Young people addicted to smart phones (iStock) Our phones — filled with emails to check, social media to scroll, and apps to open — are designed to keep us glued to them. It’s easy to get sucked in and find it difficult
Among the fastest-growing forms of cryptocurrency are stablecoins, which use blockchain technology like Bitcoin and ethereum. Stablecoins are distinct, though, because they are pegged to a government-backed currency, like the dollar, or to gold. With each digital token valued at, say, $1,
Pop quiz: How often do you need to restart your computer for best performance? Here’s a hint. If you only do it when your machine crashes or needs to update, that’s not enough. Tap or click for my recommendation for keeping your
Sky-gazers around most of the world will be able to glimpse the Geminid meteor shower this week. The Geminids, which appear to radiate from a point in the constellation Gemini, are currently active until Dec. 17 and peaked Tuesday morning, according to
The company that runs the philanthropy of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, is investing up to $3.4 billion to advance human health over 10 to 15 years, according to a spokesperson for the organization. GREATER GEORGIA DEMANDS ACCOUNTABILITY
NASA’s next laser communications mission will launch early Sunday morning. The Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) will lift off on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket during a two-hour window scheduled from 4:04 to 6:04 a.m. EST from Cape Canaveral Space
Fossils found in Chile are from a strange-looking dog-sized dinosaur species that had a unique slashing tail weapon, scientists reported Wednesday. Some dinosaurs had spiked tails they could use as stabbing weapons and others had tails with clubs. The new species, described
A scheduled spacewalk by NASA astronauts was postponed after the agency received a debris warning for the International Space Station (ISS). In a statement, NASA wrote that the notification of debris was received on Monday evening. NASA LAUNCHES SPACECRAFT TO CRASH INTO
The federal government is embarking on a new attempt to explain the unexplainable. The Defense Department is launching the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group, a unit that will be charged with finding and identifying UFOs in restricted airspace, officials said
NASA launched a spacecraft Tuesday night on a mission to smash into an asteroid and test whether it would be possible to knock a speeding space rock off course if one were to threaten Earth. The DART spacecraft, short for Double Asteroid
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, the world’s first planetary defense test mission, is scheduled to launch early Wednesday morning. The agency said the mission will help determine if intentionally crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid is an effective way to