China’s Mars simulation base welcomes first visitors
By Amanda Woods JINCHANG, China – About 100 excited Chinese teenagers completed a five-hour tour of a space colony against a desolate backdrop not unlike the desert planet of Tatooine, …
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Hackers are stealing millions in Bitcoin — and living like big shots
By Michael At 1:30 on a Sunday afternoon in January 2018, Michael Terpin was on his laptop, prepping for a conference in Las Vegas. His iPhone buzzed with an incoming …
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Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp go down for users
By MacCarthy The social media behemoth Facebook and its two other digital properties, Instagram and WhatsApp, went down Sunday morning, reports say. Facebook’s website was inaccessible starting at around 6:30 …
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SpaceX successfully launches world’s most powerful rocket for paying customer
By Bradford SpaceX successfully launched its new and improved Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Thursday for a paying customer — more than a year after sending up …
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Google, Goodwill team up to give job seekers digital skills training
By Rogers Google and Goodwill are ramping up an initiative offering digital skills training to job seekers. Last year the tech giant joined forces with Goodwill to launch the Goodwill …
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Amazon hopes to give internet to everyone with 3,000 satellites
By Charlotte Amazon is planning to launch 3,236 satellites so it can provide fast internet to “un-served and underserved communities around the world.” The tech giant is referring to these …
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India debates ban on popular online game PUBG after deaths
By Rajat NEW DELHI, INDIA — A boy’s suicide this week in southern India after his mother scolded him for playing a popular online game has inflamed a national debate …
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Toyota’s new robot may be the world’s best 3-point shooter
By A.P TOKYO — It can’t dribble, let alone slam dunk, yet Toyota’s basketball robot hardly ever misses a free throw or 3-pointer. The 207-centimeter (six-foot, 10-inch) tall machine made …
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Facebook says it’s putting new restrictions on livestreaming
By Sara Two weeks after a crazed gunman broadcast himself slaughtering 50 people in New Zealand on Facebook, the social network giant says it’s putting in new restrictions on livestreaming. …
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NASA and ESA are paying people $19K to lie in bed for 60 days
By Mike Regardless of what your own personal idea of a dream job might be, you have to admit that being paid to lounge around in bed sounds pretty awesome …
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Pinterest files for IPO
By Nicolas SAN FRANCISCO — Pinterest is pinning its future on Wall Street, with the digital scrapbooking site on Friday filing for an initial public offering of stock. It follows …
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Google executive details tech giant’s New York expansion
By Lois Paul Darrah, Google’s head of real estate, on Tuesday detailed some of the company’s plans to double in size in New York over the next decade. “It’s where …
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US military studying skin of world’s fastest shark to build faster aircraft
By Schmidt The skin of the mako shark is being studied by the US Army to help build faster aircraft, according to research presented on Monday. Makos, the world’s fastest …
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Lyft zooms past Uber in IPO race
By Carleton Investors, start your engines: The ride-hailing IPO race is finally kicking off. Lyft — the No. 2 taxi app behind Uber — pulled ahead of its bigger rival …
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TikTok to pay record-breaking $5.7M fine for violating child privacy law
By Chris The company behind the popular lip-syncing app TikTok has agreed to pay nearly $6 million as part of a record-breaking settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over claims …
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AT&T pulls ads from YouTube over pedophile concerns
By Jenson AT&T pulled all its advertising from Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube for the second time in two years after a magazine reported the platform displayed ads next to videos that …
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Thousands of Android apps track everything you do — and you can’t stop it
By Andy New research out of the International Computer Science Institute in California has turned up a worrisome finding: About 17,000 Android apps have apparently been not only tracking your …
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India Wants Access to Encrypted WhatsApp Messages
By Newely NEW DELHI— Facebook Inc.’s FB 2.45% WhatsApp is facing pressure in India to let authorities trace and read the encrypted messages of its more than 200 million Indian …
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Employees at Amazon’s Ring have been spying on customers
By Andy If you own a Ring doorbell camera system, we’ve got some bad news. The smart home company owned by Amazon, which the internet retail giant shelled out more …
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Samsung Electronics flags near-30% slump in Q4 operating profit
By Emilia Samsung Electronics on Tuesday flagged its first quarterly profit drop in two years and painted a grim outlook owing to mounting competition from Chinese smartphone makers and declining …
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