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Photo: Getty Over the last year, Apple CEO Tim Cook has made it a point to call out tech companies for indiscriminately collecting data on users and disregarding concerns about privacy. But one issue with his criticism is that Apple gets paid a boatload of money from Google for making its search engine the default…

Photo: Bebeto Matthews (AP) Coinciding with a buck wild, self-published “op-ed,” Governor Andrew Cuomo went on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show this morning to double down on his decision to offer Amazon, one of the largest retailers in the world, a glut of incentives estimated to total $4.6 billion. The interview was a rousing success—if…

Mars 2020 artist’s concept.Illustration: NASA/JPL-Caltech The selection process began with a list containing dozens of potential sites, followed by workshops to narrow down the candidates. It was based on five criteria, which essentially amount to the site being scientifically interesting and having the potential for evidence of ancient life and water. Scientists on the NASA…

LauncherOne attached to Cosmic GirlPhoto: Virgin Orbit A Virgin Orbit plane took off with a rocket under its wing on Sunday, marking a successful test flight for the company that hopes to provide satellite-launching services. Scientists and businesses are increasingly launching smaller satellites for research or communications purposes, but there are limited options for getting…

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Image: Twitter On Monday, The Verge reported that Twitter “redesigned” its iOS app to put less emphasis on follower counts, a move in line with CEO Jack Dorsey’s recent comment that the platform has wrongly pushed users to “increase that number.” How is Twitter correcting its error? Well, you can see for yourself below: Before…

Photo: Image: Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office The bizarre, winding tale of the $400,000 GoFundMe campaign for a homeless man just got even messier. Speaking through her attorney, Kate McClure is now claiming that she was involved in an abusive relationship, and that falsified, feel-good story was concocted by her boyfriend and a homeless man for…

Apep, the first Wolf-Rayet star system to be discovered in the Milky Way.Image: ESO/Callingham et al. This image of a dusty, gas-rich nebula looks pretty, but appearances can be deceiving. Known as a Wolf-Rayet star system, it’s poised to unleash a catastrophic gamma-ray burst when it finally goes supernova. What’s remarkable about this particular Wolf-Rayet…

Akin Robotics factory in Konya, TurkeyPhoto: Chris McGrath (Getty) A top artificial intelligence (AI) conference will officially use a different acronym as its shorthand name, following months of controversy fueled in part by last year’s event when keynote speaker Elon Musk reportedly made a joke about “tits.” For decades, the Neural Information Processing Systems conference has…

He is so calm, so relaxed, so normcore in his VR skatesScreenshot: USPTO And look at him here. A chubby man in his normcore office wear, relaxing in this VR world, ignoring the chaos of reality without having to worry about knocking over Nana’s heirloom Ming vase. I believe in you VR gumby man.Screenshot: USPTO…