March 22, 2019 Uber marches toward an IPO in 2019 Uber is doubling down on transportation as it prepares to go public in 2019. The company’s CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, said Tuesday that he plans…
March 17, 2019 More Americans taking a break from — or breaking up with — Facebook Americans are getting more cautious with Facebook, a new study says. Forty-four percent of younger users, aged 18 to 29, have deleted the Facebook…
March 11, 2019 Iran accuses Twitter of shutting down legitimate accounts Iran’s government has accused Twitter of closing accounts belonging to ‘real’ Iranians while allowing anti-government bots to flourish. The charges were leveled Sunday in…
March 8, 2019 Smile! Goats prefer happy people, study finds The next time you encounter a goat, be sure to smile at it. We all know dogs are good at reading our moods, but…
January 11, 2019 Elon Musk Tesla still orbiting one year after SpaceX launch One year ago, on Feb. 6, SpaceX blasted a Falcon Heavy rocket into space and sent Elon Musk’s personal Tesla roadster off on…
December 27, 2018 NASA’s next mission will look at ‘fingerprints’ of the early universe NASA has selected the next mission in space agency’s Explorers Program and it’s going to give us a glimpse of the ancient past. The…
November 27, 2018 Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul Allen dies at 65 Paul Allen, an entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist who helped usher in the personal computer era when he co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates, has died….
November 20, 2018 Why decaying Higgs bosons and the quarks they create matter This week particle physicists working with the Large Hadron Collider have observed the Higgs boson decaying into bottom quarks for the first time….
October 14, 2018 Mysterious Planet Nine hiding beyond Neptune might not be a planet at all Out past Neptune, something weird is happening to the orbits of a bunch of space rocks circling the sun. Something, scientists believed, that could…
October 6, 2018 WhatsApp co-founder: ‘I sold my users’ privacy’ with Facebook acquisition WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton became a multibillionaire when Facebook bought his messaging app in 2014 for an eye-popping 2 billion. But it’s a decision…
