NASA has awarded Maxar an estimated $142 million contract to demonstrate in-orbit spacecraft refueling and assembly of new components using a custom robotic platform in space.
Monthly Archives: January 2020
Apple’s “new” version of the app is less a rollout of fresh features than an important step toward the company's own mapping independence.
The Biggest Apple Maps Change Is One You Can’t See
More than a year and a half after wireless carriers were caught red-handed selling the real-time location data of their customers to anyone willing to pay for it, the FCC has determined that they committed a crime. An official documentation of exactly how these companies violated the law is forthcoming. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai shared […]
Carriers ‘violated federal law’ by selling your location data, FCC ...
Lip-syncing app Dubsmash was on the brink of death. After a brief moment of virality in 2015 alongside Vine (R.I.P), Dubsmash was bleeding users faster than it could recruit them. The app let you choose an audio track like a rap song or movie quote and shoot a video of you pretending to say the […]
How Dubsmash revived itself as #2 to TikTok
These WIRED-tested wearables reduce your reliance on a phone while keeping you connected.
9 Best Smartwatches (2024): Apple Watch, Wear OS, Hybrid Watches
The tricked-out litter box answers one of life's great questions: What if my kitty's toilet was a robot?
Litter-Robot 3 Connect Review: A Worthwhile But Pricey Cat Toilet
On this week’s show we talk about Vine's rebirth as Byte and the new Razr reboot, which now comes with (of course) a folding screen.
Gadget Lab Podcast: Byte Video Sharing, and Motorola’s Razr Reboot
Twitter has confirmed it has temporarily suspended the account of controversial rightwing commentator, Katie Hopkins. The move was reported earlier by the BBC. Hopkins, a former MailOnline columnist and presenter on LBC radio, is a veteran of the social media platform, joining Twitter just under a decade ago — and using it amplify her brand of […]
Twitter suspends notorious UK hate preacher for violating abuse rules
On the same day that a Mississippi family is suing Amazon -owned smart camera maker Ring for not doing enough to prevent hackers from spying on their kids, the company has rolled out its previously announced “control center,” which it hopes will make you forget about its verifiably “awful” security practices. In a blog post […]
Ring’s new security ‘control center’ isn’t nearly enough
Six-second video loops are finally back, but this time it has to compete with TikTok.