This may be the ultimate galactic obstacle course. NASA’s long-running Cassini space probe is having one final hurrah when it begins a new orbit that will allow the spacecraft to graze Saturn’s rings before it makes a deadly dive into the planet next September. Cassini will circle over the poles […]
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Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has worst coral die-off ever Scientists confirm a mass bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef this year has killed more corals than ever before, with more than two thirds destroyed across large swathes of the biodiverse site. Video provided by AFP Newslook One of the […]
SAN FRANCISCO — The Snowden Effect continues with a new law in the United Kingdom requiring all web and phone companies in the United Kingdom to store users’ web browsing histories for 12 months and give police, security services and government agencies access to the data. The Investigatory Powers Act […]
The Internet Archive, a nonprofit that saves copies of old web pages, is creating a backup of its database in Canada, in response to the election of Donald Trump. “On November 9th in America, we woke up to a new administration promising radical change,” the organization wrote in a blogpost […]
Japan spending $173M on world’s fastest supercomputer The international supercomputer race may soon have a new contender: Japan is reportedly eyeing the world’s fastest-ever machine. Reuters this week revealed the country’s plans to spend ¥19.5 billion ($173 million) on the construction of a machine capable of making 130 quadrillion calculations […]
The incident comes a little more than a month after a similar assault on connected devices worldwide that led to a massive denial-of-service attack that took down a number of high-profile web services for users mainly in the U.S. and Europe. Deutsche Telekom said on Monday that its initial investigation […]
Bored while you wait for someone to text back? Now you can challenge friends for high scores on Facebook Messenger’s new Instant Games, like Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Words With Friends Frenzy. Available right from your message threads, they load in seconds since they’re built on the HTML5 mobile web […]
Nexus 4 expiration delayed with CyanogenMod 14.1 Nougat Market analysts would say that the average turnover rate for most smartphones is two years, which is exactly how long most contracts last anyway. That is true even for Google’s Nexus devices. In that sense, the Nexus 4, launched way back in […]
MacBook Pro 13-inch with Touch Bar review Have you grown bored of seeing your local Starbucks awash in silver, mid-sized laptops, all sporting that glowing Apple logo? We don’t blame you. Apple has remained committed to the MacBook Pro’s design over the last four years, counting on engineering excellence to […]
Thanksgiving Day Online Shopping Blew Past $1 Billion Online spending by U.S. bargain hunters climbed to above $1 billion by Thanksgiving evening, according to Adobe Digital Index, surging almost 14% from a year ago and reflecting a broader trend away from brick-and-mortar shopping. At the start of the first holiday […]
