October 20, 2020 NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully taps an asteroid in attempt to a grab sample Image: Lockheed Martin This afternoon, a NASA spacecraft more than 200 million miles from Earth successfully touched the surface of an asteroid, in an…
October 20, 2020 Facebook Sues Two Companies It Caught Selling Fake Instagram Followers As part of Instagram’s ongoing crackdown on the scourge of fake followers leaving fake likes on the accounts of equally fake influencers, parent company…
October 20, 2020 Catch Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez live tonight on Twitch with HasanAbi and Pokimane Photo by Gotham/GC Images A day after lighting up the internet by announcing she’d joined Twitch and was looking for streamers to play the…
October 20, 2020 Disney+’s Willow Series Has a Director, a Start Date, and One Warwick Davis Here’s a spot of good cheer amid the general chaos of life lately: not only is the Ron Howard-produced, Warwick Davis-starring Willow sequel series…
October 20, 2020 Intel is selling its SSD business for $9 billion, but keeping Optane Intel is selling its SSD business to SK Hynix in a deal worth $9 billion, which will see the chipmaker almost completely exit the…
October 20, 2020 One-time Foursquare competitor Gowalla is coming back as an AR app We’ll forgive you if you don’t remember Gowalla. It was a short-lived Fourspace competitor Facebook acquired in 2011 for a modest $3 million. Well,…
October 20, 2020 New CDC Study Shows How Covid-19 Is Deadlier Than the Flu A new report fresh from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highlights the stark difference between covid-19 and the seasonal flu. For hospitalized…
October 20, 2020 Snap is adding new users and growing its ad business during the pandemic While the coronavirus pandemic has hit the ad industry hard, Snap seems to be navigating it just fine. Snapchat app added 11 million new…
October 20, 2020 Apple’s MagSafe Charger suggests a confusing future for wireless power There’s another new wireless charging standard, and it’s going to make smartphone recharging faster, but it still has some rough edges to smooth out.Read…
October 20, 2020 Snapchat’s anime lens was a huge hit, Snap confirms Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Snapchat’s anime filter was used more than 3 billion times in the first week after it…