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SpaceX rocket survives an intentional water landing
Engadget - 1 Feb 2018 05:32
Right now, SpaceX is only reusing rockets to a limited degree -- it's disposing of vehicles after a short while when they're unlikely to survive their next flight. With its latest launch, though, it got lucky. Elon Musk ...
Elon Musk's Zombie Apocalypse Flamethrower Has Made $7 Million
Tech Times - 1 Feb 2018 05:08
Elon Musk's Boring Company has sold $7 million worth of flamethrowers. The Tesla CEO claims the flamethrower is perfect for fighting off hordes of zombies.
Google Testing New Ways To Fix Snippet Function
Tech Times - 1 Feb 2018 04:15
Google is testing new features to remove inaccurate and offensive results from its snippet function. Late last year, the function came under fire when it produced offensive results as vital information on the topic.
Drones can fix our forest problem by planting 100,000 trees a day
BGR - 1 Feb 2018 05:02
We're so good and so busy at cutting down trees that we can't possibly make up for the forests we lose each year by replanting trees by hand. However, smart drones could fix humanity's major deforestation problem by p...
Equifax Extends Free Credit Freezes Until June 30th, Should Be Forced to Do It Forever
Gizmodo - 1 Feb 2018 04:40
Equifax, the credit-rating agency which royally screwed up in 2017 when it lost the personal data of at least 145.5 million Americans to hackers despite being warned months before that exact thing could happen, has exten...
Opportunity Mars Rover Wheels Past 14 Years of Exploration
SPACE.com - 1 Feb 2018 14:25Mario movie cometh, Nintendo working with 'Despicable Me' studio - CNET
CNET - 1 Feb 2018 05:19
Take two: Mario's first forray into film back in 1993 isn't remembered fondly, but Nintendo now hopes to right that wrong.
Apple Could Make The iPhone 6s In India If Supplier Wistron Closes New Deal
Tech Times - 1 Feb 2018 05:04
Wistron, Apple's main supplier in India, is reportedly close to securing a deal for a plant in Bengaluru. In addition to the iPhone SE, Wistron would reportedly make the iPhone 6s in India as well, and it would make sens...
California Coffee Shops Should Warn About Cancer Risk From Coffee Chemical, Lawsuit Alleges
Tech Times - 1 Feb 2018 05:03
California coffee shops could be forced to display warnings that a chemical found in coffee may pose a cancer risk. The chemical is called acrylamide and is created during the process of roasting coffee beans.
Slack is latest major service to drop standalone Apple Watch app
AppleInsider - 1 Feb 2018 04:48
Enterprise messaging platform Slack updated its iOS app on Wednesday and in doing so announced the deprecation of its standalone Apple Watch app, marking the latest major service to dump Apple's wrist-bound wearable.
Traumatic Brain Injury May Still Increase Dementia Risk Years After Accident
Tech Times - 1 Feb 2018 04:31
Traumatic brain injury patients still face a greater risk of dementia decades after the accident. Experts offered advice on how those with TBI can reduce their risk of developing the neurological disorder.
Telegram & Telegram X messaging apps both disappear from App Store without explanation
9 to 5 Mac - 1 Feb 2018 04:26
Popular messaging app Telegram has today disappeared from the App Store on iPhone and iPad. Interestingly, both the primary Telegram app and the faster, Swift-built alternative Telegram X have been removed without any re...
New Selfie From Curiosity Rover
SpaceRef - 1 Feb 2018 04:01
A new self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle on Vera Rubin Ridge, which it has been investigating for the past several months....
Facebook promoted lies and conspiracy theories following Amtrak crash
Mashable - 1 Feb 2018 03:54GoPro Plus plan replaces broken action cameras, offers several perks
Slash Gear - 1 Feb 2018 03:53
Action cameras are inherently prone to damage — after all, they’re designed to ride on drones, attach to mountain bikes, record under water, and more. GoPro remains the best known action camera maker in the US, and m...
Microsoft Office365, cloud boost sales surge
USA Today - 1 Feb 2018 03:48
The tech company has yet to say what it plans to do with around $130 billion in cash it has been keeping overseas.
Draft Trump budget slashes clean energy research by 72 percent
BGR - 1 Feb 2018 03:31
I don't think anyone listening to Trump's proclamations about "beautiful clean coal" thought this administration was going to be in favor of renewable energy. According to a draft 2019 budget proposal obtained by the Was...
A new study of Airbnb paints an ugly picture of the company's impact on New York City housing
TechCrunch - 1 Feb 2018 03:29
For anyone who knows their city well, it’s easy to see that the short-term rental boom spurred by Airbnb’s massive popularity is changing things. Figuring out what exactly is changing and how quickly is trickier. In ...
What the Super Blue Blood Moon eclipse looked like around the world
USA Today - 1 Feb 2018 03:17
It won’t happen for 19 years
Mark Zuckerberg: People are spending 50 million fewer hours on Facebook a day
USA Today - 1 Feb 2018 03:04Woz explains the one aspect of the iPhone X design he can't stand
BGR - 1 Feb 2018 03:00
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak -- a bona fide legend in Silicon Valley -- has never been afraid to give the masses his unfiltered opinion on all things tech related. And though Woz made his name and fortune developing bo...
Microsoft offers three unconvincing reasons why its consumer business isn't dead yet
PC World - 1 Feb 2018 02:49
While Microsoft continues to be buoyed by enterprise and cloud services like Azure, chief executive Satya Nadella tried to reassure analysts that Microsoft still has a consumer strategy: Xbox, PC gaming, and devices powe...