Timelapse of a “persistently shadowed” crater on Ceres. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA You thought those bright spots on dwarf planet Ceres were cool? That was only the half of it. Ceres is also covered in dark spots, craters that—because …
Lees meerFacebook returned to President-elect Trump’s 5th Avenue lair today, but you won’t hear the company talk about it. Joel Kaplan, Facebook’s Vice President of public policy was meeting with Trump himself to discuss...well, Facebook declined to comment …
Lees meerRogue One is hitting theaters, and with its release, we now have an “official” answer to how Princess Leia received the plans to the Death Star in A New Hope. In years past, however, when the old Expanded Universe flourished, there was another expla…
Lees meerUber may have already jumped into the logistics and trucking business with its purchase of Otto's self-driving truck platform, but as one of the biggest shippers in the country, Amazon can't afford to sit back on its heels. As Business Insi…
Lees meerYou can count on BMW to introduce fascinating concepts, and many even make it into production, such as its ConnectedDrive personal assistant app. Others, like the motorcycle that balances itself so well drivers don't need a helmet, are prob…
Lees meerImage: APAfter steadfastly denying it has a problem with fake news, Facebook is finally admitting it does, in fact, have a problem with fake news. Today, it announced several specific ways in which it will try to fix these thorny issues. Read more...
Lees meerGM isn't wasting much time now that Michigan has cleared some of the legal hurdles to testing self-driving cars in the state. Effective "immediately," the car giant will start testing autonomous rides on Michigan's public roads -- that inc…
Lees meerYou no longer have to be a Stradivarius, a Gibson, or even a Steinway to make your own musical instruments. Anyone with access to a 3D printer and this simple software, developed by Autodesk Research, can turn any 3D model into a wind instrument cap…
Lees meerImages: Alex Cranz/GizmodoBack in April, I dropped $230 on a gadget that had me feeling that gadget love again. You’re familiar with the feeling too; the thrill you get walking into a Sharper Image store or thumbing through a Hammacher Schlemmer cat…
Lees meerThis is a blurred press photo of Howie Mandel. Because we’re not going to post actual revenge porn Image: Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/APIf there are two things in this world I know to be true it’s that most people have the capacity for evil, and…
Lees meerBlackBerry's days of making its own smartphones are over, and that means it's time to hand the responsibilities over to someone else. The Canadian company has reached a "long-term" deal with TCL (which repurposed Alcatel phones as the Blac…
Lees meerIf you were hoping that Verizon's decision against disabling the Galaxy Note 7 would give you a long while to use the ill-fated smartphone, you're in for some disappointment. The carrier has revealed that it's pushing the phone-crippling u…
Lees meerSuper Mario Run is finally here. Announced in September, it is the first time that Nintendo’s most famous character will have a game on smartphones, and it’s exclusive to the iPhone and iPad.Read more...
Lees meerNintendo might have some big surprises in store when it sheds more light on the Switch game console in January. NeoGAF forum member Rösti has noticed a slew of just-published patent applications for the hybrid system, and one of them h…
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Lees meerRussian president Vladimir Putin personally oversaw the cyber attacks on the United States' political infrastructure this year, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said today in a press conference attended by the AP. This follows yeste…
Lees meerImage: GettyOn Thursday, Donald Trump officially nominated Ryan Zinke—Montana congressman, former Navy SEAL commander, and human thumb—as his pick for Secretary of the Interior. Read more...
Lees meerTwitter is still determined to avoid facilitating mass surveillance by spies and law enforcement. The company has told Dataminr, a firm it partly owns, to stop sharing tweets with the 77 law enforcement fusion centers (that is, data hubs w…
Lees meerNew York already passed legislation banning the use of ticket buying bots, but President Obama has just made the ban a nationwide law. Today, the president signed the "Better Online Ticket Sales (BOTS) Act of 2016" which makes it illegal to…
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