AT&T And Time Warner Win Legal Battle, Confirming The Merger
It's been years in the making, but the mammoth merger of AT&T and Time Warner Inc. is officially going to happen. Judge Richard Leon, a…
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Woman With Vial Of Moon Dust Is Proactively Suing NASA To Prevent Its Seizure
It should go without saying, but material from the Moon is pretty rare here on Earth. The Apollo astronauts brought a whole bunch of lunar…
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Astronomers Discover That The Sun Has To Deal With Shrinkage
The Sun is big. By volume, the Sun could fit roughly 1.3 million Earths inside of it, but new research suggests that our friendly star…
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Of Course Elon Musk's Flamethrower That's Totally Not A Flamethrower Is Already On eBay
The most annoying product ever to come out from an Elon Musk company is now in the hands of some 1,000 lucky buyers, with 19,000…
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Amazon Just Gave Prime Members Even Better Deals At Whole Foods
Since buying Whole Foods last year, Amazon has been working aggressively to get as many of its million of Prime members to shop in-store as…
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You Can Get A Free iPhone 8 From Best Buy Right Now, But You Might Have To Change Carriers
Best Buy has a new iPhone deal for you, a buy-one-get-one (BOGO) deal that lets you get two iPhones for the price of one. Apple's…
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FCC Chairman Celebrates The End Of Net Neutrality With More Lies
The FCC's abandonment of net neutrality laws, voted on last year, finally takes effect today. Nothing is likely to change overnight -- if nothing else,…
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Very Stable Genius Delivers Thousands Of Flamethrowers To Adoring Fans
There's no question that Elon Musk is one of the most important visionaries of our times. His work will contribute heavily to shaping up the…
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Salmonella Outbreak Hits Pre-Cut Melons Just In Time For Summer
In news that is sure to strike fear in the heart of fruit salad lovers everywhere, an outbreak of salmonella has been traced to pre-cut…
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When We Finally Find Aliens, We Might Find Their Garbage First
Searching for extraterrestrial civilizations isn't easy or we'd probably have already found a few. Traveling to other star systems in search of aliens would obviously…
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Apple Bans Crypto Mining On iPhones And iPads As Bitcoin Price Slumps Again
During its recent Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple quietly slipped some language into the App Store review guidelines that prevent anyone from using iPhones and iPads…
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Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam Is Stepping Down This Summer
Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam will be stepping down from his role in the company on August 1st, 2018, after exactly seven years at the helm…
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Next-Gen Apple Watch Design May Feature Solid State Buttons And A Bigger Display
An upcoming version of the Apple Watch will feature solid state buttons with haptic feedback courtesy of Apple's Taptic Engine, according to a new report…
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3-D Printed Houses Are Going From Hype To Habitable In The Netherlands
Although we've seen concepts and demonstrations of 3-D printed concrete houses in the past, there's a giant gulf between building one structure as a demonstration,…
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The FCC Has Officially Banned Phone Companies' Worst Trick
The Federal Communications Commission has voted through new rules that ban unauthorized charges on phone bills. In case you're thinking "wait, that was legal before?!"…
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Astronomers Spot A Trio Of Earth-Sized Planets Orbiting A Distant Star
Humanity is going to have to leave Earth eventually. We've already messed up our planet pretty badly, and even if we don't push the Earth…
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Hailstorm Sends American Airlines Jet Into Plunge Described As 'Five Minutes Of Hell'
We've all seen the statistics that tell us how safe flying is. It's safer than pretty much any kind of transportation, you're more likely to…
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Don't Live In The South If You Like Good Internet
Checking whether your new home has coverage from a good internet provider is one of the cardinal rules of buying a house these days. But…
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Researcher Discovers New Shrimp Species With Furry Feet, Names It After Bilbo Baggins
You really have to respect scientists when it comes to the incredible amount of effort it must take to discover, identify, and categorize and entirely…
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Paleontologists Uncover Oldest Footprints Ever, But They Don't Know What Made Them
Fossilized remains of ancient creatures are pretty hard to find, but fossilized footprints are even harder. For a footprint to survive millions and millions of…
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Oops! Facebook Changed 14 Million Users' Default Privacy Setting To Public
Facebook has been having a rough time with privacy and trust recently. Between the problem of fake news during the 2016 election, revelations about data-scraping…
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Google Could Face Yet Another Multi-Billion-Dollar Fine In Europe, This One For Android
About a year ago, Google received a massive antitrust fine in Europe for abusing its search dominance. The EU decided Google should pay €2.42 billion…
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New Lawsuit Claims Apple Watch Display Is Prone To Detaching For No Reason At All
As one of the most sued tech companies on the planet, Apple is certainly no stranger to class-action lawsuits. Over the past few months alone,…
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Scientists Just Discovered Something Very Special About Jupiter's Lightning
Jupiter is a massive, swirling mass of towering storm clouds, and anyone who lives on Earth knows that storms are fantastic at producing lightning. When…
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NASA Reveals That It's Found Organic Molecules On Mars That May Have Come From Life
Earlier this week NASA announced that it had something it wanted to tell us about Mars. Today, NASA scientists presented their findings in a pair…
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A Day Later, Some Comcast Phone Customers Still Don't Have Service
Yesterday, a nationwide outage affected Comcast phone customers, impacting service for customers in Denver, Atlanta, New York, San Francisco, Chicago,, Portland, Houston, Philadelphia, and Seattle. Although…
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Your Dog Could Be A Victim Of The Next Influenza Pandemic
Thanks to plenty of warnings from the medical community we're all pretty familiar with the ability of influenza viruses to jump from other animals to…
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