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NASA YV/YouTube After the New Horizons mission zoomed by the then-unknown Ultima Thule object in the outer Solar System early on New Year’s Day, the spacecraft began returning data to Earth via a deep-space network. Although only about 1 percent of that data is now on the ground, scientists were able to share some top-line …

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Enlarge / The Netflix homepage—iPhone and iPad users will have to go here to sign up for the streaming video service. (credit: Netflix) Netflix will no longer offer in-app subscription purchases for users of iOS devices like iPhones and iPads, VentureBeat reports. The change cuts off a substantial amount of revenue for Apple at a …

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Enlarge / Who doesn’t love some new Windows? (credit: Peter Bright / Flickr) About three and a half years after its release, Windows 10 seems to have convincingly passed Windows 7 in usage share. Online stat-tracking service Net Market Share puts Windows 10 at 39.22 percent of usage versus 36.90 percent for Windows 7. Web-based …

Windows 10 creeps past Windows 7 usage, latest update barely used Read More »

Enlarge / Ian Read, chairman and CEO of Pfizer Inc. spoke with President Trump last July about pausing drug price hikes. Pfizer now plans to increase prices of 41 of its drugs later this month. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg) More than three dozen drug companies welcomed the new year with sweeping price hikes on hundreds …

Big Pharma ushers in new year with price hikes on hundreds of drugs Read More »

Enlarge / Google’s radar chip detects hand motions, creating a gesture control system. (credit: Google) Google’s radar-based gesture control system for mobile devices, Project Soli, isn’t dead yet. The project, which was announced all the way back in 2015, has popped up at the FCC, where it has been approved for use in the 57- to …

Google’s “Project Soli” radar gesture chip isn’t dead, gets FCC approval Read More »

Enlarge / Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai arrives for his confirmation hearing with the Senate Commerce Committee on July 19, 2017, in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty Images | Chip Somodevilla ) Ajit Pai today celebrated a victory in his ongoing quest to prevent the US government from enforcing net neutrality rules. The Pai-led Federal …

Ajit Pai thanks Congress for helping him kill net neutrality rules Read More »

Enlarge / Slightly Mad Studios likes to promote the VR modes of its Project Cars games. Now its CEO wants to build a living-room gaming box built for high-end VR gaming. (credit: Slightly Mad Studios) Are you ready for another video game console, complete with promises of high-speed performance for 4K TVs and wireless VR …

A game studio with zero hardware experience is building a VR-ready console Read More »

Enlarge / Original manuscript of the Domesday Book on display at The National Archives in Kew, London. Satellite documents preserved by a Benedictine abbot named Nigel place its completion date much later than previously assumed. (credit: Jonathan Brady/PA Images/Getty Images) At Christmas in 1085, William the Conqueror decided to commission a kingdom-wide survey of England, …

Study: Famed Domesday Book was completed later than historians thought Read More »

Enlarge / GILLETTE, Wyo.: A truck loaded with coal is viewed from the Eagle Butte Coal Mine Overlook which is operated by Alpha Coal. The area is a large producer of coal. Gillette uses the moniker of “The Energy Capital of the Nation”. (credit: Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Given all the celebrations, …

Corkscrew sponge sucks up carbon dioxide, ignores nitrogen Read More »