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Facebook Releases New App Similar To Pinterest
Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has released a new app that some are saying is remarkably similar to Pinterest. The new app is called Hobbi and it is an editor and organizer for hobbies and projects that the user is interested in.... More of this article »
Coronavirus Outbreak Prompts Chinese Drone Deployment
Chinese authorities are now deploying drones to help in the fight against the new coronavirus outbreak. Videos have emerged on the Twitter-like Chinese social media platform Weibo of interactions between citizens and the unmanned... More of this article »
Landmine Use Restrictions Lightened
A ban on the U.S. military’s use of anti-personnel land mines outside of the Korean Peninsula has been lightened by the Trump administration. A new Defense Department policy will be released detailing out how and when U.S. military commanders... More of this article »
Astronauts Fix Space Station’s Antimatter Detector
Spacewalking astronauts finished repairs on a cosmic ray detector outside the International Space Station this weekend. The spacewalk officially started about 15 minutes late, at 7:04 a.m. EST (1204 GMT) Saturday and concluded... More of this article »
Fake Draft Texts Prompt Warning From Military
The U.S. Army is warning Americans about a wave of “fraudulent text messages” being sent that falsely say that they’ve been drafted into military service. The messages appear to have been sent to individuals nationwide... More of this article »
Facebook Buys Cloud Gaming Startup PlayGiga
Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has announced its acquisition of PlayGiga, a Madrid-based company that specializes in cloud gaming. A Facebook spokesperson asked to comment on the purchase said, “We’re thrilled to welcome PlayGiga... More of this article »
3-Digit Suicide Prevention Hotline In The Works
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has unanimously voted to proceed with a proposal to set up a new hotline for suicide prevention and mental health. The proposal calls for the agency to set up a 3-digit number, similar... More of this article »
U.S. Navy Places Nuclear Submarine Order Worth $22 Billion
The U.S. Navy has announced the awarding of the largest shipbuilding contract in the service’s history. The Navy will spend about $22 billion to purchase nine new nuclear-powered Virginia-class submarines, with an option of... More of this article »
SpaceX Starship Fails During Test
SpaceX’s Starship rocket prototype suffered considerable damage after experiencing a major failure during scheduled pressurization testing. The Starship Mk-1 prototype partially burst apart during ground tests at the company’s... More of this article »
Concerns Raised Over Army’s TikTok Recruiting
Lawmakers are expressing concerns that the U.S. Army is using the massively popular Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok to recruit young people into the military. The Army launched a social media blitz this... More of this article »
AT&T Fined $60 Million Over ‘Unlimited Data’ Throttling
The Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) that will see the company pay $60 million to settle allegations that the company unlawfully throttled customers’ data. The settlement resolves a... More of this article »
Samsung Beats Estimates For Third Quarter
Samsung Electronics Co. posted better-than-expected earnings for the third quarter of its fiscal year. The South Korean company posted net income of 6.1 trillion won ($5.2 billion) for the September quarter, higher than the 5.5... More of this article »
Twitter Misses On Third Quarter Revenue Estimates
Product problems and advertising issues weighed on Twitter Inc.’s (NYSE: TWTR) revenue in the third quarter of its fiscal year. The company reported earnings of 17 cents per share on revenue of $823.7 million for the quarter,... More of this article »
IBM Posts Mixed Quarterly Results
International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) beat on income but missed on revenue for the latest quarter. The company reported that net income was $1.67 billion, or $1.87 per share, in the quarter, down from $2.69 billion,... More of this article »
Meat Created In Space For First Time
Aleph Farms, an Israeli food company, has announced that it has been able to successfully create meat in space. Aleph Farms collaborated with Russian company 3D Bioprinting Solutions and two U.S.-based food companies to test its... More of this article »
Marshalls Opens First Online Store
You can now shop at Marshalls from the comfort of your own couch. Marshalls’ first e-commerce store is now live and open for business. TJX Companies (NYSE: TJX), which is also the parent company of T.J. Maxx, HomeGoods,... More of this article »
Lockheed Martin Wins New NASA Contract
