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Image: Essential You’ve got to appreciate a company that doesn’t give up even when things are looking down. Despite a rocky launch plagued by delayed shipments, unfinished software, and a laggy camera app, Essential has done an admirable job of turning an over-hyped (and expensive) phone into something you might actually want to buy. And…

Photo: Carl Court (Getty) Heading to Japan next week? You should probably double-check your Airbnb rental, because it might be cancelled. The country will soon enforce a law requiring vacation rentals like Airbnb residences to be registered with the Japanese government, prompting the removal of more than 48,000 Japan-based Airbnb listings, and the cancellation of…

Graphic: Yahoo Verizon paid billions last year for the privilege of ushering Yahoo’s services into the great unknown and on Friday it announced that Yahoo Messenger will bite the dust on July 17. Yahoo’s new messaging service, Squirrel, is currently in private beta, but there’s no direct replacement for Messenger at this time. You have…

Data showing each of the infrared-emitting objects.Image: W. M. Keck Observatory The center of our galaxy is an extreme place that holds all sorts of mysteries. Among those enigmas are what appear to be gas clouds that somehow refuse to be pulled apart by the immense gravity of the galactic center. Scientists usnig the Keck…

Photo: AP Just in case the idea of unauthorized charges wasn’t clear enough, the FCC approved new rules this week that would make it illegal for solicitors and carriers to slam and cram their phones with unwanted services and fraudulent fees. The practice of cramming is when shady phone companies add bogus charges to your…

Eruption of Mt. Arenal in Costa Rica in 2010.Photo: Matthew Landry/Wikimedia The recent volcanic eruptions in Hawaii and Guatemala are potent reminders that our planet is capable of unleashing its pent up fury at virtually any given time. Predicting eruptions isn’t easy, but some volcanoes are more worrisome than others. Before we list our planet’s…

Graffiti in Vilnius, LithuaniaPhoto: Getty It’s hard out there for people who play with imaginary money. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies plunged over the weekend after it was revealed that a South Korean exchange, Coinrail, was hacked. Roughly $42 billion of market value was destroyed in the sell-off, and Bitcoin has lost over 50 percent of…

Bloomberg published an article which examines the winners in the “race of unmanned vehicles”. In the race to launch the world’s first service of unmanned vehicles the undisputed leader became Waymo, a subsidiary of Alphabet under which wing is and Google. Waymo a year ahead of its main competitors, introduced the drones, it plans to…