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  • How Amazon Now Shapes What Our Stuff Looks Like

    Image: Tide / Gizmodo Tide just announced a new alternative to the classic bottle of laundry detergent. It basically looks and works just like a box of wine, which is sort of funny because of that whole meme about teens eating Tide Pods. But the new Tide Eco-Box is no joke. It’s actually a glimpse…

  • Juno’s Latest Pic of Clouds on Jupiter Is an Absolute Stunner

    Jupiter’s North Temperate Belt, as photographed by the Juno spacecraft on October 29, 2018.Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill The largest planet in our Solar System also happens to be one of the most beautiful, as the Juno spacecraft’s latest image reveals. Since its arrival at Jupiter on July 5, 2016, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has completed 16…

  • How to Get All Your Local Media Files Streaming to a Chromebook

    Photo: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo) While you can replace a lot of desktop apps with online equivalents when using a Chromebook—and even run Linux apps—you can’t exactly transfer your local media library wholesale from Windows or macOS to your thin and light laptop. Here are some of the smartest ways to take your media library anywhere.…

  • Here’s Where the ExoMars 2020 Mission Will Likely Land, and Why

    ExoMars artist’s conceptIllustration: ESA ExoMars 2020 is the next part of the ExoMars missions: a rover and landing platform that will be sent to Mars as part of a joint mission between the European Space Agency and Russia’s Roscosmos. The rover and platform consist of instruments for measuring the planet’s dirt and atmosphere, and will…

  • eBay and Airbnb Join Tech Giants in Banning Forced Arbitration for Sexual Harassment Cases

    Photo: Getty Just over a week after the massive Google walkout, some tech companies are taking strides toward ending a commonly used practice in Silicon Valley and elsewhere to keep disputes out of the limelight. And on Monday, it was revealed that two more companies followed suit. Forced arbitration waives an individual’s right to a…

  • Ancient Cat Mummies and More Discovered in Egyptian Tombs

    Mummified cats inside a tomb, at an ancient necropolis near Egypt’s famed pyramids in Saqqara, Giza, Egypt.Image: AP Archaeologists working at a pyramid complex south of Cairo have discovered dozens of cat mummies, along with troves of wooden statues and a rare collection of mummified scarab beetles. The secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of…

  • Cable Companies Call For DOJ Investigation Into Comcast Allegedly Abusing Its Power With Hulu

    Photo: Getty The American Cable Association, a group of about 700 small cable providers, has requested the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division open an immediate investigation into Comcast’s competitive practices after restrictions on its 2011 merger deal with NBC recently expired. The group claims the telecom giant poses a greater threat than the newly merged AT&T/Time-Warner…

  • China will soon visit uncharted territory on the moon

    China promises to go down in history of space exploration, so to speak. In December, the country will launch the first ever spacecraft on dark side of the moon. Another system, which will go to the satellite in 2019, will return lunar samples to Earth for the first time since 1976. These two missions are…

  • Scientists are developing technology to replace the bad memories with something good

    Surely each of us has moments in life that we would prefer for one reason or another to forget. How about to replace them with something nice? Or even “invent” memories? Sounds like a synopsis of the plot of the movie “total Recall” based on the story by Philip K. dick, however, a group of…

  • The quantum compass will help to determine the location without GPS

    In today’s world almost anywhere without the means for orientation in space. We use navigators, and special programs driving the car, the maps looking for the desired object and determine its location, and when traveling to another city or country without such a solutions simply will not do. But for this, you use data from…