NASA and Lockheed Martin Corp. (NYSE: LMT) have announced the finalization of a contract for the production and operations of six Orion Multipurpose Crew Vehicles (MPCV), with up to twelve being manufactured in total. The Orion... More of this article »
Google Settles French Tax Probe
Google has settled a fiscal fraud probe in France after years of fighting with tax authorities over the matter. As part of the settlement, Google agreed to pay more than a billion dollars to French authorities, comprising a $549... More of this article »
Iran Claims Rocket Responsible For Explosion
Iran has now acknowledged for the first time that a rocket exploded at the nation’s Imam Khomeini Space Center last week. Commercially available satellite images taken of the site after the incident showed a black plume of smoke... More of this article »
U.S. Cyber Attack Cripples Iran Capabilities
The U.S. Cyber Command has caused considerable damage to Iran’s cyber capabilities with a retaliatory strike after the Islamic Republic shot down an American drone. The June 20th attack brought down a database used by its Revolutionary... More of this article »
Massive Trove Of Facebook User Data Found On Amazon’s Cloud
Researchers have found a huge collection of data on Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) users on Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) cloud computing servers. According to cybersecurity firm UpGuard, third-party Facebook app developers stored... More of this article »
Jury Says Apple Owes Qualcomm $31M
Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) has won a significant victory in its ongoing legal battles with Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), after a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California found that Apple had infringed... More of this article »
Fitbit Announces New Spring 2019 Models
Fitbit Inc. (NYSE: FIT) is taking steps to get more users on its platform and one of those steps is to give customers more options. As part of that goal, the company has announced the launch of four new devices for Spring 2019:... More of this article »
Alphabet’s Waymo To Begin Selling LIDAR Sensors
Alphabet Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOGL) self-driving car unit, Waymo, has announced plans to begin selling its laser-mapping sensors to other companies. According to a Waymo spokesperson, the company is now in talks with dozens... More of this article »
New Method Turns CO2 Gas Into Solid Carbon
In a new breakthrough discovery, scientists have found a way to turn CO2 gas into solid flakes of carbon. A research team led by RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, created a method that uses liquid metal electrolysis as... More of this article »
New Software Writes Convincing Fake News Articles
A new software program has been developed that can produce authentic-looking fake news with just a few pieces of information. Created by OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research group co-founded by billionaire Elon Musk, the software... More of this article »
FaceTime Bug Causing Big Problems For Apple
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has issued a statement saying that it is fixing a bug in FaceTime that allows eavesdroppers to listen in on calls and see through front-facing cameras secretly. The issue was brought to the public’s... More of this article »
YouTube Making Changes To Its Recommendation Algorithm
After years of being accused of exposing people to misleading information, YouTube – a division of Alphabet Inc.’s Google – has announced that it is retooling its recommendation algorithm to prevent the promotion of false information.... More of this article »
Facebook Finds More Russian-linked Accounts To Block
Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has announced the removal of hundreds of Russia-initiated accounts from its platform after the social network detected “coordinated inauthentic behavior” from them. The social media company wrote... More of this article »
New Software Targets Streaming Service Password Sharing
Streaming service users who share passwords may soon be in for a rude awakening. A new service from U.K.-based software maker Synamedia has been unveiled that uses machine learning to detect shared passwords on these types of... More of this article »
Hundreds Of German Politicians Hacked
The data of hundreds of Germany’s most powerful leaders was posted online in the days before Christmas. Some of the stolen information was freely available online for weeks before the attack came to prominence. Politicians... More of this article »
911 Call From Space Station Sparks NASA Response
A 911 from space had security teams at NASA’s Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas in a scramble to respond. Dutch astronaut André Kuipers accidentally called 911 from the International Space Station when making a call... More of this article »
AT&T Facing Criticism For ‘5G E’ Plan
