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NASA has revealed the dates for its Commercial Crew Program test flights. SpaceX will be up first, getting the Demo-1 uncrewed test date of January 7, 2019. Boeing’s own uncrewed test flight, which is called the Orbita...

In a conveniently timed pre-Thanksgiving news dump on Wednesday, Facebook shared a previously leaked internal memo from the company's ousted Head of Communications and Policy Elliot Schrage and an accompanying note from ...

Instagram is testing redesigned user profiles that enable users to “better express” themselves and connect with other users. The company says that some of its users may be seeing the new design at some point in the n...

When the campaign period for the European Parliament elections begin next year, political parties and candidates will have to be prepared to prove their identities in order to buy Google ads. The tech giant has revealed ...

The first flight test of an unpiloted SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft has been scheduled for January, NASA announced yesterday. The test marks an important milestone for the United States, which hasn't been able to indepen...

Christmas has its own horror sub-genre at this point (got a fun list for ya right here all about it, in fact), while Hulu's current Into the Dark anthology series is exploring the relationship between scary movies and re...

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I consider myself a pretty clean and tidy person. You would not believe this to be true, however, if you looked at my laptop. It is disgusting. There's that saying that goes something like, the floor is so clean you can ...

For the last decade or so, Range Rover has built vehicles more akin to posh living rooms that occasionally go off-roading than the rough and tumble Land Rover Defender 90s of yesteryear. That trend continues with the 202...

For years, most people would see a Hyundai driving down the road and their incredible lack of interest would leave them overlooking the herculean progress in aesthetics. Indeed, ask someone at a crime scene what model th...

Apparently a bit more than a feisty temper runs in the Solo family.

I always get a kick out of filling up the calendar spaces in my yearly planner, as it tends to give me a sense of purpose. The advent of PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) and subsequently, smartphones, has more or less ...

It was big and burly, but don't call this Triassic-era beast a dinosaur. More closely related to mammals, this oversized herbivore is rocking the paleontological world--and changing what we know of evolutionary history.

In the inky depths of the Gulf of Mexico, pearly white corals crisscross the seafloor, their translucent tentacles swaying to the current like flower petals on a midnight breeze. Lophelia pertusa brings life to what is o...

Even in a year as bad as 2018, there are things to be thankful for. Things that keep us going every day, and bring us joy and hope and prove that no matter how rough things get, there are still weird, wonderful pockets o...

Your family might have a question or two about Amazon’s Alexa and/or a very inexpensive Echo device this holiday season. As such, we’ve compiled a list of 10 simple points that you might want to relay. This isn’t a...

One of the most intriguing items on display at the Queen Mary Pathology Museum--the skull belonging to British assassin John Bellingham--has been used to create a digital reconstruction of the killer's face.

Apple is readying discounts for the iPhone XR in Japan by way of subsidies for local carriers, according to The Wall Street Journal. The markdown for the cheapest of its new batch of iPhones could come into play as soon ...

What do you look for first when picking out a new smartphone? Android or iOS? The processor chip inside? The size and resolution of the screen? How many cameras? You probably have your spec of choice, but don't sleep on ...

Amazon’s Alexa Black Friday 2018 promotions are upon us, and if you’ve been looking for an excuse to add a new Echo Dot 3rd Gen to your home, now’s the perfect opportunity. Launched only last month, the latest vers...

If you do a lot of video or photo editing, the one thing you want to avoid when buying equipment is nasty surprises. A slow or badly equipped PC, laptop or tablet will be a drag on your creative process. Meanwhile, a sub...

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