Blue Origin, the company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, has launched an investigation following an incident during its first crewed flight in two years, in which one of the parachutes on the New Shepard capsule failed to fully inflate.Rea…
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Lees meerIf you’re on the hunt for your next (or first) pair of wireless buds, you may be in for quite a bit of work. With dozens of options to choose from, choice paralysis is only natural. Read more...
Lees meerAfter a short visit to the Moon’s far side, a Chinese spacecraft loaded with lunar rock and dust has started its return trip to Earth to deliver these precious samples.Read more...
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Lees meerThe banking industry took its time to transition from paper bills to plastic cards. Now it’s in the midst of a more rapid transformation: going digital. Read more...
Lees meerAn internal Google database containing six years’ worth of potential privacy breaches and security issues was recently obtained, and reveals—among many other things—that a Google employee used their access to watch a private YouTube video uploaded b…
Lees meerMixing your long plane ride with alcohol could be a dangerous cocktail for your heart, new research out Monday suggests. The small trial found that healthy volunteers experienced a greater drop in their blood oxygen level and corresponding rise in h…
Lees meerMeta is testing unskippable Instagram ads, first reported by TechCrunch on Monday, alongside the patience of every user who has to put up with the feature. The unskippable ads, which some users shared their experience with on other social media plat…
Lees meerPresident Joe Biden vetoed a resolution late Friday that passed through both the U.S. House and Senate and was widely supported by the cryptocurrency industry. And it’s just the latest move from a president who’s put himself firmly in the crosshair…
Lees meerDoctor Who, like all science fiction, has always rooted its storytelling in allegory—raising ideas to challenge its contemporary audience through stories of the past, the future, of monsters, and running down hallways. It always makes the moments th…
Lees meerWhat’s the new word of the day, kids? It’s “ceraluminum,” a real nonsense nomenclature combining ceramic and aluminum. That’s the new word to describe the next-gen Asus Zenbook S16 powered with the new AMD Ryzen 300 AI CPUs. But let’s ignore that fo…
Lees meerThe New York tri-state area is poised to have some large eight-legged tourists this summer. Experts are warning that the invasive Joro spider (Trichonephila clavata) could soon touch down in parts of New York and New Jersey. Striking in color and si…
Lees meerThe Predator franchise is back once again, and now it’s got its new leading lady. Director Dan Trachtenberg, whose 2022 film Prey pumped new life into the sci-fi franchise, is making another standalone Predator film and Elle Fanning has now joined i…
Lees meerIt’s not surprising that a pristine example of Kenner’s notoriously rare Boba Fett action figure with “rocket-firing” action—never released to the public after being deemed a choking hazard—commanded a jaw-dropping sum at a recent auction. But $525,…
Lees meerHave you seen clips from a new documentary narrated by Tom Cruise called Olympics Has Fallen, a play on the title of the 2013 movie Olympus Has Fallen? The new film claims to document the corruption in the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris, France. Bu…
Lees meerThe PlayStation VR2 headset is finally being liberated from the confines of the PlayStation 5. Sony now has a $60 adapter that lets your $550 VR headset work with any of their Steam-based VR games. But hold off from slamming the buy button just yet.…
Lees meerThe New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) said it was investigating a technical issue on Monday morning that caused roughly a dozen stocks, including Chipotle and GameStop, to experience volatility halts, according to Bloomberg. Berkshire Hathaway and the …
Lees meerLego has been making Minecraft sets for years at this point, and of course, kids and adult fans of the crafting game megahit will have inevitably enjoyed all those sets. But it’s still interesting that it’s taken so long for Lego to bring the franch…
Lees meerSTEVE, a strange ribbon of purple and green haze discovered by citizen scientists in 2016, just got even weirder. While looking through archival data, a team of scientists discovered that the aurora-like phenomenon has a secret twin moving in the op…
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