NASA's CAPSTONE satellite has gone dark
NASA has lost contact with CAPSTONE, a tiny satellite that left Earth's orbit on July 4th. CAPSTONE is a cubesat weighing just 55 pounds, and it's headed for the Moon as part of NASA's plan to get...
View ArticleTwitter sues India to challenge government order to block content
After more than a year of rising tensions over the country’s sweeping 2021 IT law, Twitter is suing India’s government. The New York Times reports the company filed a complaint on Tuesday with the...
View ArticleMeta sues a site cloner who allegedly scraped over 350,000 Instagram profiles
Meta is taking legal action against two prolific data scrapers. On Tuesday, the company filed separate federal lawsuits against a company called Octopus and an individual named Ekrem Ateş. According to...
View ArticleNetflix says 'Stranger Things 4' racked up over 1 billion hours viewed
Stranger Things 4 has become the most popular English-language series on Netflix with the premiere of its last two episodes. The streaming giant has revealed that the show has racked up 1.15 billion...
View ArticleAmazon is giving Prime subscribers a free year of Grubhub+ deliveries
Amazon has announced a handful of new perks for Prime members ahead of Prime Day this month, including free deliveries from nearby restaurants. All Prime members in the US will now get access to a...
View ArticleAmazon's smart thermostat falls to a new all-time low of $42 ahead of Prime Day
Amazon has already started selling a bunch of its smart home devices at a discount, almost a week before Prime Day even begins. One of the most notable deals that's already available is Amazon's smart...
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The Morning After: ASUS’ ROG Phone 6 has a clip-on thermoelectric cooler
In a nutshell, ASUS’ new powerful gaming phone is all about bigger specs and faster performance. It has a 165Hz 6.78-inch display, with 720Hz touch sampling rate, up to 18GB of RAM and a bigger...
View ArticleApple's MacBook Air M2 ships July 15, with pre-orders starting July 8
Good news for those who've been waiting for Apple's colorful laptops to come out: The new M2-powered MacBook Air will be available for pre-order starting on July 8th at 5AM PDT/8AM EDT. It was first...
View ArticleAmazon's Fire TV Cube drops to $60 in early Prime Day deal
A bunch of Amazon devices are starting to go on sale for Prime members ahead of the two-day shopping event next week, and that includes the company's most powerful streaming device. The Fire TV Cube...
View ArticleThis 'sand' battery stores renewable energy as heat
A company in Finland has created an an unusual storage solution for renewable energy: One that uses sand instead of lithium ion or other battery technologies. Polar Night Energy and Vatajankoski, an...
View ArticleAmazon's kid-focused Glow device is 55 percent off for Prime members
With early Prime Day deals in full swing, Amazon has discounted one of its more niche devices for Prime members. The Glow, Amazon's interactive video-call and projector device, is down to $150 ahead of...
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Meta's latest AI can translate 200 languages in real time
More than 7,000 languages are currently spoken on this planet and Meta seemingly wants to understand them all. Six months ago, the company launched its ambitious No Language Left Behind (NLLB) project,...
View ArticleFitbit's Charge 5 fitness tracker is on sale for $110 right now
A new sale at Wellbots knocks the Fitbit Charge 5 down to the best price we've seen it. The GPS-toting fitness band is on sale for $110, or $40 off its usual price, when you use the code ENGDTRUN40 at...
View Article'God of War Ragnarok' hits PS5, PS4 on November 9th
Sony has confirmed that God of War Ragnarok, the sequel to 2018's dramatic spin on the franchise, will launch on the PlayStation 5 and PS4 on November 9th. That confirms earlier rumors around a...
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Everything you need to know about Amazon Prime Day 2022
With Amazon Prime Day less than a week away, it’s a good time to start thinking about the things you’ll want to look for once the deal wave hits. Everything from gadgets to clothes to household...
View ArticleToyota runs out of federal EV tax credits, pushing prices higher
Toyota is the latest automaker to run out of US federal tax credits and it will join Tesla and GM in losing access to the $7,500 subsidy. The company surpassed the qualifying sales threshold for EVs...
View ArticleUbisoft is killing online support for 15 games on September 1st
If you have fond memories of older Ubisoft games with online components from the early 2010s, you might want to check in on them soon. That's because on September 1st 2022, Ubisoft is dropping support...
View ArticleMarriott suffers at least its seventh data breach since 2010
Marriott confirmed it was the target of yet another data breach after attackers recently breached the company's systems. The company said hackers used social engineering techniques to gain access to an...
View ArticleNASA reestablishes communications with its wayward CAPSTONE satellite
It's been a wild few days for NASA's CAPSTONE mission. Following the lunar satellite's successful launch from Rocket Lab's site on New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula, ground control lost contact with the...
View ArticleUK’s antitrust watchdog investigating Microsoft and Activision megadeal
Microsoft will have to satisfy more than just the Federal Trade Commission to complete its $68.7 billion deal to buy Activision Blizzard. On Wednesday, the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets...
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