Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Nelba Márquez-Greene wondered aloud what it would take to get Facebook to listen. Her 6-year-old daughter, Ana Grace, was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in 2012, and her family has […]
Daily Archives: July 19, 2018
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Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Nelba Márquez-Greene wondered aloud what it would take to get Facebook to listen. Her 6-year-old daughter, Ana Grace, was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in 2012, and her family has […]
This article originally appeared in the June 25, 2018 issue of SpaceNews magazine. New technologies, when first introduced, often get applied in traditional ways. For the last several years, aerospace companies have been examining ways to use additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, to aid the production of rocket engines. A […]
Get the Better newsletter. SUBSCRIBE What does summer sound like? For me, right now, it sounds like “I Like It,” the Billboard-topping single by Cardi B, Bad Bunny and J Balvin. It’s a ferocious beast of a pop song with blaring horns, sizzling lyrics, a boisterous Latin-influenced beat and an […]
Experts prepare to open an ancient sarcophagus in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. (Ministry of Antiquities via Facebook) More Egyptian archaeologists say they’ve opened up a mysterious black sarcophagus found during excavations in Alexandria, and although they didn’t uncover the evil curse that some feared, they did uncover an evil-looking […]
Get the Mach newsletter. SUBSCRIBE It was May 17, 2009, and Astronaut Michael Massimino was lapping Earth at 18,000 miles an hour, sweating up his spacesuit as he struggled to fix the ailing Hubble Space Telescope. A stripped bolt was stopping him from removing a handrail to get at a […]
Boycotts, backlashes and bad alien milking scenes have created a disturbance in the Force like never before. The Last Jedi has split Star Wars fans and left Lucasfilm and Disney in the unexpected position of have a major part of the core audience threatening boycotts of all future movies. The […]
The world’s biggest social media network is thinking rather small these days. On July 18, Facebook announced that it will start removing misinformation on its digital platforms that could spark violence. While the goal is global, the company will act on what it hopes are local community standards, relying on […]