Tech billionaire Elon Musk's dream of gaining city status for his SpaceX spaceport in the southern US state of Texas could become a reality on Saturday, with voters set to green light Starbase as a new municipality.
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1 week agoNetflix will work with Microsoft to launch a cheaper subscription plan that includes advertisements, the firms said on Wednesday, as the streaming giant fights to attract customers.
2 years agoThe meteorite NWA 7034, nicknamed Black Beauty, has fascinated geologists since it was discovered in the Sahara Desert in 2011.
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2 years ago"Every image is a new discovery," said NASA administrator Bill Nelson. "Each will give humanity a view of the universe that we've never seen before."
2 years agoThe James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful observatory to be placed in orbit, has revealed the "deepest and sharpest infrared image of the early universe" ever taken, going back 13 billion years, NASA said on Monday.
2 years agoThe James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful to be placed in orbit, has revealed the clearest image to date of the early universe, going back 13 billion years, NASA said Tuesday.
2 years agoA jawbone fragment discovered in northern Spain last month could be the oldest known fossil of a human ancestor found to date in Europe, Spanish paleontologists said Friday.
2 years agoDistant galaxies, bright nebulae and a faraway giant gas planet are among the observatory's first targets, US space agency NASA said Friday.
2 years agoAfter three years of tinkering and hundreds of lines of code, Nigerian Victor Daniyan launches what he believes is the first African soccer game — Vikseen Virtual.
2 years agoApple Inc. said on Wednesday it planned to release a new feature called Lockdown Mode this fall that aimed to add a new layer of protection for human rights advocates, political dissidents and other targets of sophisticated hacking attacks.
2 years agoVideo-sharing sensation TikTok is being sued in California after children died while taking part in a "Blackout Challenge" that makes a sport of choking oneself until passing out.
2 years agoTwitter is challenging the Indian government's orders to block content on its social media site in court.
2 years agoJapanese scientists have successfully produced cloned mice using freeze-dried cells in a technique they believe could one day help conserve species and overcome challenges with current biobanking methods.
2 years agoThis year, a research institute hopes social media can play a more practical role - asking residents to tweet details about floods in their neighborhoods and using the data to issue geographically specific flood alerts in real-time.
2 years agoGoogle announced on Friday it would delete users' location history when they visit abortion clinics, domestic violence shelters and other places where privacy was sought.
2 years agoChinese-owned social-media site TikTok told United States senators it was working on a final agreement with the Biden administration that would "fully safeguard user data and US national security interests," according to a TikTok letter seen on Friday.
2 years agoA study of bone loss in 17 astronauts who flew aboard the International Space Station is providing a fuller understanding of the effects of space travel on the human body and steps that can mitigate it, crucial knowledge ahead of potential ambitious future missions.
2 years agoFossils dating back about six million years found in southwest China's Yunnan province included a greatly enlarged wrist bone called a radial sesamoid.
2 years agoGoogle announced Friday it would delete users' location history when they visit abortion clinics, domestic violence shelters and other places where privacy is sought.
2 years agoTikTok sought to reassure US senators this week that it is taking all necessary steps to limit access to users' data from outside the United States, including by employees of its parent company, the Chinese group ByteDance.
2 years agoThe Sterkfontein caves at the Cradle of Humankind world heritage site southwest of Johannesburg have yielded more Australopithecus fossils than any other site in the world.
2 years agoAstronomers have observed a star in a relatively nearby galaxy that not only survived what ordinarily should have been certain death, a stellar explosion called a supernova, but emerged from it brighter than before the blast.
2 years agoMiners in the Klondike gold fields of Canada's far north have made a rare discovery, digging up the mummified remains of a near complete baby woolly mammoth.
2 years agoA Japanese city has been left with more than a headache after admitting a contractor lost a USB containing personal data on all 460,000 residents during a night out.
2 years agoA global report from security company Fortinet shows that cyberattacks in Asia mostly take place because of the countries’ shortage of specialists.
2 years agoFacebook owner Meta has agreed to change its ad targeting technology and pay $115,000 to settle US government allegations the social media giant allowed discrimination in who saw housing advertisements, authorities said Tuesday.
2 years agoSome dehydrated "cochayuyo" seaweed, some instant mashed potatoes and hot water: these are the ingredients for a nutritious menu of 3D printed food that nutritional experts in Chile hope will revolutionize the food market, particularly for children.
2 years agoMeta and many of its competitors market immersive products with a lower age limit of 13 -- though it is widely accepted that younger children will use the tech.
2 years agoA majority of employees at an Apple outlet in the United States has voted to form a union, a first for the tech giant that has so far tried to discourage unionization attempts.
2 years agoSouth Korea, which has some of the world's fastest average internet speeds, remained bizarrely wedded to Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which was retired by the company earlier this week after 27 years.
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