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. […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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, […]
After weeks of rumors and a counterattack by AMD’s Radeon, Nvidia is ending its mysterious, controversial GeForce Partner Program. “A lot has been said recently about our GeForce Partner Program,” Nvidia’s John Teeple wrote. “The rumors, conjecture and mistruths go far beyond its intent. Rather than battling misinformation, we have decided to cancel the program.” […]
With its suspended metallic spheres that clack back and forth, Newton’s cradle is more than a popular desktop plaything. It has taught a generation of students about conservation of momentum and energy. It is also the inspiration for an experiment Benjamin Lev, associate professor of physics and of applied physics at Stanford University, has created […]
