Using the Hubble Space telescope and other observatories, astronomers have completed the most accurate census of galaxies in the observable universe to date. In terms of the actual number, let’s just say we were way the hell off. Read more…
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We Were Very Wrong About the Number of Galaxies in the Universe
Amazon has just launched its long-awaited Spotify competitor , Amazon Music Unlimited. Like Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Google Play, and Deezer, Amazon Music Unlimited offers on-demand access to tens of millions of songs. And like those services, it also offers “thousands” of “hand curated playlists” and personalized stations. Read more…
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Amazon Comes for Spotify With Cheaper Music Subscriptions
Yahoo has recently disabled a feature that would have made it easier to ditch your Yahoo email account. Perhaps you had planned on forwarding all incoming messages to a new address, a common feature with most email providers. Unfortunately it’s not currently an option at Yahoo. Read more…
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Remains of the Day: Yahoo Makes it More Difficult to Leave by Disabling Email Forwarding
On Sunday, explosives experts were dispatched to Folly Island, South Carolina, after a resident found what appeared to be at least a dozen Civil War cannonballs uncovered by Hurricane Matthew. Read more…
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Hurricane Matthew Unearths 150-Year-Old Civil War Artillery in South Carolina
A new lawsuit from a former Yahoo employee claims that Zamboni-loving CEO Marissa Mayer tried to purge the company of men. The lawsuit, filed by Scott Ard in San Jose federal court, accuses Mayer of fostering “the use of (an employee performance-rating system) to accommodate management’s subjective biases and personal opinions, to the detriment of Yahoo’s male employees.” Read more…
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New Lawsuit Alleges Marissa Mayer Tried to Purge Yahoo of Men [Updated]
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off the company’s experiments with social virtual reality experiences that allow you to chat with your friends using avatars in headsets like Oculus’s Rift. It was really weird. The demo app allows you to chat with avatars of your friends, travel to places like Mars or Facebook’s Headquarters, and take virtual reality selfies to share to Facebook. Read more…
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Absurd ‘Social VR’ Demo Was Brutal
If you watched the “Made by Google” event yesterday—or read our roundup —you’d be forgiven if you missed that there was a brand new version of Android. Google itself hardly seemed to notice . Here’s what we know about it. Read more…
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Android 7.1 Brings Night Light, Seamless Updates, Fingerprint Gestures, and Daydream VR
Google has sold more than 30 million Chromecasts for the simple reason that it’s a super easy, super cheap way to get the stuff you’re watching on your computer on to your TV. Now it’s getting an upgrade for the TVs of tomorrow. Read more…
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Google’s New 4K Chromecast Ultra Is Way Fast
Yahoo built software to secretly scan its users emails at the behest of U.S intelligence officials, according to a report by Reuters. Read more…
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Yahoo Secretly Scanned Users’ Emails For The NSA and FBI: Report
We tend to think of coral reefs as luminous, undersea jungles that pepper the shallow, scuba-friendly tropics. But deeper down, in a region about as bright as Pluto on a sunny day , there lie vast reef ecosystems unknown to science. Read more…
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Exotic ‘Twilight Zone’ Reef Is Brimming With Unique Forms of Life