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It's been a great, enormous storm for more than a 100 years. But will Jupiter's Great Red Spot last much longer?

China's market regulator chief Xiao Yaqing met with Apple Inc's Chief Executive Tim Cook in Beijing on Thursday, the regulator said on Friday.

Facebook's plans to launch its Libra cryptocurrency faced a new hurdle on Thursday, when the Group of Seven wealthy nations said such "stablecoins" should not be allowed to launch until the profound... international risks they pose are addressed.

NASA’s InSight rover has dug its ‘mole’ about two centimeters into the surface of Mars, the space agency announced today. This process involved the spacecraft’s robotic arm, which is home to a... heat probe NASA calls its ‘mole.’ The nickname refers to the probe’s purpose: it digs down into the ground to determine how much heat is escaping from the …

We may have been looking for the next Game of Thrones in the wrong places, because it's already airing on HBO. Succession might lack the epic battles that make the fantasy genre so great, but it does... nail the family politics. From the pilot all the way to the shocking finale of season 2, you won't be able to put it down. And you'll love the characters for the same very reasons you'll hate them, from the authoritarian family head and leader of a massive media corporation Logan Roy (Brian Cox) who can't let go, to his four children all seeking to prove their worthiness to their father, and all the high ranking minions and acolytes that we get to meet in this two-season journey. With season 3 set to launch in 2020, we have a long time to digest what happened and imagine how the show will move...

Expect it during Monday Night Football, but don't bet the Millennium Falcon on which Monday.

Xbox Live went down worldwide on Monday afternoon, leaving gamers unable to access their favorite games.

A test by YouTube channel PhoneBuff revealed just how much battery may be saved by activating Dark Mode on an iPhone XS.

Thank you, brain.

Many hearing implants won't help people with inner ear damage or auditory nerve problems, but the brainstem implants that do frequently do an incomplete job. Soon, however, there might be a far better... solution. Researchers have designed a conformab...

His technology platforms have benefited genomics, diagnostics, and drug screening.

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Based on new observations of super spiral galaxies, a team of scientists has found that they have massive dark matter halos that cause them to rotate much faster than our own! The post The Most... Massive Galaxies Spin More Than Twice as Fast as the Milky Way appeared first on Universe Today.

If there's any streaming service that can legitimately compete with the juggernaut that is Netflix, it's Disney+. Set to launch in just a few weeks, Disney+ will not only be extremely affordable at $7... a month, it will offer subscribers an absolute avalanche of media content. From beloved animation films of old to any Star Wars title you can think of, Disney+ will undoubtedly come out of the gate strong and will likely garner an impressive subscriber base in a relatively short period of time. Earlier this week, the official Disney+ Twitter account started tweeting out a list of all the movies and TV shows set to arrive on the streaming service in early November. And seeing as how Disney has been making movies since 1937, some of the titles Disney highlighted were so incredibly bizarre that...

If that image at the top of this post which late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel posted to his Twitter and Instagram feeds on Thursday doesn't immediately look familiar to you, count yourself lucky.... It means you somehow aren't aware yet of the latest face app to take the internet by storm -- it's called Gradient, and thanks to influencers and other social media mavens helping it along, it's been spreading across peoples' feeds in recent days thanks to its pretty simple conceit: Matching your face to that of your celebrity doppelganger. It's available for both iOS and Android devices, and it immediately calls to mind FaceApp -- the app that launched earlier this year and similarly turned into a viral hit thanks to the way it took a photo of you and did a creepily good job imagining what...

Two NASA astronauts successfully replaced a faulty battery charger during the agency's first all-female spacewalk Oct. 18, an event that at times appeared to go better in orbit than on the ground.... SpaceNews.com

Nanoleaf's Screen Mirror feature reflects what you see on your television or computer monitor on the light panels around you.

Following news about its plans, Alphabet’s Wing has started delivering small packages to people in Virginia using drones. The deliveries are made possible thanks to the company’s Air Carrier... Certificate received from the FAA, which officially makes Alphabet the first company to offer a commercial air delivery service to private residences in the US. The Wing drone deliveries are currently …

Demonstrators and police clashed in Lebanon on Thursday as thousands of people rallied against the government's handling of an economic crisis, in one of the biggest protests the country has seen in... years.

It's Google Books' 15th birthday, and the tech giant is celebrating it by giving the service a makeover. The redesigned version makes each title's most pertinent information easier to access -- and it... puts details in neat little boxes that make them...

The once-rare 'fabella' bone has made a dramatic resurgence in human knees, but who's likely to have a fabella or two -- and why?

Samsung has promised to provide a software update to fix the glaring security issue that allows users to bypass the fingerprint reader through using third-party screen protectors.

It seems that the foldable hype is showing no signs of slowing down just yet. The Huawei Mate X, for example, might finally see a launch in China before the month is over. Now it seems that Motorola... of all companies is getting ready to follow suit. At least that seems to be the suggestion of an invite for a …

Studying Samsung's patent activity is always a good way to get a sense of where its future smartphone technology and innovations might be headed, as the company rushes to put its stamp on all manner... of new designs and advancements before its rivals do. The documentation never points to guaranteed releases, but they do suggest potential avenues that Samsung's product roadmap might take as they reflect new form factors and features that could possibly end up making it into future handset releases. Divining the next direction Samsung will take is a bit of an art and a science. We reported earlier today about speculation that an upcoming Samsung phone (the Fold 2, but maybe not) would have a design breakthrough we've been waiting for -- an under-the-display selfie camera. Meanwhile, a patent...

Is our age of ubiquitous smartphones and social media turning into an era of mass civil unrest? Two years after holding an independence referendum and unilaterally declaring independence in defiance... of the Spanish state — then failing to gain recognition for la república and being forced to watch political leaders jailed or exiled — Catalonia’s […]