Frustrated by the lack of quality lightsabers in toy shops, Makoto Tsai did what any self-respecting hardcore Star Wars fan would do -- he studied engineering at college and then spent years perfecting a replica. As fans gather globally on May 4th for what has become the unoffic … | Continue reading
Britain's opposition Labour Party on Wednesday called for "real action" after parliament became the first in the world to vote to declare a climate emergency. "Thanks to pressure from the Labour Party, the UK just became the first country to declare an environment and #climateem … | Continue reading
The platform, Luminary, is boosted by $100 million in investment, making it an ambitious project in a young market. The other is ad-free but requires a subscription, for $7.99 per month, which includes 25 exclusive podcasts that will grow to more than 40. Luminary is also avail … | Continue reading
There are ten new virtual reality headsets coming out in 2019, at least according to Valve -- which is contributing one to that number. Two of those are coming from Facebook-owned Oculus: the Oculus Rift S -- which offers an iterative improvement over the Rift -- and the Oculus Q … | Continue reading
Here's a hypothetical: a telescope detects an asteroid between 100 and 300 meters in diameter racing through our solar system at 14 kilometers per second, 57 million kilometers from Earth. It's this potentially catastrophic scenario that 300 astronomers, scientists, engineers an … | Continue reading
Japanese car giant Toyota and investment fund SoftBank Vision Fund on Friday unveiled an investment of $1 billion in US company Uber to drive forward the development of driverless ridesharing services. The latest cash injection, expected to close in the third quarter this year, … | Continue reading
This is Boom Live, one of seven tiny fact-checking firms at the heart of Facebook’s efforts to rebuild some of its credibility during India’s elections. Based on the early tallies, more than 60 percent of India’s 900 million eligible voters are expected to cast ballots between n … | Continue reading
At least one running argument among cat lovers is now over: Whiskers, Lucy and Tigger are definitely better off staying indoors, scientists reported Wednesday. Pet cats allowed outdoors, in fact, are nearly three times as likely to become infected with pathogens or parasites tha … | Continue reading
Yahoo News has assembled a list of three dozen code-named operations across Africa. While the Pentagon has acknowledged the names, locations and purposes of some of these operations, others are far lower profile. Almost all are unknown to the general public. | Continue reading
Liu, who started the company that would become JD.com in 1998, in the note spoke about how in the firm's earliest days he would set his alarm clock to wake him up every two hours to ensure he could offer his customers 24-hour service - a step he said was crucial to JD's success. … | Continue reading
Used car dealers faced a financial crisis after recalls over deadly Takata airbags and GM ignition switches. So dealers wrote their own legislation and used lobbyists to get it passed. | Continue reading
The first ever photo of a black hole has been revealed by scientists. The stunning image shows the first ever look at a black hole: a flaming ring of yellow and red. As well as allowing humanity to see a black hole for the first time, it helped advance our understanding of the … | Continue reading
Beresheet just became the first Israeli and privately-financed spacecraft to enter the moon’s orbit. | Continue reading
Unemployed people derive significant psychological benefits from receiving a fixed amount of financial support from the state, according to a landmark experiment into basic income in Finland that highlights the disadvantages of the country’s existing means-tested system. Initial … | Continue reading
Insiders also say it could help stave off any effort by Washington to break up the company. Tech giants are hunkering down in the face of a mounting bipartisan backlash after outrage over the failure of Facebook, YouTube and Twitter Inc. to swiftly remove video of the New Zealan … | Continue reading
AT&T, one month after it thought it was safe to advertise on YouTube again, said it is pulling all advertising spending from the world's biggest video platform. The telco joins a boycott by marketers alarmed by the discovery that a secret group of child predators has been using Y … | Continue reading
The National Security Agency's Hawaii outpost, whose most notorious employee was the whistle-blower Edward Snowden, is focused on uncertainty in the Pacific region, from nuclear development in North Korea to China’s increasing aggression in the South China Sea. | Continue reading
The canoe had been the idea of Tom Hewitt, the agents’ case officer in the CIA’s huge Miami station, where he waited for word of the mission. It would be Hewitt’s job to guide their actions from afar, now that they were back in their homeland. | Continue reading
NASA's DART is the first planetary defense mission in history. Its main objective is to demonstrate a kinetic impact on an asteroid. | Continue reading
Ages ago, in a galaxy some 300 million light years away, an unwitting star veered fatally close to a powerful black hole. After shredding the star apart, the black hole ejected pulses of energy into the cosmos. Astronomers received this ancient signal, made of x-rays, in 2014. No … | Continue reading
Former officials said Miller's appearances have been a "disaster" and are a sign of a communications operation in disarray. | Continue reading
American tech firm Cloudflare is providing cybersecurity services to at least | Continue reading
Incredible neon sea creatures have been captured lighting up the ocean with their vibrant colors – in what looked like a scene from Avatar. Photographer Simon Pierce, 39, took the images over several months after visiting both Nosy Sakatia in Madagascar and Mafia Island in Tanzan … | Continue reading
For years, quantum computing, which leverages the difficult, and, to many, spooky science of quantum mechanics, has been a subject mostly of interest to the technical elite. Yet as scientists and now policymakers point to the rapid progress that China is making in the field, it’s … | Continue reading
DeepMind’s artificial intelligence programme AlphaZero is now showing signs of human-like intuition and creativity, in what developers have hailed as ‘turning point’ in history. The computer system amazed the world last year when it mastered the game of chess from scratch within … | Continue reading
From 2009 to 2013, the CIA’s online method of communicating with its sources was compromised — leading to the exfiltration, imprisonment or death of dozens of people. And the problem is proving hard to fix. | Continue reading
The office of the special counsel investigating ties between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 election says it is "tying up loose ends." | Continue reading
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