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SpaceX’s Endeavor capsule appears like a shooting star or ‘donut UFO’ over Louisiana and Alabama

A bright light streaked across the sky over parts of the southern U.S. on Monday evening that had some bystanders questioning if they saw a UFO. Instead, it was... read more

Peloton unveils $500 TV box with a camera one week after its stock collapsed 50 percent

Home workout company Peloton was founded in 2012 by CEO John Foley with his friends and co-founders Graham Stanton, Hisao Kushi, Tom Cortese, and Yony Feng. The... read more

Netflix takes on TikTok with a new feed for kids, report reveals 

Netflix takes on TikTok with a new feed for KIDS that features short video clips taken from its library of children’s content, report reveals Kids Clips uses ... read more

Tim Cook personally owns Bitcoin, but says tech giant won’t allow products to be bought with crypto

Apple CEO Tim Cook says he personally owns Bitcoin – but dismisses idea that tech company would allow products to be bought with cryptocurrency Apple CEO ... read more

Twitter rolls out its $2.99 a month subscription, ‘Blue,’ in the US, but users are not happy

Twitter officially rolled out its subscription service called Twitter Blue on Tuesday in the U.S. that charges users $2.99 monthly fee to access exclusive featu... read more

Sabre-toothed gorgons that lived before dinosaurs bit each other in the face to assert dominance

Sabre-toothed mammals the size of bears that lived on Earth between 300 and 250 million years ago attacked one another by biting the face, newly published resea... read more

Apple hires Tesla expert for its self-driving car project, report says

Apple has reportedly hired a former Tesla software expert – a strong indicator that work is still progressing on its long-awaited Apple Car. The Cupertino fir... read more

Art: Google launches Pet Portraits feature that shows you which famous painting your pet resembles

It’s worth doing a double take when you look at these images… They are photos of Tom Hiddleston, Olivia Colman and Samantha Cameron along with portr... read more

Comcast is DOWN across the US! Tens of thousands of users are experience a total blackout

Comcast goes DOWN! Tens of thousands of users suffer total blackout across internet, television and smartphone services Comcast is experiencing issues across th... read more

NASA space images for training algorithms are all fake – except one

Can YOU tell which is real? NASA reveals the fake space images used to train its astronomical algorithms – with just one of these 225 snaps showing a genuine ... read more

Geology: Earth’s first continents emerged from the ocean more than 3 BILLION years ago, study claims

Earth’s first continents emerged from the oceans around 3.3–3.2 billion years ago — at least 700 million years earlier than previously thought, a stud... read more

Vets reveal the dog breeds most affected by blood blisters of the ears

Vets have revealed the dog breeds most affected by aural haematoma, also known as a ‘blood blister of the ear’, a painful disease that may require t... read more

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter completes its 15th flight on Mars

It was originally designed to make the first powered flight on another world and follow it up with four more trips scything its way through the Martian air.  ... read more

Why the DJI Action 2 Is Your Best Choice

Action cameras are a useful tool for any adventure seeker. They capture what people see, from their perspective. There’s no better way to get an authentic... read more

Climate change: Fifteen times more people at risk of heat stress if temperatures rise by 3.6°F

Heat stress — a potentially fatal mix of warmth and humidity — will afflict fifteen times more people should global temperature rise exceed the 3.6°F (2Â... read more

3D-printed robot ‘ants’ can link up, complete complex tasks and call for help

Ants are among the most industrious creatures on Earth, so it’s only fitting that engineers would look to them for inspiration when designing small robots... read more

Climate change is causing record warming in the Great Lakes that will likely fuel lake effect snow

Climate change is causing record warming in the Great Lakes: Temperatures have SURGED at least 2 degrees above normal which will likely fuel lake effect snow to... read more

The brain can make a person sick by storing and retrieving past inflammations

Scientists have figured out that the brain’s insurlar cortex can make a person sick by storing and retrieving episodes of past inflammations throughout th... read more

Interstellar objects that accumulate like pebbles to form planets, study suggests 

Scientists are still unsure exactly how planets form, but interstellar objects may have played a role in constructing, a new study suggests. Researchers at the ... read more

Over 25,000 tonnes of ‘Covid plastic’ is in our oceans, study says

More than 25,000 tonnes of personal protective equipment (PPE) and other types of Covid-related plastic waste has entered Earth’s oceans, a new study esti... read more

Walmart is testing fully autonomous delivery trucks in Bentonville, Arkansas, hometown

Walmart has revealed it is using fully driverless trucks to bring groceries from a fulfillment center to one of its Arkansas supermarkets, in a move that will c... read more

Twitter is back online after an hour-long crash that hit worldwide

Twitter is back online after an hour-long crash that impacted the social media network’s website and app Twitter was down for about one-hour on Monday sta... read more

Ancient Earth was hit by rain storms hundreds of miles wide, study reveals 

Ancient Earth was hit by extreme ‘hothouse’ periods of intense dryness, followed by massive rainstorms, a new study reveals.  These rainstorms wer... read more

Protein switch lets ants achieve a ‘queen-like status’, study finds

Ants are able to switch from a worker to a ‘queen-like status’ thanks to a slight tweak in a single protein in their brain, a new study reveals. Bio... read more