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Tuesday May 22, 2018. 02:45 PM
Enlarge / A sooty Falcon 9 rocket is ready for launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (credit: NASA) SpaceX will attempt its 10th launch of the year on Tuesday, a mission serving two different customers. The Falcon 9 rocket will carry five communications...
Monday May 21, 2018. 10:05 PM
Enlarge (credit: T-Mobile) T-Mobile USA should stop claiming that it has 'America's Best Unlimited Network,' the advertising industry's self-regulator said today. AT&T challenged T-Mobile's ads to the National Advertising Division (NAD), which ruled that T-Mobile hasn't...
Enlarge / Nurses working with the World Health Organization administer the Ebola vaccine to a local doctor at the town hall of Mbandaka on May 21, 2018 during the launch of the Ebola vaccination campaign. (credit: Getty | JUNIOR KANNAH) With more than 7,500 doses of an...
Last week, some Call of Duty fans were surprised and dismayed to hear that Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 will be the first game in the series to not include a single-player campaign mode. Those fans might be less surprised if they looked at Achievement statistics, which show a...
Enlarge / Femur, tibia, and fibula, and two small stones. (credit: PNAS) Roman military accounts from the early centuries CE describe the tribes of north-central Europe as fierce fighters who took the field with large forces and treated vanquished foes with ritual...
Enlarge / Apparently, enough people are buying Fortnite's wholly optional outfits and dance moves to fuel $100 million of prizes for the game's first year of esports tourneys. (credit: Epic Games) How serious is Fortnite as a video gaming phenomenon? Today's announcement of ...
Enlarge / FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn speaks at a Kaiser Family Foundation panel discussion on November 4, 2015 in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty Images | Larry French) As Mignon Clyburn left the Federal Communications Commission, the longtime telecom regulator worried...
Enlarge / The Earth's magnetic field is remarkably sneaky. (credit: NASA) It was bound to happen eventually. A group of researchers that may actually be competent and well-funded is investigating alternative thrust concepts. This includes our favorite, the WTF-thruster...
Enlarge / The Ariane 5 rocket launches in April, 2018. (credit: Ariane Group) The France-based Ariane Group is the primary contractor for the Ariane 5 launch vehicle, and it has also begun developing the Ariane 6 rocket. The firm has a reliable record—indeed, NASA chose...
Capcom's announcement video for the Japanese Biohazard 7: Cloud Edition. Capcom will give Japanese Switch owners a chance to play last year's Resident Evil 7 on the Switch later this week. But the port will only be playable as an online stream running on Capcom's own...
Enlarge (credit: Buick) Everyone thinks they're a good driver. Despite this, the annual death toll on our roads keeps going up—despite ever-safer vehicles—and human error is to blame for 97 percent of all fatal crashes. Bad driving isn't just about crashes, though;...
Enlarge (credit: ymgerman / Getty Images News) A new group of apps in China's App Store is facing scrutiny from Apple. According to a report from 9to5Mac, the iPhone maker is curtailing apps with CallKit framework due to a 'newly enforced regulation' from the Chinese...
Enlarge / Meet Eagle Prime, your new robotic overlord. (credit: Chris Schodt) OAKLAND, Calif.—As far as mass entertainment goes, giant robots smashing each other should be a sure bet. Turns out, there are a lot of kinks to work out first. On Sunday, MegaBots, a Hayward,...
Enlarge (credit: Getty | Kerry Sheridan) A drug manufacturer used the same uncleaned equipment to make pesticides as it did several human drugs, according to a warning letter released by the Food and Drug Administration. The result was that at least two medicines were...
Enlarge / These are the 'imps' that you'll use to manipulate worlds and objects in Dreams, whether you're in an adventure or just goofing around in its editor mode. (credit: Media Molecule) SANTA MONICA, California—Ten years ago, the LittleBigPlanet game series did the...
Enlarge / Amnon Shashua, co-founder and CTO of Mobileye. (credit: Arielinson / Wikimedia) Mobileye, the Israeli self-driving technology company Intel acquired last year, announced on Thursday that it would begin testing up to 100 cars on the roads of Jerusalem. But in a...
Ron Amadeo OnePlus might not be a perfect Android device maker, with fairly regular controversies involving its security mistakes, bad advertising decisions, and lack of a concrete support policy. But OnePlus is really good at making high-end hardware at a low price,...
Enlarge / The far side of the Moon. No robotic spacecraft has ever made a soft landing here. (credit: NASA) China's space agency has taken a critical first step toward an unprecedented robotic landing on the far side of the Moon. On Monday, local time, the China Aerospace...
Sunday May 20, 2018. 06:55 PM
Enlarge / WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 26: Tesla's new Model 3 car on display is seen on Friday, January 26, 2018, at the Tesla store in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images) (credit: Getty Images) On Saturday night, Tesla CEO Elon Musk ...
Enlarge (credit: Apple) A small group of developers for Apple platforms has banded together to request new features and policies from Apple, and its members say they have ideas for ways to make it easier to make a living on the platform, Wired reports. They're calling it...
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