Tensions between Barcelona and Madrid are escalating as the Spanish government prepares to impose direct rule to stop Catalonia breaking away. Catalonia’s regional authority today voted to declare independence in the wake of a recent independence referendum, which Madrid ruled was illegal. But why does Catalonia want independence so much? […]
Daily Archives: October 27, 2017
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James Martin/CNET So you want an iPhone X so much you’re willing to preorder the thing. The only question is where. If you choose Best Buy you’ll pay $1,099 up front for the cheapest, 64GB version on all three carriers. That’s $100 more than the exact same phone ordered from […]
View photos Puerto Rico has now endured the longest power failure in U.S. history, after Category 4 Hurricane Maria tore a path of destruction across the island on Sept. 20. One of the contracts the island’s beleaguered government signed in order to get the lights turned back on is with […]
This is the Instagram handle @RepublicanParty. It has more than four times the followers of the actual Republican Party. Alfred Ng/CNET On Election Day in 2016, a meme showed up on Instagram under the Republican Party name, with a picture of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton photoshopped into a garbage […]
This shrimp is anything but feebleGetty Images/iStockphoto By Aylin Woodward This reef ain’t big enough for the both of us. Two pistol shrimp face each other, each spreading open its giant snapping claw – nearly half the size of its body. One or both of them then snaps the claw […]
Headlight testing is one of the newest tricks in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s arsenal of vehicle assessments, and it’s still tripping up a number of automakers, including Volkswagen. The 2018 Volkswagen Tiguan was completely redesigned, and its latest iteration earned the IIHS Top Safety Pick accolade. In order […]
Window on the pastESA/Rosetta/NavCam By Shannon Stirone The famed “rubber duck” comet is revealing more about its past. It turns out that 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko probably did grow out of tiny pebbles, as many suspected – and this may help us learn more on how planets are built too. When the Rosetta […]