The Lawn Tennis Writers Association of Great Britain was established during the British Hard Court Championships at the West Hants Club in Bournemouth in 1951 and it didnt take long for it to make an impact on the tennis coverage in Great Britain, including morning papers, the London evenings, provincial …

Google’s inability to form a coherent messaging strategy is legendary at this point, and it doesn’t look like things are getting any better if a new rumor is accurate. According to a report from 9to5Google, Hangouts will shut down in 2020. Despite Google’s claims otherwise, its messaging setup seems as …

  Climate change the greatest threat humankind faces today. We’ve already seen significant glacial melting, rising sea levels, raging wildfires, the migration of dangerous parasites and disease vectors like mosquitos and ticks, and—most notably—extreme and devastating weather events. All signs show that the problem is only going to get worse. …

A new book by Brad Sams, Beneath A Surface, details the history and development of Microsoft’s Surface product portfolio, starting from the early days when a massive Surface RT writedown nearly killed the product line altogether to the current era. It also contains some intriguing hints about what might be …

Microsoft has won a $480M contract with the US military to provide its HoloLens technology as part of an augmented reality technology package that the Army intends to use for training as well as in combat missions. The contract calls for Microsoft to provide “Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) prototypes.” …

After years of working on its foldable display prototypes, Samsung is now stuck facing an ugly fact — the technology behind those screens may have already been sold to a Chinese competitor by one of Samsung’s own suppliers. That’s the claim made by South Korean prosecutors today in charges levied …

The moon is huge, and it’s not very far away in the grand scheme of things. With with uncountable trillions of tons of “moon” out there, you wouldn’t think tiny pieces it would be so valuable, but humanity has only managed to bring a tiny bit of lunar material back …

  Black Friday wasn’t just a boon for e-commerce retailers, it helped the mobile app stores break new records, too. According to a new report from Sensor Tower, the combined consumer spending across the U.S. Apple App Store and Google Play on Black Friday 2018 reached $75.9 million — a record …

An international team of archaeologists and paleoanthropologists has uncovered 2.4-million-year-old stone artifacts and cutmarked bones at the archaeological site of Ain Boucherit in Algeria. The discovery, reported in the journal Science, suggests that humans’ ancestors inhabited the Mediterranean fringe in North Africa much earlier than previously thought. The Ain Boucherit …

A team of scientists in China has discovered that females of a species of ant-mimicking jumping spider called Toxeus magnus secrete a nutritious milk-like substance to feed their young. The discovery is described in a paper published this week in the journal Science. Toxeus magnus, adult female. Image credit: Chen …