AT&T (NYSE: T) phones will start showing a controversial “5G E” icon in the coming months. The company announced that it will be replacing the LTE indicator on its smartphones with a 5G E symbol in markets that support... More of this article »
ISS Gets Christmas Delivery From SpaceX
A special delivery has arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) just in time for the holidays. A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship delivered more than 5,600 pounds of fresh supplies, including a variety of holiday treats. The spacecraft... More of this article »
Amazon Expands Cashierless Technology Testing
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has expanded the testing of its cashierless checkout technology. The online retail giant is reportedly experimenting with the technology in Seattle, Washington in a large space formatted like a big store.... More of this article »
Facebook Debuts New Portal Smart Displays
Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has debuted its new Portal products, a line of smart displays enhanced for video calling. The company says that the Portal is designed to bring you closer to your closest Facebook contacts, providing you... More of this article »
EU Court: British Surveillance Violated Human Rights
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that British surveillance programs are in violation of provisions in the European Convention on Human Rights. The court found the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) had failed... More of this article »
China Accused Of Recruiting Spies On LinkedIn
China has been accused of using fake LinkedIn accounts to recruit spies in the United States that have government intel. The suspected targets include experts in the fields of supercomputing, semi-conductors, green energy, health care,... More of this article »
Qualcomm Ends Quest To Acquire NXP
Qualcomm has announced that it will end its pursuit of NXP Semiconductors, a Dutch company known for automotive and IoT chips. Qualcomm bid $44 billion for the company in February, but the deal failed to win the necessary approvals... More of this article »
Alphabet Subsidiary Loon Spreading Internet Access By Balloon
Alphabet subsidiary Loon has announced it’s partnering with Telkom Kenya to bring internet access to remote regions of rural Kenya. With the new partnership, Telkom Kenya will provide the internet signals, and Loon will help those... More of this article »
California Passes Sweeping Consumer Privacy Bill
California Gov. Jerry Brown has approved a sweeping consumer privacy bill that is considered to be the toughest in the nation. California lawmakers unanimously passed the measure before sending it to the governor’s desk. State Sen.... More of this article »
Private Investigators Make Public Plea For DNA Data
A number of private investigators are spearheading a call for people to contribute their genetic information to a public genealogy database to help solve cold cases. The idea is to get people to transfer profiles compiled by commercial... More of this article »
Search Ends For Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
A private hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 will end roughly four years after the plane’s disappearance. The Malaysia Airlines jet vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board in March 2014. The... More of this article »
China Sends Communications Satellite To Moon’s Dark Side
China has launched a relay communication satellite in the first step of a mission to probe the far side of the moon. The satellite was launched with the Long March 4C rocket from the LC-3 pad at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center... More of this article »
Crash Disrupts I.R.S. Website On Tax Day
The Internal Revenue Service’s website suffered a systemwide computer failure on the last day for taxpayers to pay their 2017 taxes without a penalty or extension. The website malfunction began in the early hours of Tuesday morning.... More of this article »
Planned Space Hotel Gets Closer To Becoming A Reality
Houston-based Orion Span is attempting to develop the “first luxury hotel in space”. The company’s planned Aurora Station is being designed to appeal to those who are passionate about space and astronomical study. Company officials... More of this article »
The Boring Company Announces Plans For Recycled Tunnel Material
The Boring Company will soon be re-selling the rocks excavated as part of its massive tunneling projects. Founder Elon Musk described the bricks as “Lifesize LEGO-like interlocking bricks made from tunneling rock that you can use... More of this article »
First Self-driving Car Pedestrian Fatality Reported
An Arizona pedestrian has been killed by a self-driving Uber car. The pedestrian, Elaine Herzberg, 49, was struck and killed at the intersection of Mill Avenue and Curry Road in Tempe by a Volvo XC90 operating in “autonomous mode”.... More of this article »