Facebook, founded by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is testing changes to its news feed. James Martin/CNET Facebook is testing a change that could be big for you, as well as publishers who rely on the social network to reach readers. The social network split its iconic news feed in two: one […]
Daily Archives: October 23, 2017
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Ninja Gaiden Black is one of the games that will be supported initially on Xbox One. GameSpot As promised, Xbox One backwards compatibility with original Xbox games will arrive this year. But the feature is coming much sooner than we expected, as the first games will arrive Tuesday, Oct. 24. […]
North Korea said Japan wants to take over the Korean peninsula to create a “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere”. Pyongyang released the paranoid warning in an editorial in a Pyongyang-based propaganda newspaper. The article said Japanese president Shinzo Abe triggered a snap election this autumn with the sole intention of […]
(WASHINGTON) —The American people and the fallen soldiers’ families deserve answers about a deadly ambush in the African nation of Niger, the top U.S. general said Monday, without being able to provide many himself. Three weeks after the attack by presumed ISIS forces, Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford, the Joint […]
Star Wars droid BB-8 finds love with astromech Ivee in the Marvel comic Poe Dameron #20. Marvel Can droids fall in love? We’ve seen Japanese robots marry each other in real life, but what about famous robots of sci-fi? Adorable Star Wars droid BB-8 — who was first introduced to […]
In another classic case of now-you-see-it, now-you-don’t, the entry-level Nokia 2 Android phone briefly appeared on retailer B&H’s website before being removed, according to Android Headlines. A search result for the white version of the phone was still available on Google at the time of writing: Looks like you’ll be […]
Companies love to claim that they’ve discovered the Next Big Thing in lithium-ion batteries, and Toshiba is the latest to jump on this wagon. Toshiba announced that its next-generation SCiB lithium-ion battery can take some serious abuse and charge at speeds that sound like pure science fiction. Using an anode […]
TAMPA, Fla. — Sitting outside a funeral home with his daughter’s ashes, Kenny Hoffa pleaded for information that would lead police to a shooter who may be responsible for a series of three seemingly random murders in Tampa. “There’s some psycho out there putting other people through this pain and […]
WASHINGTON — Google’s experimental high-altitude balloon project is using connectivity from O3b satellites to provide emergency communications in hurricane-ravished Puerto Rico. O3b owner SES said Oct. 23 that it is providing satellite capacity and a “rapidly deployable” O3b FastConnect terminal in order to connect Google Loons over Puerto Rico to […]
Two days after the news broke that Bill O’Reilly, the former Fox News host, settled a sexual harassment case for $32 million, O’Reilly said Monday that he regretted agreeing to the settlement and thinks that settling in general is a mistake. On Saturday, The New York Times reported that O’Reilly […]
That is the view of Sky Sports pundit and ex-England defender Stuart Pearce. Liverpool’s defence, in particular centre-back Dejan Lovren, has come under severe criticism of late. Lovren was arguably at fault for Tottenham’s first two goals in the 4-1 defeat at Wembley yesterday before being substituted after half an […]
The Saudi business mogul criticised the cryptocurrency’s lack of regulation and warned it was “Enron in the making” – a reference to the 2001 financial scandal in which investors lost billions of dollars. His comments come as new research revealed a flood of new hedge funds investing exclusively in digital […]
This is what a 2.8-metre storm surge didEmile Wamsteker/Bloomberg via Getty Images By Michael Le Page There’s good news and catastrophically bad news for New York City. The good news is that hurricanes might become more likely to miss the city over the next three centuries. This means that, relative […]
Don’t think too hardMarko Miladinovic/EyeEm/Getty By Jessica Hamzelou Ever realised you have driven yourself home but haven’t really been paying attention? Brain scans have revealed that when your mind wanders, it switches into “autopilot” mode, enabling you to carry on doing tasks quickly, accurately and without conscious thought. Our autopilot […]
After losing to Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open, Federer injured his knee making a bath for his children. The Swiss star underwent surgery in February and returned to tour a few months later but was far from fully fit. Following another slip later in the year at Wimbledon, Federer […]
‘I alone am entirely responsible for my moral failings.’ More Celebrity chef John Besh resigned from his own company Monday amid allegations that he enabled a culture of sexual harassment in his restaurants. Besh’s resignation comes just two days after more than 25 current and former Besh Restaurant Group employees […]
Now Playing: Watch this: 7 ways to watch movies online for free No money in the budget for a Netflix subscription? Or Amazon Prime? Fear not: As long as you have an internet connection, you can still enjoy movie night. Granted, you may not be able to stream Hollywood’s latest, […]
Photo credit: Akritasa/CC BY-SA 4.0 More From Popular Mechanics Every science fiction alien, whether it’s the cruel killers of War of the Worlds or the six-legged conversationalists of Arrival, shares one important thing in common. However unknowable they may seem-however “alien”-they are the product of human imagination. They are the […]
Alexander Mitsch said he wished the CDU had a leader like new Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, as he accused Mrs Merkel of dragging the party to the left. Mr Mitsch, the leader of a right-wing group within Mrs Merkel’s party, criticised her open-door immigration policy and said “new party leadership” […]
The future of President Donald Trump’s promised border wall lies in massive pieces in the California desert. NBC News got an early look at the eight nearly-finished prototypes, assembled near the existing fence along the U.S.-Mexico border miles outside San Diego, ahead of Thursday’s deadline for the sections to be […]