The BepiColombo Mercury probe is a joint mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The probe is intended to study Mercury’s magnetic field, magnetosphere, interior, and surface structures. It consists of two vehicles — the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and the Mercury Magnetosphere Orbiter …

Netflix just broke new records on consumer spending in its mobile apps, according to new data app intelligence firm Sensor Tower has shared with TechCrunch. In November, Netflix pulled in an estimated $86.6 million in worldwide consumer spending across its iOS and Android apps combined — a figure that’s 77 …

A team of researchers has discovered a new species of salamander living in Alabama and the Panhandle region of Florida, the United States. A reticulated siren (Siren reticulata) from the waters of northwestern Florida (Okaloosa County) rests on an aquarium floor. Image credit: Pierson Hill. The newly-discovered salamander species belongs …

A team of scientists from the United States and Brazil has successfully sequenced the genome of the turquoise-fronted Amazon parrot (Amazona aestiva) and compared it with those of 30 other bird species, including 4 additional parrots. The turquoise-fronted Amazon parrot (Amazona aestiva). Image credit: Charles J. Sharp, www.sharpphotography.co.uk / CC …

Love, 54, is also performing neighborly checkins on businesses and individuals who help support the PGA Tours RSM Classic played at Sea Island Golf Club. Along with myriad details a tour host typically attends to , the drive also entails checking in on recipients of funds from the Davis Love …

  Google is by far the most popular search engine in most countries, but Russia is one of the rare exceptions. There, the home-grown Yandex platform beasts Google by a wide margin. The two companies have clashed over Google’s control of Android, and now Yandex is taking advantage of Russia’s …

Microsoft has wasted no time confirming the recent rumors: the Edge browser is dead. All hail the new Edge based on Google’s open-source Chromium code. The rendering engine Microsoft has worked for years to perfect is getting the boot, and the company will spend the next year building a new …

Google’s seeming inability to settle on a chat platform has been something of a running joke on the internet for years, and it’s not going away anytime soon. Barely two years after launching its Allo chat app, Google has announced that Allo will shut down in the coming months. This …

Over the last two years Luminar by Skylum (formerly MacPhun) has moved from being a boutique photo editor for Mac loyalists to a well-designed, cross-platform, non-subscription, alternative to Adobe Lightroom. Like Lightroom, it is fully non-destructive, so it doesn’t need to modify your original image, but it also doesn’t have …

Sony’s PlayStation Classic has not been reviewed particularly well. As we detailed in our roundup, the collective opinion of the community boils down to “bare-bones implementation with a so-so library.” There’s been plenty of speculation about why the system ended up shipping with such a weak selection of games, with …