Amazon Prime Is Getting More Expensive
During its Q1 2018 earnings call, Amazon CFO Brian Olsavsky told reporters that Amazon is increasing the price of its annual subscription from $99 per year…
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Amazon Shares Soar After Monster Earnings Report
Amazon's shares soared over 6 percent in after-hours trading, following a substantial earnings beat and a forecast for current-quarter growth that would defy all expectations.…
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Going To Mars Is Going To Cost A Lot Of Money That NASA Doesn't Have
If you've been following space, science, or even general technology news over the past few years you've heard a whole lot about Mars, as well…
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Fossilized Footprints Tell A Story Of How Our Ancestors Hunted Giant Sloths
There's plenty that archaeologists and paleontologists can learn from the bones and other artifacts left behind by ancient creatures and mankind's own ancestors. Researchers can…
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Apple Might Finally Fix iPhone Names This Year
This fall, Apple will launch three iPhone models, which we've been referring to as iPhone X successors when discussing rumors, as it's not clear what…
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This Bad Lip-Reading Of Mark Zuckerberg's Senate Testimony Is So Much Better Than The Real Thing
Earlier this month, Mark Zuckerberg completed Step 7 of the Tech Company Scandal Apology Tour by trekking to Capitol Hill to be interrogated by lawmakers.…
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The European Space Agency Just Released The Most Detailed Map Of The Milky Way Ever Constructed
You might think of our Solar System as a pretty special place — and considering it's produced the only known example of life, that's probably…
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No, Apple Didn't Deliver A 'KO Punch' To Android With The iPhone X
Whether the iPhone X is a major win for Apple or a tremendous flop is one of the most hotly-debated questions in the technology industry…
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Human Bones Were Some Of The Best Weapons In Ancient New Guinea
Mankind has a habit of getting into conflicts. Even our earliest human ancestors found ways to make weapons out of whatever was lying around, and…
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Report: Huawei Is Now Under Criminal Investigation In The US
So far, 2018 has been a bad year for Chinese technology companies in the US. January started with the news that the US government had…
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Amazon Just Quietly Confirmed The Fire TV Cube, A Next-Gen Streaming Device
Last September, AFTVnews showed off two unreleased Fire TV streaming devices that Amazon had yet to announce. One appeared to dangle from the television by a…
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Museum Realizes Fake 'Elephant Bird' Egg Is Actually Real
The elephant bird of Madagascar have been extinct for hundreds of years and as such it's pretty difficult (read: impossible) to find an elephant bird…
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OnePlus Forgot To Mention The Notch In Its 'Honest Design' Story
The OnePlus 6 is a few weeks away, which means we've reached peak OnePlus 6 teaser. But rather than having to wait, we already have…
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Deutsche Bank Says Apple Made A Big Mistake By Pricing The HomePod At $349
While it may be too soon to emphatically categorize Apple's HomePod as a flop -- especially with a more affordable version reportedly in the works…
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MIT Researchers Invented A Way To Use Water Droplets As A Computer Interface
Water and computing don't normally mix — unless you've got a water cooling system in your wicked sweet gaming PC, but I digress — but…
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How To Use Google's Refreshed Chrome UI Right Now, Before Anyone Else
Google is a dominant force in nearly every area of its business. It all started with Google Search, of course, and the company's search engine…
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New Study Suggests Kids Are Basically Superhuman
Nobody really looks back on themselves as an eight-year-old and thinks that they were at their peak in terms of physical performance, but a new…
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Scientists Just Figured Out What Uranus Smells Like, And The Jokes Write Themselves
Uranus isn't the most popular place in the Solar System. It's a cold, harsh world, and it hasn't been studied nearly as much as some…
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This Is What Facebook Won't Let You Post
Despite the fact that Facebook is the largest social network in the world, it often operates as a nearly opaque box. There's no oversight of…
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You Can Now Have Your Amazon Prime Deliveries Left Inside Your Car
You don't get to 100 million Amazon Prime members without providing your customers plenty of reasons to keep paying that yearly subscription fee, and that's…
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The DoJ's Corruption Investigation Of Verizon And AT&T Could Save Us From A Sprint-T-Mobile Merger
Late last week, news broke that the Department of Justice is investigating possible collusion between Verizon, AT&T, and industry body the GSMA to keep eSIMs…
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Asteroid Mining Will Produce The World's First Trillionaire, According To Goldman Sachs
There's lots of ways to make money here on planet Earth, but the world's first trillionaire is going to make their fortune in space. That's…
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The iPhone X Is Being Outsold By A 4-Year-Old iPhone Design
In the leadup to the iPhone X reveal last year, analysts were visibly salivating at the prospect of an iPhone upgrade "supercycle," a tidal wave…
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Scientists Grow Diamonds That Can Bend And Stretch Like Rubber
Diamond is one of the hardest materials on the planet. Created under extreme pressure, the crystals are used in all manner of applications where rigidity…
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Apple's Acquisition Of Shazam Is At Risk Due To A New Antitrust Investigation
Apple's acquisition of music recognition service Shazam, a deal reportedly worth $400 million, could be at risk after EU antitrust regulators announced Monday that they've…
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What In The World Did NASA Just Spot In The Arctic Sea Ice?
Every year, NASA takes a high-flying trip over the Arctic to monitor the ice and gather information on the area where people almost never tread.…
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Amazon Reportedly Working On Personal Robots For Your Home
Just four years after kicking off the smart speaker craze with the Echo, Amazon is reportedly building robots for the home as its next major…
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