New Telescope Camera Snaps Gorgeous Image Of Distant Star Cluster
NASA regularly delivers outer space eye candy snapped with its various telescopes, but the European Southern Observatory has plenty of star-gazing power as well, and…
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PayPal Just Demanded Payment From A Dead Woman
PayPal has never had a reputation for being a particularly upstanding organization to deal with, but its latest public misstep shows that there is nothing…
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The Oldest Known Color Made By A Living Creature On Earth Is Not What You'd Guess
Today, when you look around the Earth, you see a lot of green. It's easy to imagine that things were the same before humans or…
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Average Internet Speeds Rose 23 Percent Last Year
With Google Fiber's public mission to destroy the cable companies on hold and 5G networks properly launching only in 2019, you'd be forgiven for thinking…
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You Still Have Time To Get 10% Almost Any Electronics On eBay
The shopping event of the summer that many of you are waiting for is just around the corner. Prime Day 2018 kicks off on Monday,…
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Cox Reps Stole Personal Information And Created Fake Accounts, Whistleblower Claims
By this point, we're certainly not shocked by allegations that telecoms salespeople lie to customers, add services to accounts without permission, and generally do anything…
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Exclusive: Apple To Deploy 1Password To All 123,000 Employees, Acquisition Talks Underway
Apple acquires an average of 15 to 20 companies a year, according to CEO Tim Cook. Of that number, we only hear about a couple,…
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Tesla Commits To 500,000-Car Factory In China As Tarrifs Kick In
Tesla CEO and wannabe cave diver Elon Musk was in Shanghai on Tuesday to secure a deal with Chinese authorities to build an ambitious new…
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Video Captures Fireball Streaking Across The Midwestern US, Visible From 10 States
Skywatchers in 10 states in the Midwestern United States got a treat early on Sunday evening as a fireball careened through the atmosphere and produced…
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China Central Bank Brags About Killing Bitcoin Trading In The Country
Bitcoin had a fantastic run last year, but the fun only lasted until January 2018 when a variety of factors contributed to Bitcoin's massive fall.…
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The Brightest Object In The Universe Was Just Discovered, But Is It Still There?
Space is dark, which makes finding bright things like stars pretty darn easy. It also makes it possible for high-powered telescopes to spot things that…
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Check Out The Insane Heat Shield NASA Just Installed On The Parker Solar Probe
The Parker Solar Probe is going to get close to the Sun than any spacecraft mankind has ever launched into space. It's going to study…
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Twitter Swung The Ban Hammer 70 Million Times In The Last Two Months
Twitter and bots are like flies and horse manure, and anyone who has spent more than one month on President Trump's favorite social media platform…
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Apple Music Is Reportedly Bigger Than Spotify In The United States Now
Despite launching nearly four years later, Apple Music's subscriber count has reportedly surpassed that of Spotify. Citing a source said to be a US-based distributor,…
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Scientists Just Discovered That Spiders Can Fly Using Electricity, Spawning Fresh Nightmare Fuel
Some animals were born to fly, but most were not. Humans have no business in the air but we've come up with a number of…
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Against All Odds, NASA May Have Actually Found A Meteorite On The Bottom Of The Ocean
Three days ago, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration teamed up with NASA in the hopes of finding leftover chunks of a meteorite…
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Man, Space Is Huge
Size is relative. A carpenter ant is huge compared to a regular ant, but it's still tiny when compared to, say, your foot. The challenge…
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Insiders Say They Designed Social Media To Be 'Behavioral Cocaine'
One of the recurring quotes often delivered with humorous resignation by a member of the Bluth family on Arrested Development was the perennially meme-able line,…
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NASA Is About To Test 'Quiet' Sonic Booms Over Texas
Humans have already mastered the art of going really really fast in the sky, and modern technology has made topping the speed of sound a…
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T-Mobile Sprint Merger Could Be A Threat To National Security, Lawmakers Say
There's plenty of reasons why you wouldn't want T-Mobile's merger with Sprint to go through with zero restrictions, but if concerns about reduced competition, higher…
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Why Did Cord-Cutting Just Get More Expensive?
People are ditching cable and signing up for live-streaming services at an unprecedented rate right now. It's a mixed bag for the industry: Although the…
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Outer Space Has Way Better Fireworks Than We Ever Will
Well, it's the Fourth of July, which means sunburns, cookouts, and lots of questionable fuses being lit from coast to coast. But whether you'll be…
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Happy Fourth Of July From The International Space Station!
The International Space Station is, as its name implies, a common ground for astronauts from many different countries, but that doesn't stop them from having…
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Amazon Could Start Selling Cheap Drugs 'Right Away,' Experts Think
Hot on the heels of #disrupting the grocery world by purchasing Whole Foods, Amazon is dipping its toes into the US healthcare market with a…
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NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Just Got Closer To Dwarf Planet Ceres Than Ever Before, And Here's What It Looks Like
NASA's Dawn spacecraft is one that we don't hear from very often these days, mainly because it spent seven years on its way to dwarf…
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NASA's Latest Photo Of Jupiter Is Pretty Enough To Be Your Desktop Wallpaper
Jupiter is the largest planet in our Solar System by a pretty wide margin, and while it's not exactly the most welcoming to human visitors,…
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If This Rumor Is Right, Apple's 2019 iPhones Will Get 5G Before Almost Anyone Else
After years of hype, we're approaching the final stretch before 5G networks are going to stop being a bluster and start being a deliciously gigabit-speed…
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