Uber is reportedly looking into buying Motivate, the company that makes Ford GoBike’s in the San Francisco Bay Area and Citi Bike over on the East Coast. This comes following reports of Lyft getting close to purchasing Motivate in a $250 million deal. Uber bought bike-share startup JUMP, a dockless, electric bike-share service, earlier this […]
“The Voice” judge Kelly Clarkson, who recently dropped 37 pounds, says exercising didn’t contribute to her weight loss. Instead, the 36-year-old star ‒ who has battled with her weight due to a thyroid condition, according to People ‒ said it was a book that turned her life around. “I literally read this book, and I […]
You’ve never seen a Russian Soyuz rocket launch quite like this. When the Russian space agency Roscosmos launched a Soyuz rocket Wednesday (June 6) to ferry a new crew to the International Space Station, it added a special treat: external cameras that beamed live views of Earth from space. “We’re actually getting a new view […]
Behold Summit, a new supercomputer capable of making 200 million billion calculations per second. It marks the first time in five years that a machine from the United States has been ranked as the world’s most powerful. The specs for this $200 million machine defy comprehension. Built by IBM and Nvidia for the US Department […]
Verizon has announced that Hans Vestberg, currently the company’s chief technology officer and VP of global networks, will become its next CEO and succeed current chief executive Lowell McAdam on August 1st. McAdam has led Verizon Communications — the parent company of Verizon Wireless, Verizon Fios, and other telecommunications subsidiaries — since 2011. He began […]
Scientists have developed an inexpensive blood test to predict a pregnant woman’s due date and possibly identify women who are at risk of giving birth prematurely. The research, which is still preliminary and involved small numbers of women, was led by a prominent pioneer in the field of genetic blood testing, Stephen Quake at Stanford […]
For the first time, scientists say they have clear evidence that the chemical building blocks of life exist on Mars. What they can’t say yet is whether there is, or ever was, life on the Red Planet. The new evidence comes from a pair of rocks. NASA’s six-wheeled Curiosity rover drilled into the planet in […]
Have you heard about the gig economy? It’s the future of work. The conventional 9-to-5 job is dying out, replaced by a system where workers rush to on-call jobs summoned via their smartphones. At least that’s what we thought, until the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) threw that narrative out the window today. The […]
General Electric, the company that brought you the light bulb and the toaster oven, wants to be a traffic cop for drones. GE (GE) formally launched a company on Thursday that plans to reinvent traffic management for unmanned aircraft. The venture, called AiRXOS, was created by GE about a year and a half ago and […]
Lifting weights might also lift moods, according to an important new review of dozens of studies about strength training and depression. It finds that resistance exercise often substantially reduces people’s gloom, no matter how melancholy they feel at first, or how often — or seldom — they actually get to the gym and lift. There […]
The Trump administration has vowed to make America great again in spaceflight, and the centerpiece of its space policy to date has been a re-prioritization of human spaceflight as central to NASA’s activities. As part of this initiative, the White House has sought to reduce funding for satellites to observe environmental changes on Earth and […]
Flying to the beach may be more expensive this summer. Rising fuel prices are pressuring airline profits. That means airlines will charge higher airfare. It’s difficult to predict how much more expensive seats will become or the timing of fare increases, but the message is the unanimous from the major carriers. “Consumers will pay more […]
