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(Photo: Gabrielle Henderson/Unsplash)In an effort to mitigate the harmful mental effects of its app, Instagram will soon begin “nudging” teenage users away from content they continually focus on.  The feature will roll out beginning this month to users in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. …

When you look up at the night sky, do you wonder about what’s out there? Most of the stars we can see with the naked eye reside within our own galaxy. And now we know a lot more about them. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia mission has just announced …

Supersonic travel hasn’t been a reality for even the most well-off individuals since the Concorde was retired almost 20 years ago, but a company called Venus Aerospace wants to make super-fast passenger planes a reality again. Its proposed Stargazer aircraft will blow right past supersonic into the realm of hypersonic …

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is on the verge of beginning its science operations, so the recent news that it has suffered a micrometeoroid impact is concerning. The space observatory is the long-awaited successor to Hubble, and it could serve as our window to the wider universe for the …

Perseverance has been on Mars for more than a year, beaming back pictures from the Red Planet all the while. We’ve seen Jezero Crater itself, along with thousands of shots of the Martian landscape and sky. Perseverance also takes periodic selfies, to check its condition and calibrate its sensors. But …

As NASA’s Artemis program continues working toward landing humans on the moon for the first time in decades, most of the focus is on the vehicles that will get them there. That’s only one part of the engineering necessary to return us to the moon. NASA also needs a new …

  The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been in space for about six months, which is just a fraction of the time NASA spent designing and building it. All that effort is about to pay off, though. Webb will begin science operations this summer, and some of its first …

Dating platform Bumble is looking to enhance its non-dating social features with a further investment into its Bumble BFF feature, first launched in 2016. This friend-finding feature currently uses the same swiped-based mechanics to connect people looking for platonic relationships but will soon expand to include social networking groups where …

At Computex today AMD unveiled a new mobile platform that takes its older Zen 2 architecture and reworks it as a mainstream laptop platform with an emphasis on long battery life, connectivity, and affordability. AMD calls this mobile platform Mendocino, and it’s expected to launch in Q4 of 2022. It …

NASA launched Voyager 1 and 2 in 1977 on a mission to explore the outer solar system. The mission has run much longer than anyone expected, but 45 years is a long time for a piece of hardware exposed to the harsh environment of deep space. Therefore, it’s not a …