Companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have proven to us that we can trust them with our personal data. Now it’s time to reward that trust by giving them complete control over our computers, toasters, and cars. WHAT IS EDGE COMPUTING? In the beginning, there was One Big Computer. Then, in the Unix era, we […]
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Search for aliens started by Zuckerberg, Hawking ramps up
The Breakthrough Listen initiative, an effort backed Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to find signs of alien intelligence, just got way better hearing aids. The project, which also had support from legendary physicist Steven Hawking, has begun a new push to survey millions of stars in the Milky Way for signals picked up by extraterrestrial technology. […]
First launch of enhanced version of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 set for Thursday
The launch of Bangladesh’s first communications satellite on top of a new version of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is set for Thursday, officials said Monday, after a data review following a hold-down engine firing last week. SpaceX confirmed the target launch date in a tweet Monday, and the launch window Thursday opens at 4:12 p.m. […]
Fortnite is the biggest game on the planet right now because it’s a living, breathing world
When Epic Games revealed the big surprise of Fortnite’s fourth season earlier this week, fans could both see it coming and retain that giddy kid-on-Christmas-morning feeling. The developer planned the reveal for months: a meteor in the sky hovered over the game’s map since January, and on Tuesday it crashed into the world of Fortnite […]
Steve Jobs introduced the original iMac 20 years ago today and helped save Apple in the process
20 years ago today, Steve Jobs introduced the original Bondi Blue iMac to the world and forever changed the course of Apple history. While Apple today has more money than it knows what to do with, Apple back in 1998 was in a completely different financial situation. If you recall, Apple during the late 90s […]
Apple Warns iPhones Have A Serious Problem
Apple AAPL +3.91% has big plans for new iPhones in 2018, but before it can fully concentrate on a potential game changer the company needs to stop iOS repeatedly breaking current models. The latest problem of which Apple has now quietly acknowledged… In a leaked internal document attained by the ever-reliable MacRumors, Apple is warning […]
Google Vs Facebook who win in privacy policy
We as a whole love free products and hello, in the event that we need to surrender some data about ourselves in exchange for those products, that is only the cost of free, correct? Be that as it may, at that point, once our data was traded off in the latest Facebook information spills, we […]
SpaceX Dragon Capsule Returns to Earth from Space Station
A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship is returning to Earth today (May 5) with more than 2 tons of NASA gear from the International Space Station. The capsule’s splashdown capped a busy day for NASA, which began its weekend with a launch to Mars. The Dragon capsule left the space station this morning at 9:23 a.m. […]
Beware WhatsApp users! Black dot prank message can actually crash app
If you own a smartphone, there’s a high chance you also use WhatsApp to stay connected with your friends and family. There are more than 1.5 billion users around the world and more than 60 billion messages are shared on the platform every day. But one particular message got our attention after it went viral […]
Facebook only checks for impostors within your circle of friends
When you go to Face Recognition in Facebook’s Settings page, there’s a link that leads you to more info about it that says switching it on can “help protect you from strangers using a photo of you as their profile picture.” That pertains to a feature Facebook launched in March that’s supposed to tip it […]
GameCube Classic Edition? It can be done! But not cheaply …
Nintendrew, the YouTube Nintendo enthusiast/all-star, whipped up a “Nintendo 64 Classic Edition” last June. Naturally, the reply was: “Now do a GameCube.” Well, now he has. Drew isn’t just going for a chassis at the same scale as the two Classic Editions that Nintendo has made to date. He tried to make mini-GameCube that could […]
Google News is getting a revamp with more video and faster load times
Google is giving Google News a redesign that will bring in elements from its Newsstand app and YouTube, according to sources who spoke with AdAge. The redesign is expected to debut at Google I/O next week, and the sources say that Google has been in talks with publishers as of late about the impending changes, […]