Facebook will shut down its spyware VPN app Onavo
Facebook will end its unpaid market research programs and proactively take its Onavo VPN app off the Google Play store in the wake of backlash following...
Watch SpaceX launch the first private moon landing mission (Update: Success!)
Update: Success! All payloads deployed successfully. Now we just have to wait on that moon landing… Calling all lunatics — the first fully private moon landing...
Turns Out, the Star Wars Movies Sure Do Mention ‘The Force’ a Lot
After all, it does surround us and penetrate us. It binds the galaxy together. So it stands to reason that if you took every Star Wars...
Podcasting startup WaitWhat raises $4.3M as interest in audio content explodes
WaitWhat, the digital content production engine behind LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman’s Masters of Scale podcast, has secured a $4.3 million Series A investment led by Cue Ball...
Japanese Spacecraft Hayabusa2 Touches Down on Asteroid Ryugu
The Japanese Hayabusa2 spacecraft has completed one of its most exciting challenges yet: On Thursday evening, it touched down on the asteroid Ryugu, fired a tantalum...
Sunsama’s $10/month task management calendar cleans up your online productivity
I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve heard friends lament how difficult it is to find a decent calendar app. The stock calendar apps...
The Hit Chinese Sci-Fi Film The Wandering Earth Is Coming to Netflix
We’ll now get a chance to see China’s science fiction smash, The Wandering Earth, based on a short story by Hugo-winning author Liu Cixin. Netflix has...
The US Has a Higher Overdose Death Rate Than Any Other Wealthy Nation
The U.S. is in the middle of a devastating drug overdose crisis, one led by opioid-related deaths. But new research out of the University of Southern...
Confirmed: Hawaii’s False Missile Alert Scared the Shit Out of Everyone
Last January, Hawaiians got the scare of a lifetime when they woke up to emergency alerts on their phones advising them to seek shelter due to...
