[ad_1] Check out the engine cam video.SpaceX sends its ‘Starhopper’ on an untethered test flight After completing zero of two launch attempts on Wednesday, SpaceX went two for two on Thursday. Its Dragon spacecraft is making a third trip to the ISS, while its Starhopper test vehicle took a tiny untethered jump from its test […]
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Google’s hardware division is recovering from slow Pixel 3 sales
[ad_1] As usual, Alphabet’s press release doesn’t say a whole lot about the more interesting parts of its business — for that, we’ll have to wait for the company’s call with investors, which starts at 4:30PM ET. We’re listening in and will update this post with anything we learn. A few other tidbits worth noting: […]
Democratic hopeful Tulsi Gabbard sues Google over alleged censorship
[ad_1] According to The New York Times, after the first debate, Gabbard was briefly the most searched-for candidate on Google. Purchasing ads would have helped the campaign get its website at the top of the search results, Tulsi Now Inc. said. The campaign team also believes its emails were being placed in Gmail spam folders […]
Discord introduces a better way to organize servers
[ad_1] Starting today, there’s an easier way to organize your servers on chat platform Discord: folders. If you’re a member of many Discord servers, you’ll know that organizing them is a bit of a pain. Previously, you could move server icons in your sidebar to reorder them, but if you had more than 10 or […]
Firefox Reality VR web browser arrives on Oculus Quest headsets
[ad_1] The free software is initially available in 10 languages (including Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean). More are on the way, Mozilla said. This isn’t necessarily a revolution, especially if you’re content to use the regular Oculus Browser. Regardless, it’s a big deal for Quest owners and VR browsing as a whole. You […]
Samsung rescheduled the Galaxy Fold launch
[ad_1] We’ll meet Samsung’s first foldable phone in September.The Galaxy Fold release has been rescheduled Three months after its postponed launch, we finally have an idea of when the $1,980 Galaxy Fold’s release date. Samsung announced that “select markets” will have a chance to get the convertible device in September. Its engineers have changed the […]
ABC is making a ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ series for Hulu
[ad_1] Cuse and Fuchs will write and executive produce the project under ABC Signature, the streaming division of ABC Studios, and Cuse’s Genre Arts. Fuchs is reportedly writing the pilot script for what Deadline says is “a modern updating of the classic story,” which started as a radio series in 1978. It was eventually adapted […]
Microsoft drops the ‘Online’ name from its Office web apps
[ad_1] On one hand, ditching “Online” as a naming convention makes sense. It goes without saying if you are accessing the app through the web that you are using the “online” version of it. On the other hand, it might cause some confusion when Microsoft tries to differentiate between its desktop, mobile and web apps. […]
Canada invests $85 million in internet satellites for rural areas
[ad_1] Navdeep Bains, the Canadian minister of innovation, said that high-speed internet access is not a luxury, and that Canadians should have access to it regardless of where they live. “Today’s announcements will provide us with a glimpse of what future connectivity of rural and remote communities will look like. It will also ensure that […]
Facebook continues to grow like crazy, despite FTC fines
[ad_1] With that perspective, the SEC’s $100 million fine, which concerns “misleading disclosures” the company made around data risk, seems practically pointless. And then, of course, there’s today’s other big whoopsie: It turns out Facebook continued to give 12 partners access to user data even after saying it would cut them off. After accounting for […]