuiper-2 satellites and will instead use ULA's Vulcan Centaur rocket. | Continue reading


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Microsoft Office Retiring After 30 Years. Behold Microsoft 365

The Microsoft Office suite of tools is getting a new name and a fancy new app logo. | Continue reading


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Digital License Plates Become Legal in California

They have plenty of cool features, but it'll cost you. | Continue reading


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Google Gives OK for Truth Social on Play Store

The tech giant said Truth Social promises to remove violent and inciting content, but Truth's moderation policies have been spotty, to say the least. | Continue reading


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Nick Clegg,a Meta Executives 'Inadvertently' Identified in OnlyFans Bribery Suit

A lawyer for OnlyFans said the names of Meta executives were meant to be redacted. | Continue reading


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Meta executives ‘inadvertently’ identified in OnlyFans bribery suit

A lawyer for OnlyFans said the names of Meta executives were meant to be redacted. | Continue reading


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U.S. Preps for Nuclear Fallout

The U.S. government purchased an anti-radiation drug, while radiation emergency information posters line PATH trains in New Jersey and New York. | Continue reading


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Egypt Wants Its Rosetta Stone Back from the British Museum

A group of archeologists has banded together to demand the return of the ancient slab. | Continue reading


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Celsius Execs Cashed Out $40M in Crypto Before Halting Withdrawals for Customers

The former CEO's wife also appears to have pulled out $2 million before shit hit the fan. | Continue reading


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The business news outlet and its sister sites were offline for more than a week after the Fast Co. content management system was breached. | Continue reading


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NASA Tests Gigantic Slingshot for Hurling Objects into Space

The successful 10th test of SpinLaunch's suborbital accelerator included a NASA sensor and other partner payloads. | Continue reading


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Supreme Court Is Putting the Future of Section 230 Protections on Its Docket

Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and more all depend on being shielded from responsibility for user content via Section 230, but that could soon change. | Continue reading


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Hurricane Ian Pushes NASA's Next Moon Rocket Launch Attempt to November

Kennedy Space Center and SLS emerged unscathed, but the storm upset NASA’s plan to fly the Artemis 1 mission in October. | Continue reading


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Rights Groups Say The Pentagon Is Buying Its Way Around the Fourth Amendment

Two dozen civil rights groups urged Congress to pass transparency rules around military purchases of private data. | Continue reading


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NYPD Considers Using Encryption to Block Public from Radio Scanner Broadcasts

Critics warn the change could restrict members of the media and impede protestors' ability to effectively organize. | Continue reading


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More evidence for liquid water on Mars

Mysterious signals from the Martian south pole have scientists puzzled: Is that water or not? | Continue reading


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Elon Says Tesla's Cybertruck Will Be 'Waterproof Enough.'

In anticipation for Tesla Artificial Intelligence Day, Elon Musk has offered some vague previews of both his upcoming car and his planned robot. | Continue reading


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Elon Musk's Private Texts with Joe Rogan, Jack Dorsey, Larry Ellison

The messages were filed in court as part of Twitter's lawsuit against the SpaceX CEO. | Continue reading


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The CIA Wants to Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth

A firm funded by the CIA is the latest investor in Colossal Biosciences. | Continue reading


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Banning Coding Books Will Only Make Parents Fight Harder for Them

The CEO of Girls Who Code writes that book bans only expose the hypocrisy of those imposing them and calls for parents to fight back. | Continue reading


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Elizabeth Warren Wants the FTC to Stop Amazon's $1.7B iRobot Acquisition

The senator and five other Democrats sent a letter to the FTC saying the deal would reduce competition and harm consumers. | Continue reading


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Google Will Alert You When Your Phone Number and Address Show in Search Results

Results About You aims to provide a simpler way for people to request their sensitive personal info be removed from Google Search results. | Continue reading


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The Kindle Scribe Is Amazon's First E-Note, Comes with Stylus

It's the first Kindle that works with an included stylus to turn your e-reader into a digital notebook. | Continue reading


