NASA’s newest planet-hunting telescope is officially at work. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which is designed to hunt for alien worlds around stars not too far from the sun, began gathering science data Wednesday (July 25), members of the instrument team announced yesterday (July 27). TESS will send that initial data to Earth in […]
The movie theater ticket app MoviePass suffered an outage Thursday when its parent company couldn’t afford to pay for its customers’ tickets, CNN reported. That parent company, Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc., never paid the contractors who process their customers’ payments, so the contractors stopped processing them, leaving MoviePass customers unable to purchase tickets. The […]
Variety reports that Walmart has moved another step closer to its rumored plans for a low-price streaming service for “middle America”—you know, because nobody in Indiana has a Netflix account. The retail mega-giant has just hired Mark Greenberg, former CEO of Epix (it’s a cable network) in order to help tease out the feasibility of […]
Almost everyone loves a good vegemite and cheddar sandwich or some brie with a glass of wine. But the evidence seems to shift about whether or not cheese should be part of a healthy diet. Most types of cheese contain salt and saturated fat, but it’s also high in protein and calcium, so what’s the […]
Most of the world got to see a spectacular event in the sky Friday. The moon turned “blood red” in a total lunar eclipse for an hour and 43 minutes — the longest of the century. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth passes between the sun and the moon, casting a deep shadow over […]
In the past several months, some social-media users have threatened to #DeleteFacebook, but is anyone actually following through? Facebook lost about $120 billion in market capitalization Thursday, after the company’s guidance came in behind most analysts’ expectations. Facebook FB, -0.78% said it’s adding new users at a slower pace. The company reported a drop of […]
President Donald Trump told talk show host Sean Hannity that he could imagine the economy growing at 8 or 9 percent on Friday — just hours after the Bureau of Economic Analysis showed that the GDP rose 4.1 percent in the second quarter. The president said that the gains could come from cutting the nation’s […]
Analysts called it the biotech catalyst of the summer. But as we often see with trials of Alzheimer’s disease drugs, it turned out to raise more questions than provide answers. Biogen and Eisai’s experimental Alzheimer’s therapy, dubbed BAN2401, was shown to slow the cognitive declines associated with Alzheimer’s disease — such as memory loss and […]
Every two years or so, the sun, Earth, and Mars line up — and that’s what is happening now. It’s a celestial orientation known as Mars opposition. Leaving aside any significance this might have for astrologers, from an astronomical point of view there’s one thing you can say for sure about this Mars opposition: Mars […]
Amazon reported a huge beat on profits but a narrow miss on revenue for its second-quarter earnings on Thursday. Amazon stock is up roughly 3 percent in extended trading. Here are the most important numbers: EPS: $5.07 vs. $2.50, as estimated, according to Thomson Reuters Revenue: $52.9 billion vs. $53.41 billion, as estimated, according to […]
Facebook shares dropped 18.96 percent Thursday in a dramatic slide a day after the social media giant released an underwhelming quarterly earnings report. This drop wipes out $100 billion from the company’s market cap, according to Birinyi Associates. Facebook’s plunge was the biggest one-day drop in value for any publicly traded company. Facebook shares closed […]
Hopes are rising again for a drug to alter the course of Alzheimer’s disease after decades of failures. An experimental therapy slowed mental decline by 30 percent in patients who got the highest dose in a mid-stage study, and it removed much of the sticky plaque gumming up their brains, the drug’s makers said Wednesday. […]
