[ad_1] Content As we knew, Captain Marvel will be a streaming exclusive on Disney+ from day one, and the company said all of the Cars movies will be there also. Disney also showed off the Falcon & Winter Soldier spinoff show we’d heard about, and revealed a new show from Jeff Goldblum produced by National […]
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Falcon Heavy successfully lifts off for the second time
[ad_1] SpaceX launched its Falcon Heavy rocket on Thursday evening, following a one-day delay due to inclement weather. The plan is for the rocket’s side boosters and central core stage to return to Earth, which will be particularly challenging. Space X failed on the center core part during last year’s launch. If they are successful […]
Disney will ‘likely’ offer a discounted Disney+, ESPN+ and Hulu bundle
[ad_1] We haven’t heard exactly how much Disney will charge for its streaming service, but at today’s investor event its Direct to Consumer president Kevin Mayer announced an interesting note about its plans. Whatever it costs, you will “likely” be able to get a discount once it launches later this year by subscribing to a […]
BBC Music is available in the US, but only on the web
[ad_1] BBC Music will soon add content produced in the US, too. “There’s a huge amount of great music being produced in the US right now, and we’re excited to help connect those artists to our vast, music-hungry audience,” said Simon Frantz, the BBC’s US features managing editor. The BBC Music app, which launched in […]
Uber files for its IPO and faces the past
[ad_1] Ten years after the company was founded, Uber is finally ready to go public. The company revealed its S-1 filing for an IPO this afternoon, and as such opened up more information to everyone about its finances and concerns going forward. Going through the document, a lot of those concerns involve the past, particularly […]
Google and Huawei will pay Nexus 6P owners for battery woes
[ad_1] This isn’t the first such lawsuit in recent memory. As The Verge pointed out, LG faced a similar lawsuit after multiple phone models (including the Nexus 5X) suffered from their own boot loop troubles. In January 2018, it paid $425 (or $700 via rebate) per person for the fault. While incidents like this are […]
Privately-owned Moon lander crashes in historic attempt
[ad_1] SpaceIL was one of the finalists competing for Google’s Lunar Xprize. That challenge ended without a winner, but SpaceIL joined others in persevering. Even with the crash, Israel is been part of a very exclusive club — it’s only the fourth country to put a vehicle on the Moon (in one state or another) […]
An Instagram bug briefly showed Stories to strangers
[ad_1] According to the company, the bug “caused a small number of people’s Instagram Stories trays to show accounts they don’t follow.” The full Stories did not load if the accounts were private. Instagram says it corrected the issue in a matter of hours and believes only a small percentage of accounts were impacted. But […]
Three teams will compete for millions in DARPA’s rocket launch challenge
[ad_1] Sometime in early 2020, Vector Launch, VOX Space and a third, anonymous competitor will attempt to blast their rockets into low-Earth orbit, twice in a matter of weeks. They won’t know where they’re going to launch from, the orbit they’ll travel or the payload they’re expected to carry until shortly before the mission. And […]
Acer has a new pro-grade computer line called ‘ConceptD’
[ad_1] ConceptD revolves around four pillars — performance, silence, design and precision — which is about delivering accurate colors on monitors. And the devices that Acer unveiled certainly seem to deliver on those fronts. First up is the ConceptD 9. It’s a 17.3-inch laptop with an “Ezel Aero Hinge” that lets users pull the screen […]