The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) under chairman Ajit Pai has followed through on its threat to kill net neutrality. In a 3-2 vote today, the commission approved a proposal to nullify the net neutrality rules put in place by the FCC in 2015. This move frees up internet service providers …
Read More »Blue Origin Successfully Tests Revised Rocket and Crew Capsule
Blue Origin, the private space firm started by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has successfully completed a test launch of its revised New Shepard rocket. This is the first launch for Blue Origin in more than a year, and it’s also the first time it has tested its new Crew Capsule …
Read More »Juno Probe Reveals Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Extends 200 Miles Deep
The Juno space probe was launched back in 2011 on course for Jupiter. It arrived in orbit of the gas giant in summer 2016 after five years of travel, and it began sending back stunning images and extensive scientific data early this year. One of the primary duties of Juno …
Read More »Google Uses Machine Learning to Find New Exoplanets
Astronomers have been spotting exoplanets for decades, but the overwhelming majority of newly discovered planets outside our solar system have come courtesy of the Kepler mission. This space observatory has found well over a thousand exoplanets, but Kepler accumulated a ton of data that’s difficult to analyze. Google has stepped …
Read More »Plenty of Fish doubles down on conversations with new features
Match Group, which houses a large portfolio of dating app brands – including most notably, Tinder, Match, and OKCupid – is prepping a notable upgrade to one of its older brands: Plenty of Fish. The dating service, often dubbed ‘POF’ by its users, was founded in 2003 then sold to …
Read More »Assembla’s new iOS app lets developers manage their repos on the go
Software development isn’t exactly something that naturally lends itself to mobile. Who, after all, wants to code on a virtual keyboard and a small screen. But you don’t need to be bound to a desktop or laptop to manage your code or to compare the latest revisions of a file …
Read More »A new version of Mixer, Microsoft’s Twitch rival, hits iOS and Android
Microsoft today is officially launching a new version of its Mixer mobile gameplay streaming app, its Twitch rival. The app, which is initially available on Android with iOS arriving soon, was first introduced into beta testing this fall, with a focus on improvements to its overall user experience, content discovery, …
Read More »The One Shoulder Muscle You’re Neglecting
Photo: Ryan Kelly / Daily Burn 365 When you do shoulder or back exercises, chances are you’ll engage your rhomboids, traps and delts. But one crucial shoulder muscle you should also be working is your serratus anterior. “It gets its name from its serrated shape, like a knife blade, as …
Read More »First Triassic Horseshoe Crab Fossil Found in North America
A mostly complete and moderately well-preserved fossilized specimen is thought to represent the first Triassic horseshoe crab found in North America, according to a study published in the December 2017 issue of the journal Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie by paleontologist Dr. Allan Lerner from the New Mexico Museum …
Read More »Researchers Create Nanobionic Light-Emitting Plants
A team of scientists from the University of California and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has found a way to infuse plants with the luminescence of fireflies. The results appear in the journal Nano Letters. Plants infused with the luminescence of fireflies could help reduce our dependence on conventional …
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