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After more than seven years of travelling across the solar system, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has finally reached the last part of its mission which involves orbiting the dwarf planet Ceres and sending back images and data. Perhaps the most interesting thing about Dawn, however, is that rather tha
BlackBerry may be known for its smartphones with physical keyboards but that doesn’t mean the company doesn’t dabble in all-touch devices every now and then. The latest such device from BalckBerry is the BlackBerry Leap, which just arrived at the FCC in order to receive approval for a No
Starting earlier this month, United States Customs and Border Protection began a new initiative at the Dulles International Airport in Washington DC which required random Americans entering the country to get their picture taken as part of a new program that’s supposed to weed out impostors th
Urban heat islands, for those of you who aren’t familiar, is where pollution from tons of people living together in a dense area, such as a major city, causes that area to be hotter than the surrounding area. While fossil fuel-burning cars aren’t the only cause, they’re one of the
Considering how much people loved last year’s HTC One (M8), people had high expectations for the successor to HTC’s flagship this year. Now that the initial reviews are coming in we can finally see if HTC managed to meet those expectations and… well… kinda. The biggest proble
Startups are essentially breeding grounds for innovation, with companies like Airbnb and Uber revolutionizing their respective industries. As always, these startups are in a constant battle with regulators who want to limit or prevent the kind of change that the companies bring, particularly local r
The launch of the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge is looking to be Samsung’s biggest smartphone launch to date. According to a Taiwanese research firm, Samsung will sell somewhere around 55 million units of its flagship smartphone this year, quite a bit more than similar estimates from DRAMeXchange. Thi
Streaming is quickly becoming the dominant form of accessing music and the music industry isn’t very happy about that. More precisely, big labels like Universal Music Group aren’t fond of the freemium model that services like Spotify have implemented which allow users to listen to music
With the second anniversary of the Snowden leaks coming up, how has the way we used Internet changed in that time? According to research from Pew Research Center, around 1/3 of adults in the United States who learned about the NSA’s surveillance programs have taken at least one step to protect
TechCrunch is calling this new move from Amazon the “Amazon Prime for Apps” and that’s a pretty accurate description. According to the website, Amazon Unlock could potentially undercut the entire app market for Android by adding a new section to Amazon’s own app store that of
It doesn’t look like any tech company is safe from the explosion of gender discrimination lawsuits in Silicon Valley right now, not even Twitter. Hot on the heels of Facebook’s own legal issues, Twitter may be facing a lawsuit of its own courtesy of Tina Huang, a former employee who clai
For a decade, the SXSW music festival has offered thousands of tracks from various artists free of DRM. While the method of releasing all of these songs has differed from year to year, SXSW opted to release freely available MP3 files for this year’s festival and left it to the community to con
