Big Oil has made small forays into the world of Instagram influencer marketing—but if history is any indication, they're just getting started. | Continue reading
A naming contest for the inanimate Artemis crew member launches today. | Continue reading
These space explorers managed to document their final moments, sending back precious data before going silent forever. | Continue reading
It’s also further evidence that extraterrestrials should've settled the entire Milky Way by now. So where are they? | Continue reading
“Audience” members will see their questions appear in a list at the top of the stream, which other users can then choose to upvote or downvote. | Continue reading
Learning to ride a bicycle is about to become trivial. | Continue reading
'Ernie,' 'Bert,' and AI-powered robots are being tested to help notoriously overworked staff | Continue reading
The China National Space Administration released new images today to commemorate the early success of the mission. | Continue reading
The primary technology that a military aircraft uses to lock and track an enemy aircraft is its onboard radar. Aircraft radars typically have two modes: search and track. In search mode, the radar sweeps a radio beam across the sky in a zig-zag pattern. When the radio beam is … | Continue reading
The party's just getting started when DARPA's new streamer-blasting counter-drone arrives. | Continue reading
Facebook reportedly plans to launch a smartwatch in 2022, but between the competition and concerns about how Facebook handles data, this watch might be DOA. | Continue reading
It’s hard to tell what will go viral online at any given time. Carp? Sure. Andrew Cuomo’s Nipples? That happened. The latest darling of the internet’s eye is less fishy and less... fleshy than both of the above, but no less bizarre: a low-grade knock-off of Apple’s Notepad app th … | Continue reading
And that price doesn't include a camera or a gimbal. | Continue reading
Suing an agency on behalf of corporate America appears to be a good path to a senior government role. | Continue reading
If you use all the features Apple's Wallet app offers in iOS 15, you're asking for trouble. | Continue reading
In an apparent effort to kill fewer people, police departments across the country are investing in the BolaWrap Remote Restraint device—basically an electronic lasso designed to automatically restrain suspects without cops having to electrocute or shoot them. | Continue reading
Scientists say that two common strains of the seasonal flu have seemingly vanished from circulation, likely due to public health measures like mask-wearing meant to slow the covid-19 pandemic. Though it will take time to confirm the disappearing act, the unexpected good news coul … | Continue reading
Throughout Friday afternoon, using the image search function on Microsoft-operated Bing using the words “Tank Man” returned the message, “There are no results for tank man / Check your spelling or try different keywords.” | Continue reading
The U.S. Department of Justice plans to take a much harsher tack when pursuing cybercriminals involved in ransomware attacks—and will investigate them using similar strategies to the ones currently employed against foreign and domestic terrorists. | Continue reading
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday said a Georgia police officer had not violated the country’s main anti-hacking law by improperly accessing a government database for financial gain, a decision likely to curtail prosecutions under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) of indiv … | Continue reading
Today, all of humanity is under attack, this time from an overheated planet—and too many newsrooms still are more inclined to cover today’s equivalent of dance competitions. Climate change is underway and threatens unparalleled catastrophe. | Continue reading
Unless you specifically tell it not to, Amazon will automatically enroll you in Sidewalk, which—it’s easy to imagine—could lead to some potentially unwanted privacy and security issues down the road. | Continue reading
Paramount Pictures has found a way to avoid paying taxes on franchises including Spongebob Squarepants, Mission: Impossible, and Star Trek by routing revenue from international licensing through a complicated network of foreign subsidiaries, according to a new study. | Continue reading
Twitter is one of many social media companies that’s struggled to keep misinformation from running rampant on its platform over the years. Its latest attempt to move the needle looks to be a tiered warning label system that changes based on how wrong you are, according to app res … | Continue reading
Researchers have identified a Sudanese melon as the progenitor of the domesticated watermelon. | Continue reading
Iran banned bitcoin mining this week, after four months of blackouts partially due to what officials say is a huge energy suck from illegal mining. President Hassan Rouhani said illegal bitcoin mining was tapping a staggering 2 gigawatts of power each day. | Continue reading
