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  • Why a Mission to a Visiting Interstellar Object Could Be Our Best Bet for Finding Aliens

    Dream Experiment Why a Mission to a Visiting Interstellar Object Could Be Our Best Bet for Finding Aliens Illustration: Angelica Alzona (Gizmodo) George DvorskyToday 2:15pmFiled to: astrobiologyFiled to: astrobiology astrobiology SETI avi loeb search for extraterrestrial intellingence interstellar objects astronomy science oumuamua 71 Edit Embiggen Send to Editors Promote Share to Kinja Move ad slots…

  • Dozens of Jeff Bezoses Protest Amazon’s Continued Relationship With ICE

    Bezos—whose stepfather, Miguel, is a Cuban immigrant and the beneficiary of a U.S. visa that he said, was “given almost freely”—has personally been bullish on tech companies cozying up to the Pentagon, though the closest he’s come to commenting specifically on his company’s relationship to DHS or ICE was this Zuckerbergian non-opinion given to Wired:…

  • The Price of Cable Has Gone Up 50 Percent Since 2010

    Photo: Getty As cable TV slowly slouches toward the grave, providers are wringing every last dime they can from Americans. New market research shows that the cost of paying for TV has risen by 50 percent since 2010. Leichtman Research Group published a new report on Wednesday based on a survey of 1,152 households around…

  • Why Do Birds Have Colorful Eggs? Because They’re Dinosaurs

  • Meet the ‘Halloween Genes’: Spook, Shadow, and Shade

    Photo: Getty Images Scientists who study Drosophila, the humble fruit fly, like to have some fun when naming newly identified genes and proteins. There’s the Sonic Hedgehog protein (which looks spiky under a microscope), the Ken and Barbie genes (when they’re mutated, fruit flies don’t develop external genitalia), and the hangover gene (which is key for…

  • Twitter Rolls Out Feature to Report Bots, Also Anyone You Think Is a Bot

    Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) Twitter has rolled out another feature intended to cut down on spam and misinformation efforts—adding suspected bots, malicious links, and spammy hashtags to the “suspicious or spam” category users can choose when reporting violations of its terms of service. Twitter’s official Safety account posted news of the feature early on…

  • New QWERTY smartphone BlackBerry was released in Europe

    The Chinese company TCL Communication, which is now engaged in the BlackBerry smartphones, has opened the accepting pre-orders for the new smartphone BlackBerry KEY2 LE. This is a simplified and cheaper version of the BlackBerry smartphone KEY2 presented in June. Version BlackBerry KEY2 LE with one SIM card and 32 GB of memory is available…

  • Apple raised the price of their computers in Russia

    After yesterday’s Apple presentation, where were presented the new MacBook Air, Mac mini and iPad Pro, the company unexpectedly raised prices on their computers in Russia and some other devices at the official online store. Rose lines laptops MacBook, MacBook Air, Macbook Pro, computers class “all-in-one” iMac and iMac Pro, and last year the 10.5-inch…

  • LG will unveil a foldable smartphone at the beginning of January in Vegas

    Known for his awareness of Evan Blass (Evan Blass) via a Twitter account under the name @evleaks has published details about the market launch foldable smartphones with flexible displays. Earlier we already wrote that Samsung is going to hold the first demonstration of such a smartphone at a developers conference on 7 November. According to…

  • Xiaomi announced the superiority of the cheapest flagship Pocophone F1 over the “overrated” OnePlus 6T

    Xiaomi company launched an active campaign to promote their smartphone Pocophone F1, underlining its advantage over the announced sovsem recently OnePlus 6T. Recall, OnePlus initially positioned their model as a “killer flagships”. However, Pocophone F1 was the cheapest flagship 2018 it is based on the top-end Qualcomm Snapdragon processor 845 at a price of $…