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If the Hubble Space Telescope set the standard for what a jaw-dropping space picture should look like, then the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, launched 20 years ago this week, perfected it.

Apple may ditch the butterfly mechanism keyboard on its laptops sooner than expected. The rumored 16-inch MacBook Pro -- predicted to ship this year -- may arrive with a scissor mechanism instead of the long-troubled but...

Electric car giant Tesla had its stock plunge over 10 percent in after-hours trading after posting a $408 million loss in Q2 2019--despite shipping record numbers of cars, CNBC reported on Wednesday.

Mozilla just expanded the reach of its Firefox Reality VR browser to one of its bigger platforms yet: the Oculus Quest. Owners of Facebook's stand-alone headset can surf sites, watch videos and dive into VR experiences t...

Xiaomi is both popular and notorious for putting flagship specs in dirt cheap handsets but it surprised the mobile market when it launched the Pocophone F1. That was an extremely cheap phone with high-end hardware the cu...

Telesat, the Canadian telecom and SpaceX internet competitor, wants to connect remote regions with its low-earth-orbit satellites. Now, it appears to have the backing of Her Majesty's Government. The company announced to...

Sci-fi comedy classic Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams is getting an original television adaption at Hulu, a new report claims. The series is said to be in development right now from Carlton Cuse whose...

Amazon's fondness for surveillance camera technology apparently includes programs that ask homeowners to volunteer their own cameras. Motherboard has learned that Amazon has partnerships with US police departments that h...

Here's a nifty if still early-in-development bit of science. This week, scientists at Harvard and elsewhere said they've created a novel type of dressing that could rapidly heal all sorts of wounds. The gel-based, heat-a...

So you’re the sort of person that buys odd things at auctions, and you’ve been called a hoarder, yes? Imagine one day that purchase of a bunch of old AMPEX Video Tapes turned out to be a valuable forgotten buy. That�...

The Ford Mustang Shelby GT500. The Chevrolet Corvette ZR1. The Chevrolet Corvette Z06. The Dodge Challenger and Charger Hellcats. The Dodge Challenger Demon. The Chevrolet Camaro ZL1. All of these cars are top-of-the-lin...

The 2020 Cadillac XT5 has had a refresh, and with the compact luxury SUV being the automaker’s global best-seller, it had to get the details right. Now nestling in-between the smaller XT4 and the upcoming XT6, the reva...

Democratic presidential hopeful Tulsi Gabbard has filed suit in California against Google over claims that the company briefly suspended her campaign's ability to buy ads during critical post-debate hours. With this laws...

Let me let you in on a program that’s going on right now that puts an important twist on every ‘deal’ article you’ve ever read. There’s a reason why so many blogs write articles about new “deals” on Amazon ...

Just over a year ago, Google parent company Alphabet was hit with a $5 billion fine from the European Union for antitrust violations. As you might have expected, that put a dent in the company's profits -- but this year,...

Days after a leak claimed as much, Apple has officially announced that it will acquire the majority of Intel’s smartphone modem business. The company confirmed the plan on Thursday, stating that a deal has been signed ...

For the past two decades – and the foreseeable future – the place to watch the Olympics is NBC, either by tuning in on cable or by watching on NBC’s own digital streaming platform. NBC is beginning to loosen its ti...

The rumors were (mostly) true -- Apple is buying the "majority" of Intel's smartphone modem business for $1 billion. The deal will see Apple take on 2,200 Intel workers as well as equipment, intellectual property and lea...

Netflix is notorious for quickly axing shows that aren’t performing well, that cost too much, or that don’t live up to whatever expectations it may have had for the content. The latest series on its chopping block is...

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For a free communications platform, Discord is pretty feature-rich. One of its core features is the ability to join multiple servers at a time, which are all arranged in Discord’s left sidebar. It seems that everyone h...