WhatsApp initially threatened to revoke core functions for users that refused to accept its controversial new privacy policy, only to walk back the severity of those consequences earlier this month amid international backlash, and now, it’s doing away with them altogether (for th … | Continue reading
A group of UK officers who thought they were going to bust up a massive cannabis farm found something completely different behind the doors of a local warehouse: a regular, legal, bitcoin mine. | Continue reading
Have I Been Pwned, or HIBP, a website that allows users to check if their passwords have been compromised, is about to get a powerful new partner—the Feds. | Continue reading
For at least the second time in recent memory, a person’s life potentially hinges on critical information that is being withheld by a social platform. | Continue reading
The policy shift comes on the same day that President Joe Biden called upon U.S. intelligence officials to “redouble” their efforts to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. | Continue reading
Like the city it calls home, Lego’s 9,036-piece Roman Colosseum has already fallen as the largest set ever released by the toymaker. Half a year after the landmark’s reveal, Lego’s new World Map set has stolen the record with 11,695 pieces that mostly consist of tiny single-stud … | Continue reading
Netflix is seriously considering expanding into gaming, according to several reports from the past few days. Not only is the streaming giant rumored to be looking to hire a gaming executive to oversee the effort, but it’s also reportedly mulling building out its own version of an … | Continue reading
Visiting a beloved pet on a video call just isn’t the same, so researchers at National Taiwan University developed a VR controller that allows the user to feel simulated fur while petting a virtual animal. | Continue reading
Physicists have built two tiny drums, each as large as a human hair is wide, and synchronized their vibrations exactly. They achieved this perfect unison of drums using a quantum mechanics phenomenon known as entanglement—and the drums could be useful for developing quantum compu … | Continue reading
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is facing a million-dollar lawsuit for allegedly stealing the idea to create a Woz-branded tech school, according to a weekend Insider report. | Continue reading
In what truly seems like a dystopian nightmare come to life, the public safety alert app Citizen apparently has plans to hire teams of security contractors to respond to app users’ incident response requests—a sort of Blackwater-ification of local public safety that can surely on … | Continue reading
An experiment in which 36 people were fitted with a robotic third thumb has demonstrated the brain’s uncanny ability to adapt and leverage an entirely new body part, and in ways the researchers are still trying to understand. | Continue reading
If there’s one sure sign a creature isn’t of this world, but some other horrific realm, it’s a lack of a face. | Continue reading
You'll soon be able to use your Nest and your Android phone to control other Matter-compatible gadgets. | Continue reading
The $400 tablet has a built-in stylus and seems tailor-made for both note-taking and reading. | Continue reading
We’re officially entering the second week in a row of fighting between Israel and Palestine, which means we probably haven’t seen the last of the hundreds of deaths and countless injuries inflicted on Gaza residents thus far. If you’re looking for a way to donate to the victims, … | Continue reading
The cryptocurrency market has taken a major dive, as it does. Now a band of traders has decided to form the people’s coin, appropriately named StopElon, to Stop Elon Musk from wielding intractable control over the market with his tweets. Much like China. And Mark Cuban. And volat … | Continue reading
For $75, you can play most of your classic faves. | Continue reading
Whenever deepfakes make the news, it’s almost always for the latest terrifying way bad actors have figured out how to spawn hoaxes or cyberbully people using the AI-powered technology. However, the media industry has found some more practical (and less sinister) applications, suc … | Continue reading
Twitter hasn’t released many details about the paid subscription model it’s cooking up, but thanks to app researcher Jane Manchun Wong we may have some clues about what it will cost and be called. On Saturday, Wong tweeted that the subscription service Twitter Blue will cost $2.9 … | Continue reading
Twitter hasn’t released many details about the paid subscription model it’s cooking up, but thanks to app researcher Jane Manchun Wong we may have some clues about what it will cost and be called. On Saturday, Wong tweeted that the subscription service Twitter Blue will cost $2.9 … | Continue reading
Amid a DOJ probe, people are trying to rescue open-source academic paper site Sci-Hub before it’s wiped off the web. A group of data-hoarding redditors have banned together to torent each of the 85 million articles currently housed within Sci-Hub’s walls. | Continue reading