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UK Royals Force News Sites to Delete Embarrassing Video Clips

The footage was livestreamed to tens of millions but at least five short clips have already been deleted online. | Continue reading


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I Fooled Millions into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss

“Slim by Chocolate!” the headlines blared. A team of German researchers had found that people on a low-carb diet lost weight 10 percent faster if they ate a chocolate bar every day. It made the front page of Bild, Europe’s largest daily newspaper, just beneath their update about … | Continue reading


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OpenFPGA-Enabled Analogue Pocket Can Now Play Super Nintendo Games

No jailbreaking or complicated hardware hacks required. | Continue reading


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Ethereum Plunges After SEC Chair Says ‘The Merge’ Could Make Crypto a Security

Ethereum is down 26% over the past week to just $1,290 while bitcoin is down 17% to $18,420. | Continue reading


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The Air Force Just Survived a Reply-All Apocalypse

Turns out it’s pretty damn easy to spam the entire Air Force using just one email address. | Continue reading


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What's Causing These Geological Formations on the Great Salt Lake?

Odd white structures have been appearing at Utah's Great Salt Lake the past few winters, alarming park rangers. | Continue reading


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Elon Musk Makes a Fake Future at a Tesla Drive-In Movie Theater

Elon Musk is opening a nostalgia-laden, retro-futuristic drive-in movie theater for Tesla owners. How imaginary is the past—and future—he’s basing it on? | Continue reading


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DEA published a list of emoji code for drugs

Think those emojis your teen is using are harmless? Think again, says the Drug Enforcement Agency—especially if there's a maple leaf involved. | Continue reading


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DARPA Wants to Build an 'Internet' of Connected Satellites in Low Earth Orbit

The agency is bringing together experts to build tools that seek to standardize communication between tens of thousands of satellites. | Continue reading


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What to Do If a Big Tech Company Steals Your Code

A cybersecurity professional presented research at Black Hat about how his algorithm was co-opted by at least three separate companies. | Continue reading


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How Can Textbook Publishers Milk Students Even More? NFTs, Apparently

Recent reports show major textbook publisher Pearson’s CEO thinks NFTs could help them track and get a cut of second-hand digital textbook sales. | Continue reading


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Amazon's Creepy Palm Reading Payment System Is Taking over Whole Foods

The company will expand the biometric payment system to 65 Whole Foods in California, marking the single largest expansion of the technology. | Continue reading


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Former Twitter Employee Convicted as Saudi Spy

Feds alleged U.S. citizen Ahmad Abouammo used his public relations position at Twitter to funnel information to MBS about Saudi dissidents. | Continue reading


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'The Amazing Spider-Man' Led to the Creation of the Prisoner Ankle Monitor

A judge in New Mexico was inspired while reading the funnies in 1977. | Continue reading


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Silicon Valley's Push into Transportation Has Been a Miserable Failure

The titans of tech brought plenty of disruption to our broken transportation system but delivered little in the way of innovation. | Continue reading


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Cory Doctorow on 20 years of Copyright Wars

Author and activist Cory Doctorow reflects on the fight over who owns what in a digital world. | Continue reading


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He Story of Napoleon Hill, the Greatest Self-Help Scammer of All Time (2016)

Napoleon Hill is the most famous conman you’ve probably never heard of. Born into poverty in rural Virginia at the end of the 19th century, Hill went on to write one of the most successful self-help books of the 20th century: Think and Grow Rich. In fact, he helped invent the gen … | Continue reading


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TikTok's Attempts to ‘Downplay the China Association’

Leaked documents detail what TikTok tells the media—and what it doesn’t. | Continue reading


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Are the Colors in Webb Telescope Images 'Fake'?

Humans can't see infrared light, so what makes Webb Space Telescope images so dazzling? | Continue reading


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Twitter Obliterates Elon Musk's Excuses for Killing Buyout Deal

Twitter called Musk's claims "factually inaccurate, legally insufficient, and commercially irrelevant." | Continue reading


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