The San Antonio Spurs announced they have exercised their fourth-year team option on point guard Dejounte Murray through the 2019-20 season. The Spurs first-round pick in 2016, Murray became the youngest player in NBA history to make an All-Defensive Team in 2017-18 and set a franchise record for rebounds by …
Read More »SpaceX to Launch Japanese Startup’s Lunar Missions
A Japanese startup called Ispace is shooting for the moon, and SpaceX is going to help. The company wants to lead the charge in the search for large water ice deposits on the lunar surface, and it has two missions planned to make it happen. Both missions, currently slated for …
Read More »Tennis Will Be Getting An Extra $25m A Year For Tennis Development.
The Davis Cup can become the one definitive team event in tennis, says the president of the International Tennis Federation. However, the ATP is planning to hold a revamped World Team Cup in Australia in the first week of January from 2020, five weeks after the first staging of the …
Read More »Google Will Let You Opt-Out of Auto Sign-in With Chrome 70
Google used to be merely a search engine, but it has grown and expanded into other product categories that give it insight into the habits and preferences of the users — that’s us. Naturally, everyone is a bit more wary of Google’s potential influence and the amount of data it has on …
Read More »Opportunity Rover Spotted From Mars Orbit
The Opportunity rover is still taking an extended nap on Mars, but NASA has caught sight of the little robot. With the aid of the HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), NASA has pinpointed Opportunity’s location on the slopes of Perseverance Valley. Knowing where the rover ended up …
Read More »Qualcomm Accuses Apple of Giving Trade Secrets to Intel
The already acrimonious fight between Apple and Qualcomm got even uglier today. The two companies have been slugging it out for years over a range of issues related to royalty payments and fees — Apple’s decision to deploy Intel modems in its iPhones is seen as a desire to move …
Read More »Zhaoxin Shows Off 8-Core x86 CPU at 3GHz, Built on 16nm FinFET
Normally, when we talk about the x86 market, we’re talking about two companies: Intel and AMD. If Intel had its way, there’d be just one company, of course. The efforts Chipzilla took to strip AMD of its x86 license went all the way to the Supreme Court before being swatted …
Read More »New ‘Gene Drive’ Can Wipe Out Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes
In some parts of the world, mosquitos are more than a nuisance. These insects can transmit deadly diseases like malaria, which kills 400,000 people every year. Public health agencies have worked to reduce mosquito populations, but researchers from Imperial College London have developed a genetic technique that could control mosquito …
Read More »Golf Fans Go Crazy For Anthony Kim .
His short PGA Tour career was highlighted by three Tour victories and a starring role at the 2008 Ryder Cup at Valhalla. For a while many assumed the video was recent, but an update was posted saying the video was at least two years old.
Read More »Toyota Reportedly Adding Android Auto Support
Google announced Android Auto at Google I/O 2014, but it didn’t launch on devices until the following year. Getting support in cars, however, took even longer. Slowly but surely, most major automakers have agreed to let Google run its car-friendly Android in their vehicles, but Toyota has famously refused Google’s …
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